The Food Magazines

Food Network Magazine
Codes & Conventions 

Looking at the Food Network magazine, you can see straight away the Main image that dominates three quaters of the front cover. This would catch the consumers eye, because they would see this peice of food and then would think "That looks really nice, I think if I take a look I can probably find a nice meal to cook". The masthead and logo is smaller than the main image, this shows that they wat the peice off food to be the most eye catching thing on their front cover. The coverlines also say appealing things about food, this would also draw in

GoodFood
Codes & Connventions

As seen before in the last magazine, the Main image is taking up most of the front cover, but the masthead is also taking up quite a large space at the top of the magazine. Its the same with the Subtitle under the Masthead. This is a disadvantage because it is making the taglines smaller, and would be harder to read. But there are some other smaller images at the bottom and there is a celebrity at the bottom right corner. This magazine hasn't really figured out what will be effective on the market to appeal to the audience.

Magazine Research

Looking at the magazines of the Food Network, they like to have their large central images dominate the front cover. This is a good thing because consumers would see the food product and would be interested in cooking that sort of dish. Not only that, they include 3 pictures of celebrity cooks on top of the magazine, this would promote the magazine because it would show that the chefs have cooked this dish. As a connotation. They also put eye catching taglines as well. And put encouraging words next to them like easy and Deviled. To make them sound like creative foods.