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Analysed and Evaluated 4 Front cover
magazines, 4 Contents page and 4 2 page
               spreads.

   By: Shayne Quiseo
The genre I have chosen for my music magazine is R&B. I have searched photos of R&B magazines in
            google.com and found these.

            These are examples of R&B front cover magazines from VIBE.
                                                                                Skyline/ Selling Line – is an extra
                                  Date line shows the date when                 information added above the
 Masthead – Is the title          the magazine was published.                   masthead about the magazine
 name of the magazine                                                           to attract its target audience.
 located at the top of the
 page. They are the
 biggest text found in a
 magazine, they are bold                                                                        Secondary cover lines –
 and are usually coloured                                                                       This is used to draw its
 in a very plain colour.                                                                        target audience’s
                                                                                                attention and to give
 Most of the Vibe                                                                               out information to
 magazine mastheads                                                                             show other stories that
 are usually placed                                                                             are included in the
 behind the picture so                                                                          magazine that they
 that their faces won’t                                                                         might find interesting
 be covered. This will                                                                          to read.
 also make the
 photo(s) stand out                                                                               Unique selling point –
 which attracts its                                                                               Keri Hilson’s photo is
 target audience to buy                                                                           their main attraction
 the magazine.                                                                                    of VIBE’s magazine
                                                                                                  which they use to
Direct mode of address –                                                                          attract their
is where the model in the                                                                         customers to buy it.
picture looks directly at
their customer to grab                                                                         This is called the ‘Rule of
their attention.                                                                               thirds’. As you can see,
                                           Pull quote – words taken out                        Keri Hilson’s picture is
   Main cover line – Usually says the      from an interview that is                           between the lines which
   name of the person on the picture       found in the magazine.                              mean that she is the main
   together with a short text about                                                            character in the magazine
                                                 Scan a pin barcode, Website
   them to try and persuade their                                                              where they are mainly
                                                 and a Barcode – These are
   customers in reading the                                                                    focused to.
                                                 included for their customers
   magazine. It also uses a big font
                                                 on the magazine if they            Route of the Eye
   size to make it stand out.
                                                 wanted more information            -
                                                 about them. The Barcode is       Footer – This technique is
                                                 there for scanning if            usually located along the
                                                 purchased.                       bottom of the magazine with a
                                                                                  plus ‘+’ sign to show the
                                                                                  additional features in the
                                                                                  magazine.
This is my second example of a front cover magazine with the genre of ‘R&B’. I will be evaluating and
            analysing the different types of techniques that they have used in this magazine on how it attracts
            their customer’s attention in buying this product.


                             Skyline/Selling line – the texts has been
Masthead – This                                                                   Indirect mode of address – In this
                             separated so that it won’t be covered by
magazine is called                                                                magazine the model does not look
                             the model. If it was covered, customers
‘EBONY’ but the letter                                                            directly at the camera. They have
                             won’t be able to see or read this because
‘N’ is covered by the                                                             used this technique because it allows
                             it’s too small unlike the masthead.
model of the magazine.                                                            it to show a worried expression as if
They have left out the                                                            he was in trouble.
other letters of the
                                                                                                    The style of their
masthead so that
                                                                                                    masthead has a red
audience are able to
                                                                                                    background to it to make
read it. Another reason
                                                                                                    it stand out to its
is that it is covered
                                                                                                    customers. The colour red
because this magazine is
                                                                                                    also shows danger to
already popular that
                                                                                                    emphasise the shocking
customers already know
                                                                                                    stories in their magazine.
what it says.

