Analysing Magazine Covers

You can immediately tell that this is a magazine because of it bold Masthead, catching your eye and making it clear what the magazine is about.

Cover lines - these are information about the most important and the biggest articles in the magazine for example 'I slept with my professor'.

It is also made clear that this magazine is educationrelated because each other the plugs has something todo with college life, lectures etc.

The Central Image is of Mike Posner, a famous artist who is popular with this Magazines target audience (college students). There is also a cover line on a story about him in the magazine.

This magazine uses a 'three colour' colour scheme so it is quite simple but effective. All the colours work well together and look stylish and well presented.

The more important stories (the Cover Lines) are in capital letters to grab your attention, while the explanation of the article is in lower case to give you some details and interest you to read more

Bar code and price - only a small part of the front the front cover but very important.

This Masthead on this magazine makes it very clear as to what the magazine is about and what you will expect to find in this magazine.

This magazine has a header. A bit of information and the top of the front cover about stories you can read about inside the magazine. It is highlighted in orange to grab the readers attention.

The central image is quite simple as it only uses a blue background and the football player, however this really makes the guy stand out and helps to clearly show the topic of this magazine.

This front cover also has Graphic Features.Smaller images, to add interest to teasers, plugs etc. This makes the reader even more interested and grabs attention.

The Cover lines of this front cover give information about the most important and the biggest articles in the magazine.

Like all magazine front covers this has its bar code, price and date of issue. All important parts of a magazines front cover, giving vital information.

There are not many colour used on this magazine front cover so to keep it simple but effective. All the colours compliment each other something that is important when designing a front cover.All of the plugs on this

magazine cover are in capital letters so to make more of an impact and to show importance.

Analysing contents pages

This quite a simple contents page with not much information on it other than the pages you will find certain stories, however I feel that this works well as it gets straight to the point and any reader can clearly see where to find certain articles. You have a masthead, again telling you the name of the magazine but also a title down the side showing clearly that is a contents page. Each page is clearly laid out for you with the title of each article and the page number next to it. There are not many colours or pictures used on this contents page again adding to the simplicity of it.

This contents page stands out very well to the readers, due to its mixture of bright colours, such as blue, pink and orange. With the colour of the font being black, and the entire background being white, these are contrasting colours, which make the contents page easy to read. Includes a number of images, relating to the magazine articles that are in the actual magazine. The magazines are split up into 5 different categories on the contents page. Doing this makes it easier for the reader to find articles that they may want to read. There are also a few pictures to interesting teasers to make the articles seem more interest, it also makes the contents page more visual.