Generic

Conventions of a

Magazine

Haleema Ali

Types of Magazines

•Teen

•Lifestyle

•Health

•Kids

•Gossip

•School

•Fashion

•Sports

•Music

Magazine

Covers

Magazine

Cover

Analyzed

I think that the colours contrast very well because it’s not too babyish it’s formal

and nice at the same time. The fonts used are suitable and stand out. People

would read them and then know what it’s all about, so it is good advertisement. I

think the title is very big and normally in other magazines the singer/actress

overlaps the title which I don’t think is very suitable. I think it’s better if the whole

title is showing.

The target audience for Vogue

are women in their late twenties

to thirties. They read it because

of the fashion tips, what’s all the

new gossip about. So it mainly

attract women because a man

would not really care about girl

fashion

The Purpose is to show the

target audience about the new

fashion and has tips. Also they

have actresses and singers on

the cover so they talk about

them which people would be

interested in. The actress

shown is called Emma Stone.

The masthead ‘Vogue’ stays

the same; the font and writing

style don’t change. Sometimes

they change the colour for the

person who is being advertised

and what they are wearing so it

contrasts.

They have different writing styles and

font’s size to make it look attractive.

The fonts used are mainly Italic and

bold. The font size is approximately

from 12-36. Also the colours used

for the text in this magazine are,

pink, black and white and they do

contrast. It also looks very

professional.

School Magazine Covers

School

Magazine Cover

Analyzed

The title stands out

as the background of

the cover, is black

and it is white which

highlights. Has the

largest font.

The font style

stays the same

throughout the

whole page. It

probably would

stay this way

with the whole

magazine as it

looks original

There are not many

colors used. Too

many would make it

look childish and I

think it should stay

the same way

through the whole

magazine

There is one main image at the

bottom of the page, takes up about a

third of the page.

Contents

page

Analyzed

Images: There are five images used in this contents page. Four of these are the same size and slightly overlap each other and are going down in a column. I think they look interesting and make me want to read into the magazine more. The pictures were taken outside; they all go in well together. There has been a kind of shadow effect used in the images for them to stand out.

The background contains an image of student’s outdoors. It’s been brightened so that we can see the text.

Colour: Important information would be highlighted. The title and date are coloured in red which I think is a good idea, main information has been shown easily even though the date is at the bottom of the page. The text is in black which is really good as it looks formal and I think if there was more colourused in the text, it would look childish. Especially as it is a school contents page.

Fonts and Font size: The title has the largest font size to stand out, but being a contents page it does not need to be as large as the front cover title. I think 40 would be the largest font size. This example of a contents page font size looks about 36. The text underneath the title has to be normal size to look formal but not to look boring. Sub headings would be about 14-20 and the text with them, about 12-14. The text can’t be too crowded as it looks boring and no one would bother to read it. A good thing to do is use paragraphs to space all the different sections out. The text throughout the whole page has the same font, some put in bold and some not. The content page should not have much information, just the sub headings of what the magazine will contain.

My School

Magazine Cover

and Contents

page

My magazine cover

I created my own school

magazine cover

Masthead- Stands out

the most. It looks a lot

more effective as the girls

clothing is blue and

black.

Subheadings I didn’t

want it to look plain

and boring and the

colors in the

background of the

image go well with

them.

Image used as

background. The place

in which the 9image

was took was the

library as it seems

educational.

The school’s slogan

beneath masthead. It did

not need to stand out as

much as the title.

My contents Page

For the school magazine

In my contents page I

decided to use two

columns

Important information

needs to stand out, used

BOLD text for the date

and title.

Two images, one in

each column

I took this picture, it’s of

the head teacher in her

office working. I took this

as it links to the

contents.

I took this picture of

the school walk

because its

recognizable to

students.

The text and title are

in dark blue as I

wanted it to link to

the front cover.

The heading ‘Contents Page’ has the largest

font size as people would clearly be aware of

the page purpose.