Kicker- the title of the
story                                                                                                   Secondary cover lines –
                                                                                                        Other features that are
  Explanatory text –                                                                                    included in the
  explains what the                                                                                     magazine.
  story is about to
  attract customers to                                                                              Rule of thirds – These
  read more about it.                                                                               two lines separates the
                                                                                                    magazine into three
Main cover line – ‘What                                                                             sections. In between
does BLACK SOUND LIKE?’                                                                             these two lines one
the font size & colour of                                                                           section shows the
this is very different                                                                              image of the cover
compared to the other                                                                               model, this means that
texts on the page. This                                                                             the magazine is mainly
allows it to pop out and                                                                            focused about this
shows its importance in                                                                             person (s).
the magazine.
                                                                                     Route of the eye
              Footer – Shows additional              Barcode – for
              features in the magazine.              scanning if purchased.     Unique Selling Point – The USP
                                                                                of this issue is ‘Chris Brown’
                                                                                who is the cover model of this
                                                                                magazine which helps attract
                                                                                their customers in purchasing
                                                                                it.
This is an example
                                                                                                          of a ‘Direct mode
              Here is my third example of an R&B magazine which I will be evaluating and analysing.
                                                                                                          of address’ where
                                                                                                          the cover model
                               Unique Selling Point – The USP of this magazine is ‘T.I.’ who is the
                                                                                                          looks directly at
                               cover model of the magazine. Customers who are likely to
                                                                                                          the camera/ its
                               purchase this issue may be the fans of T.I. who would be
 Masthead – The name                                                                                      target audience.
                               interested in reading through this magazine.
 of this magazine is
 called ‘COMPLEX’. Its                                                                                    Tagline – This is used
 letters are shown very                                                                                   as a slogan of the
 clearly in this                                                                                          brand. This allows the
 magazine which is very                                                                                   brand to be
 easy to read but only a                                                                                  memorable to its
 little bit of it is covered                                                                              customers.
 behind the cover
 model.                                                                                                     Secondary cover
                                                                                                            lines – other
                                                                                                            features included in
   Main cover line –
                                                                                                            the magazine that
   The font size is
                                                                                                            may attract lots of
   bigger than the
                                                                                                            customers in buying
   others and its
                                                                                                            it. – They have also
   colours are also
                                                                                                            added the page
   very different
                                                                                                            numbers next to it
   which shows its
                                                                                                            so that it is easier for
   importance.
                                                                                                            the consumers to
                                                                                                            find it.
Footer – We know this is
the footer of the                                                                                          Route of the Eye –
magazine because it has                                                                                    the route of the eye
the plus sign on it which                                                                                  starts from the
shows the additional                                                                                       masthead down to
features in the                                                                                            T.I.’s face, the apron
magazine, but instead of                                                                                   and finally to the
putting it on the bottom                                                                                   knives.
they have placed it on
the left side of the                                                                                        Date – ‘November
magazine.                                                                                                   2007’ is when this
                                                                                                            issue was published.

                 Flash/ Button – This may be hard for         Rule of thirds – between these two lines
                 the customers to notice that it is a         we can see the cover model’s picture.
                 Flash/ Button because of its different       As he is placed on the middle of the
                 style. Another reason is that it is          page, this means that his story is mainly
                 placed on the bottom rather than             focused in this magazine’s issue.
                 being placed on the top corner of the
                 magazine.
Finally my last example of a content page from the Billboard magazine that I have evaluated and
       analysed.
                                                                                              Skyline – This is a short
                                                                                              text added on top of the
                                                                                              masthead. In this
 Masthead – this                  Direct mode of address – In this picture the
                                                                                              magazine it says
 magazine is called               model is giving a direct mode of address
                                                                                              ‘Women’s Music’ to
 ‘Billboard’ but some             where they looks straight at their audience.
                                                                                              inform them the genre
 letters are missing
                                                                                              of this magazine and
 because it is covered
                                                                                              who it is targeted to.
 by the model. Some
 words are left so that
 the customers will
 know it when reading.                                                                        Unique selling point – In this
                                                                                               magazine, it would be
Secondary cover lines                                                                          Beyonce who is the model
– these are the                                                                                of this magazine to grab
number of stories that                                                                         their target audience’s
are included in the                                                                            attention.
magazine which may
also attract their
target audiences to                                                                            Button/ Flash – This is
read and purchase                                                                              used in magazines to
this magazine.                                                                                 advertise what’s inside the
                                                                                               magazine. In this button it
Main cover line – the                                                                          says ‘The Beatles’ which is
main cover line of this                                                                        a boy band. This makes
magazine would be this                                                                         their target audience
one because it stands                                                                          wonder why they are
out the most because                                                                           included in a women’s
of its different font                                                                          music magazine and might
colour, style and size                                                                         find it interesting to read
(except the masthead).                                                                         through.

                                   This would be called the ‘Footer’ of         The ‘Rule of thirds’ are
             Route of the Eye      the magazine because it is placed
                                                                               the blue lines that
                                   right on the bottom of the page and it
                                                                               placed on the middle of
                                   says ‘PLUS’ where it says more              the magazine. Between
                                   information that is included in the
                                                                               the two lines is the
                                   magazine that there target audience
                                                                               picture of ‘Beyonce’s’
                                   might find interesting to read .            face which means that
                                                                               she is the main story of
                                                                               this magazine.
Here are 4 examples of different magazine contents page where I pointed out the different
techniques they have used. This is a random contents page of some magazine that I have
found to research.

