print media terms Flashcards

magazines and broadsheets/tabloids

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What is a magazine?

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  • a print periodical publication containing miscellaneous pieces (articles, stories), often has pictures
  • usually printed on glossy paper
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Difference between a normal magazine and a lifestyle magazine?

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Lifestyle magazines tend to cover topics about health, tourism, fashion, trends and pop-culture
- tell you what you should be aspiring for/how to live your life
- not on one specifc topic, mass audience

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Masthead?

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  • name of the magazine, the visual branding of the title
  • unique typeface (what you see, like the design of a font etc.) to be recognisable
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What is the short description showing the magazine’s main selling point?

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Selling Line

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Cover Lines?

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  • briefly describes and promotes content
  • distributed around the dominant signifier
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Puff piece?

haha funny term

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An exageratted article/piece of text on the front of the magazine, often irrelevant to the actual contents of the magazine
- there to fill space

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Main Cover Line/Model Credit?

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  • very large (smaller than masthead, bigger than the other coverlines)
  • postioned away from model so it shows up clearly
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Why is the left third important when selling magazines? (in terms of western countries?)

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  • In shops, the magazine is not shown full-frontage(hence the name left third)
  • THEREFORE the title must be easily recognisable in a display of other mag covers, start of the masthead is important
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Dateline?

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The month and year of publication, often shown with the price
- usually found top right, below masthead

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