Magazine Genre Codes and Conventions Research Project Pt.1
Codes and conventions of "Vice" Cover Jonathan Gonzalez
To further contemplate how I will design my magazine, I have chosen to use Vice magazine's cover as a reference. Vice magazine covers over controversial topics, current affairs, information on cultures and arts, and a good chunk of that is what I will be covering in my magazine. I will be covering over different magazine covers and analyzing their codes and conventions.
To start off, This magazine cover of Vice has symbolic codes that give away what will be spoken about in this issue of Vice. The setting takes place in Afghanistan, a location where a current US war is being fought. This symbolizes that the issue will generally be touching upon what's happening on over in Afghanistan, but it seems that what is happening in the cover is cruel and tragic ultimately symbolizing that the war is so severe and brutal that soldiers even have to defend themselves from dogs and possibly shoot down an animal.
Symbolic codes play a key role in Vice's magazine covers. Since their issues are usually underground culture insights that people usually don't know about and you see the cover and get intrigued by the cover alone by wanting to see what's beneath this picture, what's the story behind it?
Underneath here you can see Vice's issue on "The Syria Issue" and "Anonymous" They throw really obscene and explicit covers. For example the Syria Issue cover has smoke in the back from what seems like an explosion, a bunch of people piling up gathering together on the highway which seems like they are surveying or are they possibly fighting alongside? You can't know until you open up the magazine and find out. But Vice doesn't forget about their technical codes either because as you can see in the anonymous issue they use their anonymous masks and anonymous is already pretty well known to the public but each and every different thing they do is always leaving a company or place exposed or hacked. Therefore, it attracts the audience because they're doing so many hectic acts behind a computer without getting caught, and it's a large group of people, not one single person.
Vice's uses of symbolic codes also include their color, they use colors usually around the season it can fluctuate from a bunch of colors thrown at you to just a few for emphasis of seriousness or if there's a bunch of colors a less serious issue. For example on the bottom right the October's Vice magazine cover has about 5 colors , red, white, grey, black, and skin color. To emphasis the gross and foul neck being opened up by two little creatures crawling into the woman's neck. While on the left side we have a bunch of naked colored strangers on an island, using multiple surplus of colors to show a bizarre issue that they want to show to the audience. All in all these obscene and explicit covers are used to really grab the audience's attention into opening their magazine and finding out what's happening on the cover.
To start off, This magazine cover of Vice has symbolic codes that give away what will be spoken about in this issue of Vice. The setting takes place in Afghanistan, a location where a current US war is being fought. This symbolizes that the issue will generally be touching upon what's happening on over in Afghanistan, but it seems that what is happening in the cover is cruel and tragic ultimately symbolizing that the war is so severe and brutal that soldiers even have to defend themselves from dogs and possibly shoot down an animal.
Symbolic codes play a key role in Vice's magazine covers. Since their issues are usually underground culture insights that people usually don't know about and you see the cover and get intrigued by the cover alone by wanting to see what's beneath this picture, what's the story behind it?
Underneath here you can see Vice's issue on "The Syria Issue" and "Anonymous" They throw really obscene and explicit covers. For example the Syria Issue cover has smoke in the back from what seems like an explosion, a bunch of people piling up gathering together on the highway which seems like they are surveying or are they possibly fighting alongside? You can't know until you open up the magazine and find out. But Vice doesn't forget about their technical codes either because as you can see in the anonymous issue they use their anonymous masks and anonymous is already pretty well known to the public but each and every different thing they do is always leaving a company or place exposed or hacked. Therefore, it attracts the audience because they're doing so many hectic acts behind a computer without getting caught, and it's a large group of people, not one single person.
Vice's uses of symbolic codes also include their color, they use colors usually around the season it can fluctuate from a bunch of colors thrown at you to just a few for emphasis of seriousness or if there's a bunch of colors a less serious issue. For example on the bottom right the October's Vice magazine cover has about 5 colors , red, white, grey, black, and skin color. To emphasis the gross and foul neck being opened up by two little creatures crawling into the woman's neck. While on the left side we have a bunch of naked colored strangers on an island, using multiple surplus of colors to show a bizarre issue that they want to show to the audience. All in all these obscene and explicit covers are used to really grab the audience's attention into opening their magazine and finding out what's happening on the cover.
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