analysis of magazine contents

int this magazine there are loads of topics that appeal to the target audience, some of the key themes and topics of each article are:
in the first article they have tweets from celebrities, the key theme of this article is for gossip, people love to find out stuff out about you tubers and spread it to other people who are not aware of it. another article in this magazine is a stand up to cancer article, where it has a famous youtuber Zoella wearing a stand up to cancer t-shirt. the key theme of this article is to bring people together to try and beat this disease.  the magazine also contains a section where the audience get a say in what they want to see in the magazine, the theme of this article is improvement/ involving, this is effective because it allows the magazine editors and the audience communicate to help each other improve the magazine.





The contents of the magazine show the audience ways of life, or influences them into thinking the way they should live there life, they do this by showing the readers items of clothing or accessories that they are told are required in life. The magazine also shows the audience celebrity life styles, this is to inform and keep people  up to date with there favourite celebs. the magazine basically inspires readers to be like the people in the magazine, to have the same life style as them and live similler lifes  to the celebrities they are reading about. I believe that the magazine can some times give the wrong message that people need certain clothes and accessories to have a happy life but they are not true.




The magazine covers a lot of topics in the entirety of it, but there are 3 I believe shine more, showing the ideology behind the magazine. One of the main topics covered by the magazine is you tuber gossip. I identified this as one of the main topics of the magazine because it is practically the whole point of the magazine, also on  page 4 it says 'juicy alfie goss' which shows us that this section of the magazine is dedicated to you tube gossip. Another key topic from the magazine is fashion/ style, the target audience that this magazine is aimed at revolves around fashion, so keeping them up to date with the latest fashion trends



The magazine contains articles that the target audience may find interesting. Many of the articles contain content that look at the life of celebrities, and up to date fashion.


  

editors letters review

this is the editors letters for one of the magazines i have been looking at. This editors letters has a lot of key contents, for example the letter has images and text which conveys a lot of the common things that people would see in an editors letter, for example, the editors writes to the audience as if they are a close friend, this is effective because it gives the audience a sense of a strong bond between the reader and the editor, another convention is that the paragraph is reasonably short and genuinely tells the reader the summary of the magazine, and there inspiration for some of the things inside the magazine. another key thing that the magazine includes is  that he editor has signed her signature at the end of the letter this because it shows that he editors letter is very formal and actually aimed at the reader to read to and respond in their minds when they read the contents of the magazine.

 

This is the contents page i included in my magazine, my contents page contains a lot of images, and text. this, contents page reflects my target audience because it includes lots of gaming images and text, and it reflects the genre witch is gaming. i believe the images drag the audiences attention to the contents page, because the images reflect whats on the front page and makes it easy for the audience to identify what content is in each page. 

The magazines colour scheme consists of 5 different colours to represent different things. The main title consists of the colours red orange and yellow, the background is white, and the text is black. The colour scheme of the contents page is very basic and simple, i believe that this is meant to resemble the target audience, who are probably wealthy, upper class females aged 20-40, who focus there time on fashion.

The main image of the magazine is of a women standing on her own with a white background. he women is standing with a very slouched, but with confident body language. this has been used because it is a replacement for a main headline/ title. this is effective because it makes it easier for the reader to understand what is on certain pages, so seeing this women with the page number next to her will easily indicate to the reader that the article on that page will be about her or what she is wearing, based off the genre of the magazine.


The layout of the magazine is very well organised and neat. The main title is clearly labelled at the top, with the text at the left hand side and the main image on the right hand side of it. this was used because
  

this is generations sp4 official magazine cover, the genre of this magazine is gaming, the target audience for this magazine is teenager boys who like gaming.

