MAGAZINE CODE AND CONVENTIONS

1. Codes:
The different variations of purple
suggest to me this is a music and
fashion based magazine, it comes
across very beauty centred but
also centred around the ideal
image of a pop artist.
The colour scheme of this
magazine highlights the ideal pop
theme, it illustrates quite young
colours which would connect
exclusively with teenagers and
young adults.
The purple hair is trying to
project feminine beauty with
unusual attention from a
different type of target audience.
Conventions:
The famous artist on the front
cover idealises the magazine
to be about her and her fame
or her upcoming events or
albums within the music
industry.
The pose which the artist is
taking suggests a seduction
sort of attitude, almost as if
she is projecting her
behaviour to be quite
sexualised.

2. Codes:
Pink is usually a code for
feminine or Romance, usually
associated with love. In this
case it would be for
something feminine as the
main image is female and will
feature in the magazine,
ideally about her music or
her fashion. This image is
quite a natural design with
the sculptured flowers
surrounding her figure.
Conventions:
The main image is over the
masthead but we can still
recognise the name of the
magazine as it is quite important
and you can tell what company it
is as it is a distinctive title.
The artists name is bold and big
within the margin of the
magazine, highlighting an
important amount of the
magazine is about her.

3. Codes:
The different variations of
light neutral colours
within this imagery
suggest a light nature to
the music and fashion
within this magazine,
almost highlighting her as
very angelic and her
beauty as the ideal
femininity you would see
within a young lady.
Conventions:
The use of this girl on the
magazine, suppresses the idea
that she’s not only on their for
her beauty but her natural
angelic look. The added black
tones onto the magazine keep
the colour scheme very faint
with a clash of tone, the black
and the neautral yellow creates
a personality for the magazine.