What is a magazine...
For many people a magazine is a wad of paper containing information that they may or may not be interested in.But in reality a magazine is a lot more than that. Magazines contain articles, photographs, advertisements, and what these magazines contain depends on their niche market.
There are many different genres of magazines, such as; music, sport, food, news, television, fashion etc, and each genre contain different information to appeal to their audience.
Within this modern day magazines aren't just available in your local supermarket, but they're also available online. This means they can contain different forms of media text such as sound and video, which then appeals to a larger niche market.
All magazines comply to a number of codes and conventions of which they can vary and change to suit their niche market. A masthead is a generic convention that people would expect to see on the cover of all magazines. The masthead does not change throughout additions of magazines, it keeps the same typeface and position on the cover meaning that avid readers of the magazine will recognise it easily between all the other colourful concoctions placed on the shelf.
It is a well written definition Flick. When discussing conventions you could have also referred to coverlines, photographic image, use of colour, connotations, etc.
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