Summaries of key findings

Summaries of key findings 

Cover 

After my analysis of the four magazine covers, the four magazine content pages and the four magazine articles I was able to realize some aspects that have been used over and over again. When looking at the different covers, content pages and articles, you can see the similarities between them and the differences, you can see the similarities between the different magazines that can be completely different genres and have a completely different target audience, but still have similarities.

When looking at the analysis of the magazine cover, contents and articles, I was able to see some similarities, some of the key findings that I found included for every magazine cover there is the masthead at the top of the page, this is because when the magazines are in the shops your only able to see the top of the magazine, if the masthead is not there then people will not know what magazine it is. Also with the front cover there is always an main image, most of the time it is of someone, but sometimes it can be of something, this helps so that the cover doesn’t look boring to the reader and therefore the reader will want to buy the magazine if the cover looks good, even though they say don’t buy a book by its cover, with magazines people still do, because if it doesn’t look attractive then they will not look at the magazine when it is in the shop and will concentrate on other magazines. When looking at the cover of the magazine you can see that the magazine always has the coverlines around the cover artist. The cover of the magazines have colour schemes, most covers use 3 or 4 colours, making the magazine more attractive to the reader. When looking at popular magazines, you are able to see that they use famous artists on the cover, for example Kerrang uses well known bands.

Article

When looking at the four article analysis’s of the different music magazines that I chose to analyses, I was able to see the different things that all that articles in the different magazines used which were similar to the others. When looking at the articles you can see that the headline of the article would be above the text and the standfirst ect, making it stand out to the rest of the article, so the reader is able to realize what the article is about when reading the headline. All the articles have images of the famous artist or band when looking at the music magazines; this is so that the reader can relate the text to the images. Also in all the articles they highlight important things that they want the reader to acknowledge, for example the name of the band or the artist, this is so that when the reader looks on to that page they are able to realize who they are talking about straight away. When looking at the articles I was able to realize that most of the time they have one whole page dedicated to the image if the band or artist that the article is about, this helps so it don’t always seem boring, and they are able to relate the text to the image. With the articles on bands and artist, your able to realize that the articles are very informal, and use slang in the article, so that they can relate the article to the target audience.