There are various elements that contribute to the production of magazines, such as the formatting and target audience. Magazines can be found at bookstores and should be attractive at a distance.
Today I have been looking at the codes and convention's of magazine's, and found out that magazine's are similar but differ to other magazine's because of the genre such as film magazine's, music or gossip. I then started to look at the main elements of magazine's which are layout, image, text and audience profile.
The Wired magazine seems to be very sophisticated from the cover and I would guess that the target audience would be adults or above. The magazine's colour scheme seems always very simple though always: using a range of colours: Black's Red’s, whites and even the occasional pink. This will be representing gender for male’s and females. The layout is very simple and even starts to miss most of the codes and conventions of magazines; for example: the top and bottom strip banners, strap lines and sell lines.. The layout though being very sophisticated is neat and in place, with margins being obviously girded, making it overall an “ok” magazine. Also, because of the themes often used by these magazines, younger teenager's would have great difficulty understanding the layout and coming to term's with it, as they wouldn't be able to find what they are looking for. Looking at the text of the magazine, i found that they were using a mixture of two fonts , though both being bold; one of the fonts were similar to the Times new roman and the other simply Ariel black which is a very plain rounded text. I found this style of text made the magazine, as if the magazine used the "comic sans MS" style text it would make the text from the magazine out of place, and more importantly slightly child like, Just like pop magazines. Gender specification is important, and can be shown in images used for feature articles, telling the reader that this is the right one for them. Wired use’s male artists for most of its articles, dressed up in suits, and most old; I think the reason for this image being used is that readers would look to the magazine as being knowledgeable, even though it uses airbrushed and modified images to give the perfect look. At first sight teens would look up to the character as role model and aspiration and even a tutor: because in most articles there are often pages which guide the reader to hack, for personal safety and more. By looking at the magazine you can tell straight away that the target audience is for adolescents and above
Looking at the code's and conventions of this magazine and many, many more I viewed, I am starting to build some ideas for my magazine. ideas that I will expand on to make my magazine competitive towards other magazine's of the same style.