            Some magazines use the title ‘Contents’ for their contents page
            but others use their magazines masthead as their title.



                                                                     Secondary Images – these are
                                                                     different pictures of bands and
                                                                     other music celebrities added into
                                                                     the contents page to show other
                                                                     features included in the magazine.
                                                                     It also helps the page look busy and
                                                                     interesting for the readers. Other
                                                                     audiences such as teens may find it
                                                                     much more interesting to look at
                                                                     pictures rather than reading.

                                                              In this contents page, they have
                                                              shown the ‘features’ of the magazine
                                                              with its titles in a bold text but it
                                                              doesn’t have the page numbers with
                                                              it where it would be confusing for its
                                                              customers to find.


                                                                 They have separated the different
                                                                 types of articles that are also part
                                                                 of the magazine by putting them
                                                                 all together into different
                                                                 categories.


                       Some magazines takes the picture of
                       the front cover of their magazine to
                       their contents page and talks about
                       who and what was in the photo
                       including its photographer, editor &
                       make-up artists etc.
This is a contents page of the VIBE magazine that I found on www.google.com
           It has a completely different layout from the other contents page that I was previously evaluating
           and analysing.




  The main image on the                                                                       We know that this is a contents
                                                                                              page because of the big font
  contents page – this tells
                                                                                              located on the top right side of
  us that this person (Kanye                                                                  the page saying ‘CONTENTS’.
  West) is very important                                                                     The letters from this are
  where the magazine mainly                                                                   separated which I have noticed
  focuses on.                                                                                 on most of the VIBE magazine’s
                                                                                              contents pages.


    Images on the
    contents page are                                                                                 These are the
    usually related to                                                                                ‘Features’ which are
    the picture that is                                                                               included in the
    shown on the front                                                                                magazine together
    cover magazine.                                                                                   with its titles and
                                                                                                      page numbers so
                                                                                                      that it is easier for
                                                                                                      their customers to
                                                                                                      search through the
They have also added other                                                                            pages.
articles that are involved in
the magazine that other
customers may find                                                                              Plain background – this
interesting to read through.                                                                    helps the image stand out
                                                                                                even though it’s in black and
                                                                                                white. It also helps the texts
                                                                                                to be readable.
           This could mean the page number
           of the magazine or the first page of
           the contents page out of 3.
This contents page is from COMPLEX Magazine that I have found from www.google.com Images.
            I have chosen COMPLEX’s contents page because their style and their layout is very different from
            other magazines.


                                                                            I have noticed, most of the title ‘Contents’
                                                                            /’Table of Contents’ are always placed at
         This is the only image on the page of the front cover              the right top edge of the page. From this
         model placed on the top left corner of the contents page.          they have also added the Issue number
         This may be because this magazine’s issue is mainly                and the cover date of the magazine (When
         focused on Elisha Cuthbert.                                        this issue was published) on the bottom.



                                                                                                    Some magazines have
They have also                                                                                      2 page of table
added the                                                                                           Contents. For the first
masthead of the                                                                                     page, they only
magazine on this                                                                                    include the features
picture, but the                                                                                    that were shown on
difference is that                                                                                  the front cover
the letters                                                                                         because it is the
‘omplex’ are in                                                                                     number of topics that
lower case and the                                                                                  attracted the readers
letter C is in Upper                                                                                to purchase this issue
case.                                                                                               which they are most
                                                                                                    interested to read
                                                                                                    about
Magazines always include
                                                                                                      For the second
their official websites for their
                                                                                                      page, that’s where
customers to visit & to find
                                                                                                      they start adding all
out more information about
                                                                                                      the features that are
them. They have also added
                                                                                                      included in the
the cover date of this
                                                                                                      magazine including
magazine to show when this
                                                                                                      the magazine’s
issue was released to make
                                                                                                      editor and other
sure that their customers are
                                                                                                      directors etc.
aware that they are
purchasing the right issue –              They have included the topic’s pages
                                                                                        These three texts of ‘thru’ are very
These two techniques can be               beside it to guide their customers where
                                                                                        confusing to me that it persuades
found on the bottom left/                 to find these features in the magazine.
                                                                                        me to read through these pages
right of the page.                        It is also coloured in a white text & a
                                                                                        placed beside it.
                                          bright pink background to make it stand
                                                                                        The use of this technique is to
                                          out to the readers
                                                                                        introduce a prepositional phrase.
This is my last example of another contents page from a different magazine. As you can see, this
             contents page is from ‘upscale’ magazine which I will be Evaluating & Analysing the different types
             of techniques they have used. This example I have used may not be an R&B magazine because I
             couldn’t find any other R&B contents page, plus I thought I’d use this because its layout is very
             different to other contents apge.

