Magazine front cover analysis

Magazine front cover analysis

For my end product that was going to be graded on the music magazine I knew that I had to be able to create a front cover and a double spread contents page in order to be able to make sure that mine looked like a real professional magazine. To fulfil this I understood that I had to look at magazines that already existed and analyse them by looking at their code and conventions and make sure that mine had the same. On the other hand, for my preliminary task I only needed to produce a front cover and contents page.

 

 As you can see here I analysed my own magazine to see what codes and conventions I added but not only this I explained the effect of each code and convention. however, not only this I also looked at my magazine and acknowledged what challenges I have so then I can change these for my real magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

Researching the magazine industry tasks Prelimiary Task

The Magazine Industry
There are two types of magazine businesses that are called trade and consumer. Trade Magazines serve a particular industry such as cars, home buyers etc. but consumer magazines are written for the general audience and thus a specific target market such as teenagers who enjoy football magazines.

Five Reasons why magazine sales might be falling in the UK

1. The number of magazine brands that have released digit editions of magazines have increased, this will lead to a decrease in magazine sales because people in this generation now have access to the internet.
2. If magazines don't put enough adverts in their magazine they would lose customers and therefore suffer, they would lose customers because the customers that do buy the magazine may only buy it just for the adverts and opportunities shown from the advert.
3. Blogs are now being used more creating  more competition.
4. Social Media is trending more and more.
5. Live events are appearing more frequently and magazines are no longer needed.

Six different magazine categories

1. Religion
2. General News
3. Cooking and food
4. fashion
5. Home& Garden
6. Sports

Choose one type of magazine and write done conventions that the audience might expect to see if they were going to buy the magazine.

1. Friendly Body Language
2. Bold and bright masthead
3. clear themes
4. clothing and colour schemes
5. Magazine colour scheme (changes with every model and subject)
6. main pictures
7. Horoscopes
8. competition
9. celebrities
10. Advice
11. Advertising make-up brands.