The cover of my magazine uses, challenges and develops magazine codes and conventions due to how I created and used the codes and conventions in a way I felt would target and draw in my audience My magazine cover has a skyline,

main image, title, barcode, cover lines puff, buzz words, colour scheme, links

and issue information.

I challenged these forms by using my imagination and developing

what I knew about codes and conventions and making them as

different and developed as I could think of.

I developed my skyline by having a different text which was funky but fitting with my Indie theme, I wanted to try

to incorporate as much of an Indie vibe into the production of my magazine as I could so I

knew it would cater to my preferred target audience. By

making it a simple red box with simple but edgy text I felt this was a good way to attract the reader’s attention but not

taking them away from the main image or bold text on

the cover page.

The puff I chose was fitting in with my English Indie theme

by creating a union jack on Photoshop I feel I challenged

this convention as it stands out a lot and is one of the

main things that stands out. I think I challenged this

convention as usually puffs that I have seen don’t stand

out as much and it may be seen as taking some of the main images thunder but I

think it works quite well, it fits in with my theme and I also

think it adds character and is more attractive to the

audience.

I used a puff in my advertising banner which is the plus sign you can see. I used this to make the advertising banner stick out more and found a funky cool text from dafont which I felt helped to draw the reader to the part which also may push them into buying it. By the reader knowing what artists or competitions are going on in the magazine they are more inclined I feel to buy the magazine. I think that this is one of the most important conventions of a cover page as the main purpose of advertising and making a funky cover catered to your target audience is to make sure that people buy it!

Most of the indie magazine I looked at had plain background with black and white or bright coloured images. I feel I have challenged and developed this by having a dull more out of focus main image and having a mixed colour background. I used different colours from my colour theme to create a busy background which I could then place my image onto.

Codes and Conventions of my Cover page