Sunday 30 September 2012

NME

Target audience: Indie/ rock music audience.
Price/frequency: £2.40/ weekly.
Number of pictures: 8 pictures.
Analysis: Main picture for the main article in the centre. Rest of the pictures are round the main picture, all with little captions and the page number big and bold in the corner of the picture. 
Picture captions/labels: Quotes said who the article is about and there reply is quite humorous.
Language used: Jokey/ sarcastic style in the writing.
Number of pages in the magazine/number of articles mentions: 66 pages and 16 articles.
Use of colour: Black and white very basic. Pictures are quite dull and dark, focused on the rock side of the magazine.
Use of font: Bold title, all text is black. Style of font varies in every, bold regular, italic. and the size also varies.

Marie Claire

Target audience: Womens magazine, from about 20's-30's.
Price/frequency: £3.70/ monthly.
Number of pictures: 8 pictures.
Analysis:Bright, fairly large. Pictures are scattered around the pages, but are quite bright and girly. Pictures are like a little sneak peak of what article is about.
Picture captions/labels: Leaves you wanting to read the article Sort of like a cliff hanger. This makes the reader want to read on the articles they are interested in.
Language used: Alot of quotes used. Girly words used throughout to make articles appeal to them.
Number of pages in the magazine/number of articles mentions: 257 pages and 44 articles.
Use of colour: Black and white text and background. Pictures very bright to grab readers attention.
Use of font: Bold title. Subheading slightly, smaller than heading and italic. The rest is same dont size.
Any other information: Pictures are all of women. This shows who the audience is aimed at.





(The back of Marie Claire)












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1 comment:

  1. Hi Ciara,
    Please can you explain what you have learnt about contents pages from this investigation?
    Thank you.

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