My Mock up magazine

This is my mock up magazine. I'm going to change the cover picture and maybe change the layout, but this is basically an outline of what it will look like. I have used the dark blue colours as this is on the theme of the school I am using, the school uniform is navy blue. I have called my magazine ethos as its all about community and aspirations which hopefully people will be able to relate to.

School Magazine Conventions

 

This is a school magazine that I have annotated. I have identified the conventions and they are different from a normal magazine. they do not contain a bar code or a price. The cover model of the front is not someone famous but a school girl. They target audience of a school magazine is different to a more mainstream one like cosmopolitan.

Cosmopolitan conventions

Cosmopolitan is a classic ladies magazine for woman to relate to and enjoy reading. It is high up in the magazine industry and is very popular with woman. I chose this magazine because I like the style of the cover and it makes you feel like you are being specifically spoken to by the writer with "love your body" written in bold.

Conventions of magazine

Conventions of a Magazine

Today in class I learnt all the definition's of the conventions of a magazine

The masthead is the name of the magazine which is always displayed at the top. It is always carefully picked in colour and font which will then help sell the magazine and give an indication to the audience what its going to be about.

Another thing I learnt was what a tag line was. A tag line goes next to the masthead and it shows what the magazine is about or who's it aimed at, slightly like a slogan for the magazine. This is not on all magazines, for example cosmopolitan because it’s a famous magazine which everyone knows about so it doesn’t necessarily need one

The central image on the front cover is on of the mist important parts. Its there to catch the readers eyes before they read anything. It will be always relevant to the magazines purpose and audience. A lot can be denotated (direct meaning) and conotated (an idea associated)  from the image.

A cover model will be used on the front cover of a lot of magazines. It is normally a celebrity or a well known person which is connected to the magazines genre, or it can be a photographic model like a car. As an example a magazine that’s aimed for men, may have a pretty looking woman as the cover model doing a seductive pose and wearing not many clothes, this would be linked to the content aside and appeal to the buyer.

Anchorage is the term in which images are referred to. The images are anchored by captions explaining the picture, this could be a cover line, article and headlines. This helps give the image meaning and helps the reader understand the significance.

Secondary images are sometimes placed on a magazine to promote features inside and they are usually anchored by a cover line

Cover lines are put at various points in the front cover. It tells the readers about the content inside the magazine and what articles they will find. To catch people’s attention they will often use language and presentational devices to be more effective.

 The mode of address refers to the way that magazines connect with the readers. Some use direct mode of address which is communicating with individual readers (through the cover model) or use of 2^nd person (you)

A puff helps draw attention and promote a certain element in the magazine. There normally positioned against a strong colour and are shaped. Regularly they advertise a freebie or a special feature.

 Pugs are positioned on the top corners of a magazine on the front cover. They display a promotion from the magazine or the price.

A Barcode, the price and edition all need to be placed on the front cover carefully. The barcode shouldn’t cover any important features and the price is always typically places nearby. How the edition is formulated depends how frequently its published. Most magazines are released monthly and so the month and year will be stated.

Use of colour in a magazine adds great affect. Some magazines change the colour scheme each editions, theirs keep the same colours to coordinate the central image.

Font choices are displayed in a varieties and are usually adapted to infer meaning to the text they’re displaying

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First Blog

This is my first blog that I've made which is going to be for my AS coursework for Media. Hopefully making a blog will be more fun than writing essays like I am doing for other subjects.