Magazine Research - Another Escape

The front cover clearly displays what genre of magazine this is, with the outdoor theme of green and brown colours. This makes the magazine appealing to people who are interested in this specific genre of magazine. In addition to this, the cover follows the expectations of an outdoors magazine in that the cover has the conventional colour scheme as well as the main image being taken outdoors. This acts as an invitation to the magazine for fans of the genre, which would be described as an action code by Barthes. Furthermore, the cover sets the tone for the magazine as being non- commercial as there are no advertisements or large headlines across the image. This means that the whole cover is a symbolic code for the magazine's ideologies.