All magazines will contain typical codes and conventions. In all magazines there will be a similarity between the front cover, contents page and the feature pages. You will stereotype a magazine from what is featuring on and in it. This allows readers to adapt to the style and allows the audience to pick a magazine style that appeals to them. Colours, text style and image will all affects the brand identity of a magazine to readers.
A front cover of a magazine will generally feature a masthead, a main picture, and the main featuring articles. These basic outlines will help me when I will be making my magazine. It will allow me to create the magazine easily; I will know colour combinations that will suit the magazine and what will look right, suiting my target audience.
When making a magazine the masthead is always located in the top left hand corner reading across the page. The main image will be centralized; the person featuring in the image will normally be looking straight into the camera lens to create a strong image, as if they are creating eye contact with readers. The front cover artist for my music magazine will also need to suit the genre of the magazine I am trying to create. The colour and typography will need to be adapted to suit the style too.
Codes and conventions that are included in a magazine are there to insure that there is a formality between issues; I will use codes and conventions so that my music magazine and a real style music magazine will have similar features. If I were not to use a formality then readers wouldn’t be able to identify my style of magazine.
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