Friday 30 November 2012

Music magazine contents page analysis

Music magazine contents page analysis


The annotations are:

- All of the colours go together well and don't clash. The colours are feminine colours which implies that the magazine is for females. Only five colours are used on this contents page, yellow, white, black, light pink and dark pink, plus the colours included in the picture.
- A website adress has been added to get people to visit it. The website is for extra information about the magazine.
- A big picture is in the centre to get peoples attention and to get them to read it. It is also a celebrity which would get peoples attention straight away. If people are fans of the celebrity they would want to read the article and because the celebrity is a really famous celebrity as he is a actor from Twilight, fans of Twilight would also want to read it.
- A catchy title and slogan is used to get peoples attention and to get them too read it, plus it is about the celebrity so they would want to go to the page that it is on and read all about it. 'Tender or Tough?' is a rhetorical question which needs no answer but readers would want to find out the answer so they would read the article.
- There is a brief introduction about what the article is about and has the celebrities name in bold to tell people who the article is about and to get them to read it if they like him.
- A few pictures are included of the celebrity which shows the article is about him.
- Another web adress is included on this page.
- There is a picture of a male's naked torso and this would get readers to look at page nine because you would be intrigued and would want to see it as you would be attracted to it. Mainly females only though. Females are usually attracted to naked mens torso's as they think of them as the ideal type if the torso has a six pack etc. 
- The background is pink. Pink represents females as it is a feminine colour, hence why this is a girly magazine.
- There is a picture of a famous actor who is also a teen sweetheart who people love and adore. They have specifically used these teen sweetheart so it attracts young teenage females who love him and who are fans of the film he is in.
- 'Gossip2Go' - the main heading for all top of the pops magazines (for the contents page). It is bold and bright and tells you exactly what you are going to get in the magazine, 'Gossip'. The 'Go' and '2' is in pink whereas the other letters are in black. I think this is because the contents page usually tells you where to go in the magazines and if you read the words together it says 'Go 2'.
- All writing is clear and easy to read. There are a few fonts used here. I think that there are only a few fonts used because it keeps it simple but effective. If too many fonts were used then it would look too busy.  

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