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Convetsions and codes for music magazines
Technical codes
- How the magazine is created
- Software used to create the magazine
Written codes
- How the text conveys meaning
- Headlines
- Captions
- Font size/positions
- Layout
- Date
- Price
- Pictures
After analysing many music magazines in class, it is clear that most magazines follow the same rules for conventions. A magazine convention is something which is found on every magazine you see in a shop or buy. They are things such as a Masthead or Cover line, the Date or Price or Barcode.
Language – The language in a music magazine can be shown in many different ways. If the magazine was created using the English language it would be available to a wider audience spread. The language of a magazine could also be its genre as in rock, pop, hip-hop. The more popular genre will have a wider audience.
Institution- Institutions that created within music magazines are some of the largest in the business. They use it too select bands to be placed inside the magazine.
Ideology- this is the legal values, moral values. It is a system of belief that a group of people in the magazine all share.
Audience- Having a targeted audience for a music magazine is very important this can make your magazine more successful. By having a targeted audience it gives you a style on which to base your magazine one for example, for young children between the ages of 10-14 the writing in the magazine would be easier to read and they would use short words that children will be able to understand.
Representation-This is how the ideology of the magazine is shown.
- How the magazine is created
- Software used to create the magazine
Written codes
- How the text conveys meaning
- Headlines
- Captions
- Font size/positions
- Layout
- Date
- Price
- Pictures
After analysing many music magazines in class, it is clear that most magazines follow the same rules for conventions. A magazine convention is something which is found on every magazine you see in a shop or buy. They are things such as a Masthead or Cover line, the Date or Price or Barcode.
Language – The language in a music magazine can be shown in many different ways. If the magazine was created using the English language it would be available to a wider audience spread. The language of a magazine could also be its genre as in rock, pop, hip-hop. The more popular genre will have a wider audience.
Institution- Institutions that created within music magazines are some of the largest in the business. They use it too select bands to be placed inside the magazine.
Ideology- this is the legal values, moral values. It is a system of belief that a group of people in the magazine all share.
Audience- Having a targeted audience for a music magazine is very important this can make your magazine more successful. By having a targeted audience it gives you a style on which to base your magazine one for example, for young children between the ages of 10-14 the writing in the magazine would be easier to read and they would use short words that children will be able to understand.
Representation-This is how the ideology of the magazine is shown.
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