CODES AND CONVENTIONS By Saja Kamareddine POPULAR FASHION MAGAZINES: ELLE
Elle is a worldwide lifestyle
magazine of French origin that focuses on fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's best-selling fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hlne Gordon in 1945. Elle was founded in France in 1945. POPULAR FILM MAGAZINES:VOGUE
The British edition of Vogue is a fashion
magazine that has been published since the autumn of 1916. The magazine is considered to be one that links fashion to high society and class, teaching its readers how to assume a distinctively chic and modern appearance. As a branch-off of American Vogue, British Vogue is a magazine whose success is based upon its advertising rather than its sales revenue It is deemed to be more commercial than other editions of Vogue. British Vogue is the most profitable British magazine as well as the most profitable edition of Vogue besides the US and China editions. POPULAR FILM MAGAZINES: GLAMOUR
Glamour is a women's magazine
published by Cond Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 and first published in April 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood. Local editions are now published in numerous countries including the United Kingdom, United States, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Greece, Poland, South Africa, Brazil, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Netherlands and Mexico. In most cases it is a monthly publication. CODES AND CONVENTIONS
The magazine features typical conventions found in fashion magazines, such as
articles about fashion and numerous pages on new trends, styles, designers and whats on the catwalk. -Masthead: the masthead of a magazine is probably the most important and eye catching part of it, alongside with the actual model. It is the title block for the magazine. Sometimes, when the magazine is very well known, it can afford for the model to be covering the title, because the readers already know about this magazine e.g. Vogue is one to do this a lot. -Main image: In vogue they use a central image which is most dominant on the page and it is used to attract the readers by the image. - Main cover line: This is the second biggest text on the page, and it is easily recognised. The font is typically large and bold and placed on the sweet spot on the page which is a place on the cover which is very clear to the audience. -Tag line: A tagline is used as a way to promote the magazine and is usually used underneath the mast head on the cover. GRANITE G the genre of the magazine is fashion which I The initiations making money form these types of generally is a genre which writes about ladies fashion, texts being sold are the main contributors to the new trends, make-up and glamour. With fashion magazines publishing e.g. editors, models, publishers, magazines the front cover usually has a well know writers/ journalists etc.. celebrities or really glamourous models.
R people and ideas in fashion magazines are usually
T There are many technologies included in making and distributing magazines which include things such as represented in a very glamourous and idealistic way. different mass production technologies which produce the Models in these magazines are usually very poised and magazines and cameras to take the images used in the they use direct contact to attract the audience and make magazines, different lighting and editing software's. it personal like they are actually looking at you.
A Fashion magazines are stereotypically aimed at
E The editors of the magazines will know how to use different media terminologies and codes and conventions females aged 16-30 which is a very broad target to make sure the magazine appeals to the target audience but this is usually an age range which care audience, by including appropriate cover mounts and about their appearance and want to know about the splashes to appeal to the audience. hottest trends.
N There is no definitive narrative in these types of
magazines as they are usually very laid back and have a casual format to them because magazines are usually read in leisure.