CONVENTIONS OF

MAGAZINES

By Rukayyah Robun

CONTENTS

Headlines and masthead

Images

Buttons

House style

Thumbnails

HEADLINES AND MASTHEAD

In a typical magazine the editors will use a short and memorable title usually to capture the target audiences attention. This gives a corporate Identity to the magazine, and is located at the top of the page and carries the same design In each issue. This is to keep the identity of the magazine and make it so even after the image that covers the page grabs the readers attention they can still identify the magazine.

IMAGES

On the front cover the image is usually large and the subject is clearer visible and surrounded by representations of them to make them more recognisable. Normally there is eye contact between the subject to the camera. The image must always fit with the content of the magazine and must follow the same colour scheme as the house style lf the magazine.

BUTTONS

These are a circular graphic that may contain the price of special offers within the magazine.

This number would intregue the audience.

HOUSE STYLE

The specific usage and editing conventions followed by writers and editors to ensure stylistic consistency in a particular publication or series of publications.

"House style is not a reference to the canard that an entire magazine can be made to sound as if it were written by one writer”.

THUMBNAILS

Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. Thumbnail is a term used by graphic designers and photographers for a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images. For example, software that lets you manage a number of images often provides a miniaturized version of each image so that you don't have to remember the file name of each image.