The document discusses conventions used in magazines such as mastheads, taglines, fonts and colors to create familiarity and target audiences. It provides examples of conventions for front covers, contents pages and articles. The masthead is placed at the top of pages and covers feature celebrities related to the magazine's topic. Contents pages list subheadings and images while articles use large headlines, images of subjects and are formatted in columns for readability. The document includes an example student cover, contents page and article applying these conventions.

1. Introduction to forms and conventions
Most media products follow forms and conventions that give the magazine
familiarity amongst it’s readers. Also they help to target the intended audience.
These conventions include;
• A Masthead
• A Tagline
• Sell Lines
• Familiar fonts
• Same colours used over
Conventions also help a magazine get recognized as it will usually have a familiar
look to it every issue. For example, the masthead in the same place or the same
font for the masthead and sell lines.

2. Conventions of Front Covers
As you can They each have
see, they all have matching
the masthead colours all
placed at the top across the front
of the page. This page. This
is the first thing creates a sense
the audience of familiarity to
see’s and let’s the
them know what audience, this
they’re looking at. is known as
House Style.
They all have a main image of a celebrity or someone that is related
to the topic of the magazine. This again makes the audience
interested as they will usually know the person on the cover and will
like them.

3. My Front Cover
Masthead is placed at Strapline placed below
the top of the page to the masthead. Gives the
draw attention. audience a better idea
of what the magazine is
about.
Main Image is large and Three fonts are used
attracts the attention of and the same colours
the audience. Cover line (Red and Black) to
is attached to the picture create a House Style.
to give it more meaning.
Guitar in the main image
gives connotations of
music appealing to the
target audience.

4. Conventions of Contents pages
The contents page On the contents
follows the House page, the
style of the magazine usually
magazine by using sets it out in
the same fonts columns. This
and colours as the makes it easily
front page, these readable for the
colours and fonts audience.
will be seen
throughout the
magazine.
There is usually a large title to let you know it is the contents page. There are
also sub-headings such as features or regular things that occur in the magazine.
There is normally a main picture usually a main feature of the magazine along
with a few secondary images to go with the other headings.

5. My Contents Page
I have the large title
‘Contents’ so the
readers know what
page their on. I have I have tried to set
also followed the page out in
conventions by columns to follow
having the sub conventi0ons and
headings and page make it easy for
numbers. I also the audience to
have the main read.
image accompanied
with three
secondary images.
My contents page follows the house style by using the same colours (red and
black) as the front cover. Also I have shortened the title of the magazine to RJ and
placed it in the corner to create familiarity with the readers.

6. Conventions of an article
An article in a magazine usually has a large heading to grab the readers
attention. It is normally a quote from the band or person the article is on and
will be something interesting to make the audience want to read more. There
will be a large image, normally of the person who is the topic of the article and
they will be in an un-natural position. They will be posing in certain ways and
sometimes may have unusual props.

7. My Article
I have placed a large quote from a member of the band to grab the attention of the reader
and make them want to read more. The main image is of the band posing with props
(guitar and drumsticks). This shows who does what in the band and if the reader knows
who the people in the picture are then they will want to know more about them. I have a
big title of the name of the band with a short paragraph setting the scene for the
interview. I have also set it out in columns, again for ease of reading. The secondary images
add a bit of depth to the article and show two members of the band, on in an unusual
situation which makes the reader feel closer to the band, as if it’s personal to them.