                       In their contents page they have added the title of the
                       magazine on the top left of the page. They have also added
                       the title contents page but is rotated around 90 degrees
                       and placed next to the image of the front cover model and
                       the magazines features.                                           This is the magazine’s cover
                                                                                         date which was published on
 They have added                                                                         April 2010
 the magazine’s
 official website on
 their contents page
                                                                                                         They have separated
 just in case their
                                                                                                         the different topics
 customers wanted
                                                                                                         of the magazine into
 to know more
                                                                                                         different categories.
 information about
                                                                                                         The Features shows
 them
                                                                                                         the hottest topics
                                                                                                         that may interest
                                                                                                         readers to read
                                                                                                         through. The Style
This magazine has                                                                                        shows beauty guides
separated the                                                                                            and advices and
features that were                                                                                       other fashion trends
on the cover                                                                                             etc.
because these are
the topics that have
grabbed their                                                                                            They only have one
attention which                                                                                          secondary image
they are more                                                                                            added on their page
interested in                                                                                            of a woman
reading about.                                                                                           showing off her hair
                                                                                                         for the topic ‘Hair –
                                                                                                         Twisted hair styles
                                                                                                         rock!’ to persuade
                                                                                                         readers to read this
                                                                                                         topic.


                                                    This is a picture of this issues front cover for them to
          This is the name of the magazine
                                                    label the different topic’s pages for the customers to
          in a bold text the cover date
                                                    find easily. They also talk about who Tasha Smith’s (the
          beside it and the page number.
                                                    front cover model) photographer and the stylist etc.
Finally I will be Evaluating& Analyzing 4 different types of 2 page spread from different magazines.
          This 2 page spread that I found on Google images is from a magazine called ‘FLAVOUR’.

                                                                  This red line shows where the magazine folds. As you can see
                                                                  they have separated the texts on the left side and the picture on
       Lead Image - As Alexandra Burks is on the
                                                                  the right side making sure it is not placed on the middle so that
       FLAVOUR magazine’s 2 page spread, we know
                                                                  it is readable.
       that she is the front cover model of this issue.




              The text may be blur and small to                                            We know that this is the lead
              read, but we know that this is the           This is called the Columns
                                                           where the writer shows          image of this page because it is
              website of this magazine which is
                                                           his/her opinions about the      the biggest picture.
              highlighted in pink to make it stand
              out to its readers.                          artist.

This is the page number of this topic                     This is a Pull quote from
which includes the name of the                            Alexandra Burks which was
magazine.                                                 taken out from an interview.
This 2 page spread I have found from the website called Google is an R&B magazine called
         ‘Billboard’. This magazine’s issue is mainly focused about Rihanna’s story. I will be Evaluating and
         Analysing the different techniques they have used in this page.


                                                                 We know that this is the lead image because it is the
         Standfirst – This technique is used to                  biggest picture on the page. In this picture, Rihanna
         introduce the article. It is usually in a bigger        has been captured sitting on a turret of a pink tank
         font sizes than the other texts.                        which looks very strange that it encourages the
                                                                 readers to read through the article.




                                                               This pink line shows where the
                                                               magazine will be folded, that is why
                                                               they have separated the texts and put
                                                               it into two pages so that it will be
                                                               readable to its readers.




They have also used the technique ‘Pull
                                            This article is written in columns. This this two page spread, they have only
                                                                                  In
quote’ added amongst the text on the left
page. This is usually taken during an       helps the readers of this magazine to used 2 secondary images of Rihanna which I
interview.                                  read faster and easier. But what I think readers would find boring.
The use of a pull quote grabs its reader’s don’t like about this 2 page spread is
attention to read the article. They are that they have added too much                   They have used the title ‘Pon de
usually bigger than the other texts whichinformation that would discourage              airplay’ which sounds like Rihanna’s
help it stand out.                          their readers in reading it.                ‘Pon de replay’ music, but from this
                                                                                        we can tell that the text written
                   I have found this picture from
                                                                                        under this shows Rihanna’s top music
                   Google which already shows
                                                                                        tracks from one of her music albums.
                   the theme colours the
                   magazine uses. As you can
                   see, they have only used 3
                   different colours which they
                   have taken out from the lead
                   image. They have then applied
                   these to its font’s colour.
This double page spread example is from an R&B magazine called VIBE. This article is about
               Solange Knowles who is the famous R&B singer Beyonce’s sister.

