Codes and Conventions Of a Magazine

1. Codes and Conventions of
a magazine.
By Danielle Niccolls.

2. Masthead and strap line
• Masthead-
Displays the name of the magazine, it
normally goes from left to right and at the top of
the magazine. A line of type on the front page of
a newspaper or the cover of a periodical giving
the name of the publication.
Strapline-
Allows the reader to find out more
about the main article in the magazine.

3. Barcode
• Barcode-
Allows the shop keeper to scan it and find out
the price and what the object is, each barcode is
different depending on what the product is.a series of
lines of varying width, printed, as on a container or
product, that can be read by an optical scanner to
determine charges for purchases, destinations for
magazines, etc.
• Strapline-
Allows the reader to find out more about the
main article in the magazine.

4. Website.
• A website is used to allow the reader
to go online and find out more about
the magazine itself and the articals in
the magazine.

5. Subline.
• These allow the reader to have sneak
peeks of what will be included in the
article apart from just the main article,
it also displays to the reader that if
they don’t like the main celebrity they
might like what else is inside therefore
getting a wider audience.

6. Colour scheme, puffs and
buzzwords.
• colour scheme of 3-4 colours is
normally on the front of magazines.
• Puffs are extra details in a bubble.
• Buzzwords are words used to intrigue
the audience eg. FREE or NEW.

7. Price and Pugs.
• If it is a very popular magazine there
will be many more issues
• Fake page curls.

8. Masthead
Strap line
Barcode
Website
Subline
Simple
colour
scheme
Price, issue
number and
date
Puff