Magazine Research: Conventions

To start this project, I began researching the conventions of a magazine. Conventions are the different aspects of a magazine, specifically on the inside and the cover(s). For this post, I focused in on the conventions present on a cover.

Some of the conventions I learned through my research were:
- Masthead: The title of the magazine, tending to be "eye-catching"
- Tagline: Shows the focus of the magazine
- Coverlines: Shows what's inside the magazine
- Central image: Main image of the cover, used to draw the reader in
- Cover model: Person, often a celebrity, on the front cover of a magazine.
- Color scheme: The different uses of colors on the magazine cover.
- Header: A line or lines that gives readers more information about the magazine's content as a whole.
- Edition: The specific time (eg. month) a magazine was published.
- Tags: Words used to attract a reader's attentions, such as "NEW" or "EXCLUSIVE"
- Barcode: Often put in corners of magazines in a non-obstructive position.

In the following image, I identified some of the conventions of a Sports Illustrated cover from the summer of 2014:

REFERENCES:

• Liddell, J. (2016, April 29). Codes and Conventions of Magazines. Retrieved October 4, 2019, from https://www.slideshare.net/JordanLiddell/codes-and-conventions-of-magazines-61504976.
• Bostan, S. (2010, November 12). The Codes & Conventions of a Magazine. Retrieved October 4, 2019, from https://www.slideshare.net/SundasBostan/the-codes-conventions-of-a-magazine.