When analysing magazine contents, you should be able to identify all of the following elements:
Alley: the space between columns within a page.
Bleed: when the image is printed to the very edge of the page.
Boost: picture boost (usually front page) pic promoting a feature or story in later pages
Strap boost: as above, but with a strapline, not a picture
Cropping: the elimination of parts of a photograph or other original that are not required to be printed. Cropping allows the remaining parts of the image to be enlarged to fill the space.
Flush left: copy aligned along the left margin.
Flush right: copy aligned along the right margin.
Sell - Short sentence promoting an article, often pulling out a quote or a interesting sentence.
Talkie headline: a quote from one of the people in the story used as a headline
This vocabulary is essential for any student aspiring to a B or above.
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