Friday, 2 October 2015

Summary of conventions


Keywords featured on a front cover, contents page and double page spread:

  • Masthead: title used to make readers familiar to the magazine they are reading.
  • Main image: used to show person(s) or object that's linked to the main article.
  • Sell line: headline below masthead to inform viewers of content inside magazine.
  • Plug: promotion,logo or freebie in magazine to draw in audience
  • Tag: word or phrase to engage reader into a story eg Exclusive.
  • Barcode, issue number, date and price
  • Skyline and footer: stripes below and above magazine to give extra information, mostly interesting parts of the magazine.
  • Drop-cap: first letter in an article that is usually bigger or different then rest of text
  • In-house: Trademarks of the magazine eg colour scheme
  • Slug: trademark logo for paticular sections eg reviews have a different slug to interviews
  • End marker: fancy full stop at the end of an article.
  • Pull quotes: enlarged quotes

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