Professional Pages Analysis Jordan Griffin

Front cover• Has a clear colour scheme, black, red, and white. Quite

bold colours, and red and white stands out against the black perfectly. ‘In your face’ kind of effect. Universal colours also, not like pink where that would apply to predominantly females, these colours can be favoured by both sexes, and of all ages, showing no specific target audience although it’s a mature page.

• Big masthead, grabbing attention from readers, this allows them to quickly identify what brand of magazine it is.

• Large writing in the centre shows what the main feature of the magazine will be, making things clear to audience yet again.

• Image behind all the text, linked to the massive text in the middle. Image in black and white, doesn’t take any distraction away from the page.

• Writing predominantly takes up most of the space on the cover, again letting audience know what features this edition of the magazine will include, also suggesting they have a lot of material to talk about.

Contents Page• Not the same magazine as front cover I

analysed, although similar colour scheme, used for similar reasons I mentioned earlier.

• In this particular contents page, content and text seems to play a minor role. The writing is small, the text column is narrow.

• Many pictures on the contents page, giving readers a more visual awareness of what to expect in the forthcoming pages.

• No empty spaces, the contents page is filled with boxes, text and images.

• No main feature on the page, everything here has the same value despite image size. There’s nothing that stands out incredibly despite the large black and white image in the centre, possibly more attention from readers would be spent looking at that image rather than other things on the contents page.

Double Page Spread• Again, not the same magazines as the

previous two pages but the same colour scheme, making things consistent regarding maturity and universal.

• Main image on left, shows personality of artist, takes up an entire a4 page to show the stature of the article/artist in terms of importance to magazine/personal success.

• Article on right, narrow columns, small writing, layout like a newspaper, lot of material in the article and used to fit on the one page.

• Massive ‘L’ positioned behind the text, allowing main body of text to overlap, reasons for design elements. ‘L’ used as the first letter of the artist. Makes things more eyecatching.