Thursday, 10 November 2011

Convention terms of a music magazine cover

Left Third: they're graphics that take up the left third of the magazine.


Cover line: A caption on a magazine cover


Masthead: The title of a newspaper or magazine at the head of the front.


Sell lines: It's a method of selling: to attractive buyers and be popular on the market.


Barcode: is the small image of lines and spaces that is affixed to retail store items. The code uses a sequence of vertical bars and spaces to represent numbers and other symbols.


Dateline: A phrase at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine article that gives the date and place of its origin.


Splash: The whole front cover


Credit: A line acknowledging the source or origin of a news dispatch, published article, or other work.


Kicker: A message that 'kicks' the user from page to page. 


Teller:  the subheading that informs the reader what the article's about.


Skyline: A line above the masthead.


Flash: advertising free CDs for example.


Graphology: The study of handwriting, especially when employed as a means of analyzing character.


Anchorage: Fixing of meaning


Colour scheme: The colours which are used within the magazine.


Vocabulary: Words used to attract buyers.


Screamers: A catchy headline.


Images: the pictures used in magazines to attract the buyer. Helps to make the page more interesting. It can add understanding of a story.

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