Magazine Notes

Magazines are popular media texts
Magazines have very specific audiences in mind (niche) and are clearly differentiated
Despite sharing the same codes and conventions it is obvious that a men's magazine has a different target audience to a woman's magazine.

Magazine front covers always have strong generic elements:

Price, bar code and issue number/ date

A photograph directly related to the feature article

A recognisable masthead

Various plugs and puffs on the front cover to entice the audience to buy the magazine

A thematic link between the colours used and the month of publication as well as colour links between images and text, for example.

Magazine front covers are carefully designed to attract the target audience and be easily identified.

Genre:
Lifestyle
Fashion
Music
Film
Motoring

Audience is categorised by:
Age
Gender
Class
Sexuality
Representation

IDEOLOGIES (powerful ideas)

Women's magazines contain many ideologies about femininity.

Mens Magazines contain ideologies about masculinity.

Examples from Good Housekeeping Magazines:
40-60 Women
House Wives
Middle class
Price of Magazine indicates audience.

Marie Claire:
Women Late 20's to early 30's.
Working Class.
Slim, Toned.
Powerful Beyonce is iconic.
Positive.