Friday, 30 September 2011

Conventions of magazine layout

Masthead tiltle piece - The magazine's title. Usually displayed in the top left corner
Price - Magazine cost
Date - Weekly: usually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly: a month ahead
Issue Number - A tally of magazines
Barcode - Read electronically and decoded into usable information
Teaser - One word/phase acts as an attention grabber (cover lines)
Main Feature: Headline - A phrase that may summeries the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, blod colours in order to catch the attention of the reader
Subtitle - Smaller headline that may summarise the feature
Images - Size: CU to med CU. Ranges from one main image to x amount featuring one main inage and smaller images. Helps make the page look more interesting. It can add understanding of a story and/or entice someone to read the magazine.
Font - Style and size of type face
Colour - Specific/stylistic/thematic types
Graphics - Graphical shapes to highlight feature(s)
Offers/advert blurb - Banner-style shape featuring free products/promotions
Left third - the left thired of the magazine where the position of the headlins and major stories are
Sell lines - Brand identity/tag line
Splash - Looks like a splash
Credit - credit for the photographer
Kicker - leads you in
Teller - carries on the story (explains)
Skyline - headline above title/banner
Flash - like splash/graphic
Graphyology - art of using graphics includes, colour, light ect
Anchorage - explains image caption
Vocabulary - words used on the magazine/ relevent to magazine
Screamers - exclemation mark/ text you would shout!!!!!
Images - relevent to magazine and title

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