                                                   We know that this is the lead image of this article as it
                                                   is different from the other pictures because it is the
                                                   only coloured image which stands outs very well from
                                                   the black and white secondary photos.
We know that this magazine is from ‘Vibe’
because of how they have set out the text
‘Volume’ exactly to the way they have set out                                                  This is called the columns
the title of their Contents page.                                                              that is used to layout a text
                                                                                               in an article.




Solange Knowles isn’t one of those famous R&B        This texts seems to have larger fonts This is a pull quote from
celebrities yet which some people may not            than the rest, this is because it is      Solange Knowles from and
recognise who she is, but from this text, only her   acting as a ‘Standfirst’ which is used    interview which is in a bold
name has a colour blue which highlights it and       to introduce the article.                 and larger font.
make it stand out to its readers to inform them
who she is.                                                                        The main colours they have used are
                              These are the 7 secondary images added               red, blue and black. They have used
                              along the top page. In these images, it              black for most of the text and the
                              looks like they have captured her every              secondary images. They have used blue
                              move while dancing. It is also coloured in           to highlight some important information
                              black and white which doesn’t really stand           and red for Solange Knowles dress which
                              out from the page.                                   stands out the most.
Lastly, this is my fourth example of a double page spread that I have found from Ebony magazine
about Alicia Keys which I will be analysing.




This double page spread is very simple where they have not added much information and secondary
images of the main character (Alicia Keys) which I think looks unfinished. I also think it is very boring
because they have only got one column of information and one image which I think there was no
point of making this double page spread for her at all. But the idea of just one block of column
placed on the left may be something really important and straight forward that the readers should
read and focus on because if they had a lot of information, readers might end up ignoring them and
not getting the whole story.

They have used Alicia Keys’ name as their title placed on the bottom of the page which is coloured in
two different types of orange and in large font size. The orange on the left is darker which really
stands out from red and the orange on the right is lighter which sort of clashes with the colours they
have used in the lead image. It may not be 100 percent readable to its readers but I think they did
this on purpose because Alicia Keys is already a famous R&B celebrity that everyone knows. The
colour orange is a mixture of red and yellow which could mean two reasons; power and joyful in
other words she is a fearless singer but in the inside she has a warm heart. The use of two different
colours helps separate it from the two pages and the line where the magazine will be folded in half
(the white line).

The use of a red background on the left page helps it look busy rather than white which would look
really boring and empty to its readers. This colour also shows as a warning/danger to give the idea to
its readers that this page is very important and that they should read the small information written
on the left.
The main colours they have used are red, orange, black and white which I think are very powerful
colours to show what her attitude is like. The use of colour white for the texts helps it stand out from
the red background rather than using a black text which would be hard to read.

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Analysing & Evaluating a Magazine

