Class Notes

• Magazines have very specific target audiences and are clearly differentiated in order to appeal to that audience. For example, it's obvious that magazines with the target audience aimed towards men are different to those aimed towards women despite sharing the same codes and conventions.
•  Magazine covers always have the following elements: price, barcode and issue number/date, a photograph directly related to the featured article, a recognisable masthead, a link between the colours used  and the month of publication, and various puffs and plugs to entice the audience to buy the magazine.
• Magazine front covers are carefully designed to attract the target audience, and be easily noticed on the newsagents sleeves. 
• Women's magazines contain many ideologies about femininity, whereas magazines for men contain many ideologies about masculinity. 
• Magazines can be put into genres: film, lifestyle, motoring, fashion, gadgets, music, parenting, etc...
• Audience is often categorised this way: age, gender, class and sexuality.