Conventions of Magazines

Magazines; although all very different, have many conventions that are frequently seen within them all. For example generally all front covers of magazines whether monthly or weekly sold all have conventions such as short memorable titles that are placed within a large header to catch buyers attention. Other conventions are thing such as subjects of interest within the front covers are always clearly presented, for example if a music magazine was to interview a new band the band members faces will all be clearly shown; this is relevant within all magazines whether about cars, fashion or women, all subjects will be clearly presented. For music magazines especially images of bands are generally quite large. Bright colour schemes are usually chosen to try and attempt the attract further attention of buyers and then of course all magaines have a price and barcode somewhere on the front or back.

Contents pages. Contents pages are also similar within magazines, they will generally have the title of the magazine on in a medium sized font (much smaller than the title page) and will obviously incude all the information and listings of the content within the magazine.

Double feature pages. Double feature pages within a music magazine example are usually used for famous or brand new bands or artists. These will generally contain the magazine title, a large image of the band or artists in question and a large header stating the band or artist name in a clear bold font to give an impact on the article. The articles withing the feature pages will be written in a clear font with certain sections highlighted to attract readers attention to points of interest. All of these thing will be seen throughout magazines and will all have continous colour schemes within these pages and front pages.