  • 1. Analysed and Evaluated 4 Front cover magazines, 4 Contents page and 4 2 page spreads. By: Shayne Quiseo
  • 2. The genre I have chosen for my music magazine is R&B. I have searched photos of R&B magazines in google.com and found these. These are examples of R&B front cover magazines from VIBE. Skyline/ Selling Line – is an extra Date line shows the date when information added above the Masthead – Is the title the magazine was published. masthead about the magazine name of the magazine to attract its target audience. located at the top of the page. They are the biggest text found in a magazine, they are bold Secondary cover lines – and are usually coloured This is used to draw its in a very plain colour. target audience’s attention and to give Most of the Vibe out information to magazine mastheads show other stories that are usually placed are included in the behind the picture so magazine that they that their faces won’t might find interesting be covered. This will to read. also make the photo(s) stand out Unique selling point – which attracts its Keri Hilson’s photo is target audience to buy their main attraction the magazine. of VIBE’s magazine which they use to Direct mode of address – attract their is where the model in the customers to buy it. picture looks directly at their customer to grab This is called the ‘Rule of their attention. thirds’. As you can see, Pull quote – words taken out Keri Hilson’s picture is Main cover line – Usually says the from an interview that is between the lines which name of the person on the picture found in the magazine. mean that she is the main together with a short text about character in the magazine Scan a pin barcode, Website them to try and persuade their where they are mainly and a Barcode – These are customers in reading the focused to. included for their customers magazine. It also uses a big font on the magazine if they Route of the Eye size to make it stand out. wanted more information - about them. The Barcode is Footer – This technique is there for scanning if usually located along the purchased. bottom of the magazine with a plus ‘+’ sign to show the additional features in the magazine.
  • 3. This is my second example of a front cover magazine with the genre of ‘R&B’. I will be evaluating and analysing the different types of techniques that they have used in this magazine on how it attracts their customer’s attention in buying this product. Skyline/Selling line – the texts has been Masthead – This Indirect mode of address – In this separated so that it won’t be covered by magazine is called magazine the model does not look the model. If it was covered, customers ‘EBONY’ but the letter directly at the camera. They have won’t be able to see or read this because ‘N’ is covered by the used this technique because it allows it’s too small unlike the masthead. model of the magazine. it to show a worried expression as if They have left out the he was in trouble. other letters of the The style of their masthead so that masthead has a red audience are able to background to it to make read it. Another reason it stand out to its is that it is covered customers. The colour red because this magazine is also shows danger to already popular that emphasise the shocking customers already know stories in their magazine. what it says. Kicker- the title of the story Secondary cover lines – Other features that are Explanatory text – included in the explains what the magazine. story is about to attract customers to Rule of thirds – These read more about it. two lines separates the magazine into three Main cover line – ‘What sections. In between does BLACK SOUND LIKE?’ these two lines one the font size & colour of section shows the this is very different image of the cover compared to the other model, this means that texts on the page. This the magazine is mainly allows it to pop out and focused about this shows its importance in person (s). the magazine. Route of the eye Footer – Shows additional Barcode – for features in the magazine. scanning if purchased. Unique Selling Point – The USP of this issue is ‘Chris Brown’ who is the cover model of this magazine which helps attract their customers in purchasing it.
  • 4. This is an example of a ‘Direct mode Here is my third example of an R&B magazine which I will be evaluating and analysing. of address’ where the cover model Unique Selling Point – The USP of this magazine is ‘T.I.’ who is the looks directly at cover model of the magazine. Customers who are likely to the camera/ its purchase this issue may be the fans of T.I. who would be Masthead – The name target audience. interested in reading through this magazine. of this magazine is called ‘COMPLEX’. Its Tagline – This is used letters are shown very as a slogan of the clearly in this brand. This allows the magazine which is very brand to be easy to read but only a memorable to its little bit of it is covered customers. behind the cover model. Secondary cover lines – other features included in Main cover line – the magazine that The font size is may attract lots of bigger than the customers in buying others and its it. – They have also colours are also added the page very different numbers next to it which shows its so that it is easier for importance. the consumers to find it. Footer – We know this is the footer of the Route of the Eye – magazine because it has the route of the eye the plus sign on it which starts from the shows the additional masthead down to features in the T.I.’s face, the apron magazine, but instead of and finally to the putting it on the bottom knives. they have placed it on the left side of the Date – ‘November magazine. 2007’ is when this issue was published. Flash/ Button – This may be hard for Rule of thirds – between these two lines the customers to notice that it is a we can see the cover model’s picture. Flash/ Button because of its different As he is placed on the middle of the style. Another reason is that it is page, this means that his story is mainly placed on the bottom rather than focused in this magazine’s issue. being placed on the top corner of the magazine.
