All magazines have different house styles, but most magazines follow the same conventions. These need to be followed when making my magazine because the magazines I have studied are successful and going against these conventions could prove difficult and not be successful.
These are some of the conventions of a front cover:
- Title- this is a word or short phrase that sums up the magazine and is easily recognised by the target audience.
- Sell Line- these are positioned differently depending on the house style and the layout of the magazine.
- Image- there is always one main image that is usually connected to the biggest sell line. Sometimes there are other images on the front cover that are related to the other sell lines.
- Barcode- this is very small and usually in a discrete position along with the issue number and the price.
- Boost- most magazine use their main headline as their boost. Whilst other will use the advertising of a free gift as there boost.
- Background- this is usually a plain background so it doesn't distract from the other content of the front cover. It is simple and easy to replicate.
- Colour Scheme- this is generally a 4 part colour scheme.
These are some of the conventions of a double page spread:
- Title and billboard- these are at the top of the page and mainly spread across the double page.
- Image- this image is typically quite large and in magazines I have looked at they occupy a page of the article.
- Pull out quote- generally used in all magazine articles to attract the readers attention to particular parts of the article or make them read the whole article.
- Colour scheme- the colours used are not randomly selected they are generally part of a 4 or 3 part colour scheme, which makes the article more coherant. It seems the more unusual the older the audience the more simple the colour scheme.
- Captions- all the images usually have captions on them, so the audience feel as though they can relate to person featured in the article
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