The document discusses the common codes and conventions used on magazine covers. It notes that magazine covers typically feature a masthead in a unique font, a celebrity endorsement, cover lines describing the magazine's contents, a limited color scheme, barcodes, positioning statements indicating the magazine's genre or target audience, and splashes of bold color or images. The positioning of these design elements is also standardized, seeking to attract readers' attention through the prominent placement of the masthead, cover lines, celebrity photos, and other graphics.

1. Codes and Conventions of a
magazine cover
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2. Codes And Conventions:
Masthead-unique font to any others on the page
A celebrity on the front cover
Cover lines
Colour scheme
Limited fonts
Barcode
A specific genre
Positioning statements
Splash
One coloured background
Banners

3. Bold Masthead
Celebrity is using
direct mode of
address
Plain, simple
background
which does not
distract from
the main
image.
Cover lines which
usually tell us what
information is in the
magazine.
Theme- fashion
magazine;
“shoes & bags”
Splash

4. Celebrity
indorsement -
direct mode of
address
Positioning
statement
Barcode
Date
issued
Cover line
drawing the
reader in.
Bold masthead

5. Splash
Bold masthead-
unique font
Positioning
statement
Clearly aimed at a
certain target
audience. Designed to
appeal to parents.
Barcode
Cover
lines
Date issued
The colour scheme
is green and yellow
with the font in red
which stands out.