  • 5. Finally my last example of a content page from the Billboard magazine that I have evaluated and analysed. Skyline – This is a short text added on top of the masthead. In this Masthead – this Direct mode of address – In this picture the magazine it says magazine is called model is giving a direct mode of address ‘Women’s Music’ to ‘Billboard’ but some where they looks straight at their audience. inform them the genre letters are missing of this magazine and because it is covered who it is targeted to. by the model. Some words are left so that the customers will know it when reading. Unique selling point – In this magazine, it would be Secondary cover lines Beyonce who is the model – these are the of this magazine to grab number of stories that their target audience’s are included in the attention. magazine which may also attract their target audiences to Button/ Flash – This is read and purchase used in magazines to this magazine. advertise what’s inside the magazine. In this button it Main cover line – the says ‘The Beatles’ which is main cover line of this a boy band. This makes magazine would be this their target audience one because it stands wonder why they are out the most because included in a women’s of its different font music magazine and might colour, style and size find it interesting to read (except the masthead). through. This would be called the ‘Footer’ of The ‘Rule of thirds’ are Route of the Eye the magazine because it is placed the blue lines that right on the bottom of the page and it placed on the middle of says ‘PLUS’ where it says more the magazine. Between information that is included in the the two lines is the magazine that there target audience picture of ‘Beyonce’s’ might find interesting to read . face which means that she is the main story of this magazine.
  • 6. Here are 4 examples of different magazine contents page where I pointed out the different techniques they have used. This is a random contents page of some magazine that I have found to research. Some magazines use the title ‘Contents’ for their contents page but others use their magazines masthead as their title. Secondary Images – these are different pictures of bands and other music celebrities added into the contents page to show other features included in the magazine. It also helps the page look busy and interesting for the readers. Other audiences such as teens may find it much more interesting to look at pictures rather than reading. In this contents page, they have shown the ‘features’ of the magazine with its titles in a bold text but it doesn’t have the page numbers with it where it would be confusing for its customers to find. They have separated the different types of articles that are also part of the magazine by putting them all together into different categories. Some magazines takes the picture of the front cover of their magazine to their contents page and talks about who and what was in the photo including its photographer, editor & make-up artists etc.
  • 7. This is a contents page of the VIBE magazine that I found on www.google.com It has a completely different layout from the other contents page that I was previously evaluating and analysing. The main image on the We know that this is a contents page because of the big font contents page – this tells located on the top right side of us that this person (Kanye the page saying ‘CONTENTS’. West) is very important The letters from this are where the magazine mainly separated which I have noticed focuses on. on most of the VIBE magazine’s contents pages. Images on the contents page are These are the usually related to ‘Features’ which are the picture that is included in the shown on the front magazine together cover magazine. with its titles and page numbers so that it is easier for their customers to search through the They have also added other pages. articles that are involved in the magazine that other customers may find Plain background – this interesting to read through. helps the image stand out even though it’s in black and white. It also helps the texts to be readable. This could mean the page number of the magazine or the first page of the contents page out of 3.
  • 8. This contents page is from COMPLEX Magazine that I have found from www.google.com Images. I have chosen COMPLEX’s contents page because their style and their layout is very different from other magazines. I have noticed, most of the title ‘Contents’ /’Table of Contents’ are always placed at This is the only image on the page of the front cover the right top edge of the page. From this model placed on the top left corner of the contents page. they have also added the Issue number This may be because this magazine’s issue is mainly and the cover date of the magazine (When focused on Elisha Cuthbert. this issue was published) on the bottom. Some magazines have They have also 2 page of table added the Contents. For the first masthead of the page, they only magazine on this include the features picture, but the that were shown on difference is that the front cover the letters because it is the ‘omplex’ are in number of topics that lower case and the attracted the readers letter C is in Upper to purchase this issue case. which they are most interested to read about Magazines always include For the second their official websites for their page, that’s where customers to visit & to find they start adding all out more information about the features that are them. They have also added included in the the cover date of this magazine including magazine to show when this the magazine’s issue was released to make editor and other sure that their customers are directors etc. aware that they are purchasing the right issue – They have included the topic’s pages These three texts of ‘thru’ are very These two techniques can be beside it to guide their customers where confusing to me that it persuades found on the bottom left/ to find these features in the magazine. me to read through these pages right of the page. It is also coloured in a white text & a placed beside it. bright pink background to make it stand The use of this technique is to out to the readers introduce a prepositional phrase.
  • 9. This is my last example of another contents page from a different magazine. As you can see, this contents page is from ‘upscale’ magazine which I will be Evaluating & Analysing the different types of techniques they have used. This example I have used may not be an R&B magazine because I couldn’t find any other R&B contents page, plus I thought I’d use this because its layout is very different to other contents apge. In their contents page they have added the title of the magazine on the top left of the page. They have also added the title contents page but is rotated around 90 degrees and placed next to the image of the front cover model and the magazines features. This is the magazine’s cover date which was published on They have added April 2010 the magazine’s official website on their contents page They have separated just in case their the different topics customers wanted of the magazine into to know more different categories. information about The Features shows them the hottest topics that may interest readers to read through. The Style This magazine has shows beauty guides separated the and advices and features that were other fashion trends on the cover etc. because these are the topics that have grabbed their They only have one attention which secondary image they are more added on their page interested in of a woman reading about. showing off her hair for the topic ‘Hair – Twisted hair styles rock!’ to persuade readers to read this topic. This is a picture of this issues front cover for them to This is the name of the magazine label the different topic’s pages for the customers to in a bold text the cover date find easily. They also talk about who Tasha Smith’s (the beside it and the page number. front cover model) photographer and the stylist etc.
