Media codes and conventions of a Magazine cover
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Media: Codes and Conventions of Magazine Covers H/W Sameenah Ahmed Friday 18 th September 2015 The singer, Taylor Swift is featured on this issue of Billboard Magazine. She’s the main image of the front cover and is in black and white. The lack of colour in the main image makes it stand out even more because it contrasts the pops of bright yellow in the font The masthead is behind the model allowing the main focus on her. The placement of the masthead is conventional because it’s at the top centre of the magazine. Some of the text is fitted around the masthead which doesn’t clutter the bottom half of the front cover. The cover line is ‘TAYLOR SWIFT GROWS UP IN PUBLIC’. This relates to the main image and it tells the reader this is the main article for the magazine. The colour scheme is fairly simple the only colours used, apart from black and white are yellow and blue. The colour yellow is more prominent against black and white. Yellow connotes sunshine and Sameenah Ahmed 1
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Media: Codes and Conventions of Magazine CoversH/W Sameenah Ahmed Friday 18th September 2015
The singer, Taylor Swift is featured on this issue of Billboard Magazine. She’s the main image of the front cover and is in black and white. The lack of colour in the main image makes it stand out even more because it contrasts the pops of bright yellow in the font
The masthead is behind the model allowing the main focus on her. The placement of the masthead is conventional because it’s at the top centre of the magazine. Some of the text is fitted around the masthead which doesn’t clutter the bottom half of the front cover.
The cover line is ‘TAYLOR SWIFT GROWS UP IN PUBLIC’. This relates to the main image and it tells the reader this is the main article for the magazine.
The colour scheme is fairly simple the only colours used, apart from black and white are yellow and blue. The colour yellow is more prominent against black and white. Yellow connotes sunshine and happiness as well optimism.
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There is a range of different font styles which helps distinguish between different cover lines
The colour pink connotes femininity and sweetness. It can also suggest life because the colour of flowers are associated with pink
The cover line is written along the centre of the image, this is unconventional for a music magazine cover. It’s unconventional because the cover lines are usually along the edges of the magazine.
The singer, Lana Del Ray, is looking into the distance- this is called indirect mode of address. Indirect mode of address can either imply a disconnection with the reader or mystery
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This magazine cover for ‘Billboard’ is quite generic. The background is a plain bubblegum pink that ties in with Katy Perry’s persona. It also makes the black writing stand out and relates to Katy’s extremely girly image.
The colours in this issue are very loud although only black and pink are used (apart from the signature blue and yellow in the masthead.
The main cover line says ‘Katy Perry’ which lets the reader know who’s on the cover of the magazine.
The ‘flash’ shows an insight of what’s included in the magazine. This appeals to the consumer to purchase it.
