Front cover and contents page sketch

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Codes and Conventions of a magazine contents page

• A couple of images
• Numbers of pages
• Limited colour pallet
• All have a website link
• All have a date on
• About four different fonts on each one
• Use graphics/block colour to break it up
• 3-7 different pictures on
• Have a big paragraph about main story
• All have some way of contacting the magazine
• All have information about pictures
• The pitcures have a page number on
• Letter from editor
• Direct address in images
• Split ito 3 columns
• Picture of editor

What are they there for?
To help the reader find what they want to read.
Organised in sections

Magazine front cover analysis

What do these magazines have in common?



'New'

'Good housekeeping'

'Womans home'

'Hello'

'Doctor who'

• All have a central image-mid shot or long shot or celebs using direct address
• Titles are all block fonts
• All have sub headings and sub titles
• All have bar codes on borderline
• Colours of 'Hello' represent Union Jack
• Colours of 'Womans home' represent girly colours
• Colours are different- limited colour pallet
• Use basic shapes such as square and circle
• Masthead (title) at the top
• All got date
• Cover lines-stories 3-7
• Masthead font is unique.. use 2-3 fonts
• Biggest story matches image