  • 10. Finally I will be Evaluating& Analyzing 4 different types of 2 page spread from different magazines. This 2 page spread that I found on Google images is from a magazine called ‘FLAVOUR’. This red line shows where the magazine folds. As you can see they have separated the texts on the left side and the picture on Lead Image - As Alexandra Burks is on the the right side making sure it is not placed on the middle so that FLAVOUR magazine’s 2 page spread, we know it is readable. that she is the front cover model of this issue. The text may be blur and small to We know that this is the lead read, but we know that this is the This is called the Columns where the writer shows image of this page because it is website of this magazine which is his/her opinions about the the biggest picture. highlighted in pink to make it stand out to its readers. artist. This is the page number of this topic This is a Pull quote from which includes the name of the Alexandra Burks which was magazine. taken out from an interview.
  • 11. This 2 page spread I have found from the website called Google is an R&B magazine called ‘Billboard’. This magazine’s issue is mainly focused about Rihanna’s story. I will be Evaluating and Analysing the different techniques they have used in this page. We know that this is the lead image because it is the Standfirst – This technique is used to biggest picture on the page. In this picture, Rihanna introduce the article. It is usually in a bigger has been captured sitting on a turret of a pink tank font sizes than the other texts. which looks very strange that it encourages the readers to read through the article. This pink line shows where the magazine will be folded, that is why they have separated the texts and put it into two pages so that it will be readable to its readers. They have also used the technique ‘Pull This article is written in columns. This this two page spread, they have only In quote’ added amongst the text on the left page. This is usually taken during an helps the readers of this magazine to used 2 secondary images of Rihanna which I interview. read faster and easier. But what I think readers would find boring. The use of a pull quote grabs its reader’s don’t like about this 2 page spread is attention to read the article. They are that they have added too much They have used the title ‘Pon de usually bigger than the other texts whichinformation that would discourage airplay’ which sounds like Rihanna’s help it stand out. their readers in reading it. ‘Pon de replay’ music, but from this we can tell that the text written I have found this picture from under this shows Rihanna’s top music Google which already shows tracks from one of her music albums. the theme colours the magazine uses. As you can see, they have only used 3 different colours which they have taken out from the lead image. They have then applied these to its font’s colour.
  • 12. This double page spread example is from an R&B magazine called VIBE. This article is about Solange Knowles who is the famous R&B singer Beyonce’s sister. We know that this is the lead image of this article as it is different from the other pictures because it is the only coloured image which stands outs very well from the black and white secondary photos. We know that this magazine is from ‘Vibe’ because of how they have set out the text ‘Volume’ exactly to the way they have set out This is called the columns the title of their Contents page. that is used to layout a text in an article. Solange Knowles isn’t one of those famous R&B This texts seems to have larger fonts This is a pull quote from celebrities yet which some people may not than the rest, this is because it is Solange Knowles from and recognise who she is, but from this text, only her acting as a ‘Standfirst’ which is used interview which is in a bold name has a colour blue which highlights it and to introduce the article. and larger font. make it stand out to its readers to inform them who she is. The main colours they have used are These are the 7 secondary images added red, blue and black. They have used along the top page. In these images, it black for most of the text and the looks like they have captured her every secondary images. They have used blue move while dancing. It is also coloured in to highlight some important information black and white which doesn’t really stand and red for Solange Knowles dress which out from the page. stands out the most.
  • 13. Lastly, this is my fourth example of a double page spread that I have found from Ebony magazine about Alicia Keys which I will be analysing. This double page spread is very simple where they have not added much information and secondary images of the main character (Alicia Keys) which I think looks unfinished. I also think it is very boring because they have only got one column of information and one image which I think there was no point of making this double page spread for her at all. But the idea of just one block of column placed on the left may be something really important and straight forward that the readers should read and focus on because if they had a lot of information, readers might end up ignoring them and not getting the whole story. They have used Alicia Keys’ name as their title placed on the bottom of the page which is coloured in two different types of orange and in large font size. The orange on the left is darker which really stands out from red and the orange on the right is lighter which sort of clashes with the colours they have used in the lead image. It may not be 100 percent readable to its readers but I think they did this on purpose because Alicia Keys is already a famous R&B celebrity that everyone knows. The colour orange is a mixture of red and yellow which could mean two reasons; power and joyful in other words she is a fearless singer but in the inside she has a warm heart. The use of two different colours helps separate it from the two pages and the line where the magazine will be folded in half (the white line). The use of a red background on the left page helps it look busy rather than white which would look really boring and empty to its readers. This colour also shows as a warning/danger to give the idea to its readers that this page is very important and that they should read the small information written on the left.
  • 14. The main colours they have used are red, orange, black and white which I think are very powerful colours to show what her attitude is like. The use of colour white for the texts helps it stand out from the red background rather than using a black text which would be hard to read.