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By Ross Georgallides
Pug: The pug appears on this magazine to have the same appearance of a sticker effect, it is designed to look like it has been stuck on after the production of the magazines front cover, its positioned on the left hand side of the front cover with 3 snapshots of other magazines pointing out of the circular red background. The colouring of the pug fits well into the magazines colour scheme and keeps the front cover consistent with the house style. The pug denotes 4 amazing covers created by the same company and promotes and convinces the target audience to purchase more of the Total Film magazines. The pug could been seen as another sell line as it promotes the same magazine its on and three other magazines just like it.
Pug: Very strange pug convention that denotes a BONUS in the magazine on a green semicircle, designed to look like a sticker stuck on after production. This convention is key to catching the eyes of your target audience but does exactly the opposite of what it is designed to do. On the sticker and next to the stick are two bold sans serif typographies in white and pink, these two texts link as they are promoting an article inside the magazine. Convincing the audience to buy the magazine.
Colour Scheme, House Style and Technical Codes: This front cover has no set colour scheme, many bright and vibrant colours are used. The only dominant colour on this magazine is black, which is featured in the fonts, in the models hair, in her shadows and on her wrist. The front covers house style is consistent throughout, in all key conventions also. The majority of technical codes are all unusually presented apart from the placement of the masthead and the positioning of conventions in the rule of thirds. Also, there is no barcode, which is a big surprise.
Price, Date, Issue, Website, Barcode: These conventions are featured on the front cover but blend in well with the colour scheme and house style. The barcode featured in the bottom left corner is an ugly white/black square but fits in hiding some negative space and matches the colour scheme. It doesnt attract the eye as much as the other key conventions, therefore not undermining the power of the other conventions. All the other conventions are written in a small sized bold sans serif uppercase font, positioned in negative spaces around the mag.
Banner/Footer: This thin rectangular shaped background filled banner designed to look stuck onto the bottom of the page denotes another key story within the magazine. The banner complies with the colour scheme and house style in full effect. It consists of a startling solid bold black capitalised sans serif text on a dull golden fill background across the bottom of the page.
The two film magazines and the vogue magazine are extremely similar. They contain all the key conventions with lots of attractive techniques and positioning. This gives the impression they are worked on by professionals over a long period of time. Insinuating that they are released once a month or later. They are not densely packed or congested. They have all the correct technical codes, a strong house style and follow a strict colour scheme through out. They all have barcodes but are disguised in the usage of colour scheme and positioning. Also, these magazines have a clear target audience of males, theyre not targeted to attract females.
Where as, the Bollywood front cover is nothing alike as it only contains some key conventions with little thought and technique used. Some attraction devices like the main image and the masthead but the front cover contains no clear structure. No set colour scheme and loads of different bright, vibrant colours used, this made it seem like the text was constructed by a five year old. Insinuating that they are released weekly or earlier. The Bollywood mag also contained no evidence of a barcode which was completely different and unstereotypical as the other three all had a discrete yet scan-able barcode. The Bollywood mag has a clear targeted audience of females which is the opposite to the other three magazines.