Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Magaizne Front Cover Terms

Masthead title piece - The magazine's title, this is usually displayed in the top left corner.
Price - This is how much the magazine costs.
Date - Weekly: usually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly: a month ahead.
Issue Number - A tally of the magazines.
Barcode - This is read electronically and decoded into usable information.
Teaser - OIne word/phase acts as an attention grabber.
Main Features: Headline - A phrase that may summarise the main point of the main feature. In large print different stlye, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader.
Subtitle - Smaller headline that may summarise the feature.
Smaller Feature - Features included in the magazines.
Images - Size: CU to med CU. Ranges from one main image to x amaount featuring one main image and smaller images. Helps make the page look more interesting. It can add understanding of a story an/or entice someone to read the magazine.
Font - Stlye and size of type face.
Colour - Specific/stylistic/thematic types.
Graphics -Graphical shapes to higlight feature(s).
Offers/adverts Blurb - Banner - style shape featuring free products/promotions.
Left Third - Any graphics that take up the left third of the screen for example the main feautures.
Cover Lines - This is information about lead articles given on the front cover of a magazine.
Sell Lines - These lines are the lines that identify a brand.
Splash - A bubble/graphic with text that splashes accross the page.
Credit - Who took the photo's.
Kicker - Is like a teaser of an article that will be in the magazine.
Teller - Is explaining the teaser.
Skyline -  This is the head line above the master head.
Flash - Is similar to the splash.
Graphology - The art of using graphics/colour scheme.
Anchorage - Explains what the picture is.
Vocabulary - The text that is written on the page.
Screamers - Head line is what you verbally shout.
Images - Pictures that have being took and then used in the magazine.

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