Generic Conventions of Magazine Covers
- Barcode/price/website/issue number + date
- Headline in large font – overlapping image
- Cover stories advertised with small photographs
- Headline quotes from main article
- Free gifts and competitions advertised
- Questions to invite audience to read on
- Brand promotion
- Image overlaps title
- Different sections of page dedicated to advertising
- 3D effect
- Busy background
- Main image is often cropped
- Large, contrasting fonts
Generic Conventions of Contents Pages
- Pages listed in columns
- Same colours used on front cover
- Same text styles used to achieve cohesion
- Pictures
- Brand identity
- Page numbers – main stories in bold/larger
- Divided into features/reviews different categories
- Letter from the editor
- Themed ^ addresses target audience ^ letter will be themed ^ signature (personal touch)
- How to subscribe – interaction
- Competitions
- Website
- List of stockists
- Title/logo/issue number/date/headers + footers
Conventions of a Double Page Spread
- Columns
- Headers footers
- Pull quotes
- Cohesion
- Paragraph
- Nature of photograph – large image on the left side of the magazine/overlapping to the right of the page into the text.
- Borders – create a sense of cohesion by creating a border over the gutter.
- Size of font/ word count
- Contrasted
- No negative space
- Capital Letters
- Headline
- Gutter
- Drop cap
- Image captions
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