Thursday, 29 September 2011

Conventions of the front page of a magazine.

Left third: Graphics that take up the left third of the screen. The masthead and sell lines are both placed in this third so when the magazine is on a magazine shelf you can see the name of the it and the stories that will feature in the magazine.

Mast head title piece: it's the name of the magazine, usually placed in the left third section of the magazine in the top corner.

Cover lines: A caption on a magazine cover.

Bar code: Read electronically and decoded into usable information.

Price: Magazine cost.

Date: Weekly: usually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly: a month ahead.

Issue number: A tally of magazines

Teaser: One word/Phrase acts as an attention grabber.

Main Feature: Headline: A phrase that may summarise the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader.

Subtitle: Smaller headline that may summarise the feature.

Smaller feature: Features included in the magazine

Images: Size: CU to med CU. Ranges from one main image to x amount featuring one main image 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/adverts Blurb: Banner-style shape featuring free products/promotions.

Splash: The full image on the front of a magazine is called a splash.

Credit: Who wrote the article

Kicker: The kicker is a short phrase found set above the headline. Usually set in a smaller type than the headline

Teller: Like a sub-heading

Skyline: Line above the masthead

Graphology: The handwriting

Anchorage: News story.

Vocabulary: The words used on/in the magazine

Screamers: Screamers appear on the front page, because the idea is to entice consumers into buying the newspaper or magazine to read what's inside.

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