Each of the conventions in media say something about the magazine. For this task, I analysed a magazine cover and identified the different convetions and why they were used. I also had to work out what they were trying to show by using certain conventions.

When somebody makes a magazine, they usually have a target audience in mind. these target audiences have demographics and psychographics. The demographic is sometyhing that cannot technically be changed, such as age, gender, income, education and ocupation of the person. The psychographic is a group of people that the magazine is targeted at. For example, the Mojo magazine that I studied is targeted at people who like rock music. We had to research demographics and psychographics before we analysed the magazine cover to work out who the target audioence were. This magazine is quite traditional in terms of design, there are not really any fancy fonts on the page. From this, we can assume that the magazine is aimied more at traditionalists.

When I come to make my magazine cover, I will need to take into account things like Demographics, psychographics, colour pallette and the font.