Conventional layout of a magazine cover

	Rolling Stone	Empire	Cosmopolitan
Image	the main image is a close up of a famous music artist, the image takes up the majority of the front cover.	the main image is of 2 of the main characters from the new star wars film, it takes up the whole cover.	The main image of this magazine cover is of an iconic female music artist, wearing revealing clothing and standing in a sexual/ seductive pose, tis is to attract a male audience to the magazine and also fans of this iconic music artist.
Coverlines	they are positioned on the right hand side of the cover in a lower font so that the readers whole attention is on the main cover lines.	this magazine has not got any cover lines to show off the characters on the main character, if it did have them they would be positioned on the sides of the cover	There are many cover lines on this magazine cover, in different colours, mainly white, but all of them are mainly consisted about sex and how to keep your body looking good, telling women how society thinks they should look like.
Title	the main title is positioned at the top of the magazine cover over the main image.	the title is positioned at the top of the magazine in a bold red font, behind the main image, because the magazine is so well known they don't need to tel the reader the title.	The main image of this magazine cover is at the top of the magazine, in different colours, pink, white and blue, these attract the audiences eye. The title is covered by the main image, showing that the magazine is so popular that people dont need to see the title to know what magazie that is, also so that the audience focuses more on the main image and articles instead of the brand of magazine.
Tagline	this magazine does not have a tagline, however if it did it would probably be positioned beneath the main title and wouldn't be that big	the main one is positioned on the left hand side in a big bold font to show the reader	This issue of the magazine does not have a tagline, however other issues may have and the majority of the time it is located near the title.
Price	the magazine doesn't show a price it shows the bar code, however if it did show the price it would be positioned in a corner of the magazine and visible to the buyer	The magazine does not show the price on the main cover page, however if it did it would be located in one of the corners of the magazine cover with a different colour to the main colour scheme making it stand out to the audience	The price of this magazine is in the top right corner of the magazine, in a bright yellow box, however it is really small so that the readers cant see the price properly and will pay for it.
Date	it does not show the date of the magazine, it would be somewhere near the bottom of the cover if it was included	it does not show the date of the magazine, it would be somewhere near the bottom of the cover if it was included	it does not show the date of the magazine, it would be somewhere near the bottom of the cover if it was included
Main Coverlines	The main cover line in this magazine is in a bigger bolder font compared to the rest of the text on the cover, indicating to the audience that that is the main topic of the magazine.	This magazine is different apart from the title the only other text on the magazine is the name of the film star wars the force awakens, which could be seen as the main cover line to the audience because of its big font.	This magazine covers main cover line is wild summer sex, the word sex is in a brighter bolder font compared to the rest of the magazine cover, this is because this generation lots of people like to sexuallise women, a good example of this is the magazines main image, showing a women looking in terms "sexy" with the word sex in bright bold colours and fonts is meant to idolise this to the audience, they see a women looking like hoe nikki minaj is in this picture with th word sex next to her will make the male part of the audience buy this magazine to look more over what the magazne is trying to convey putting this main image and this main cover line together.

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main image 

One of the main features to this magazine is the main image. the main image shows David Beckham, who is an iconic football player, his image takes up over half of the magazine cover. The effect of this is that fans of this magazine, or the target audience, the position of him in the image is effective as well. The image is a mid shot of David Beckham, standing with his body sideways with his head looking towards the camera. This is effective because the readers will see him looking towards him, which makes them want to buy it because it has caught their eyes/ attention. The image also shows that he is a sporty person, by the genre of the magazine, and his dress code, his dress code looks like the top half of a tracksuit with a plane white shirt, showing the reader he is a sporty person. People can be inspired by this magazine, they will see David and see how athletic it is and people will want to be like him because he is a world famous idol.

title


Another main feature of this magazine is the title, the title is called men's health, which is in a bright vibrant orange. the reason why the title is in this colour is because its eye catching to the reader, it stands out on a shelf. the target audience of this magazine is men who want to keep fit and healthy, this is easily shown to us through the title, the title tells us that this magazine is specifically for men. also, linking to the main image the title is covered by the main image, this is effective because the magazine is so famous and well known that they can have this iconic sports star covering their title, so it basis the whole magazine on him, and doesn't focus on who produced the magazine.

colour


Another main feature of this magazine cover is the colour scheme. the colour scheme for this magazine is very basic consisting of the colours: white, black, red, grey, and orange. these colours are basic because, they have to make the image stand out, so by using these plain simple blacks and whites, bring out the brightly coloured red in the main image. the colour scheme could represent the target the audience, the colour scheme is very ordinary with little bursts of colour, this could represent someone doing exercise, seeing as this magazine is based on being fit and healthy, the ordinary colours could represent a gentle normal work out, then the burst of bright colours could represent a higher intensity work out, which is short and energetic. 

language

the language in this magazine cover is very reflective on the genre magazine. the text tells the reader about the the ways to look good and smell good, after and during exercise. this attracts the reader because the audience that the reader is part off is interested in this stuff. in a way its inspiring men to keep themselves to keep in shape.

cover line

The main cover line of this magazine is hard to see in this, because there is so many. I think that they have done this because they want to make every part of the magazine important and worth reading to the audience. They are positioned all over the magazine in big bold writing, so that they can catch the readers eye/ attention. the colour scheme for all of them is black.