Music magazine analysis

Analysis of Music Week magazine (front cover)

Colour scheme: The fronts cover for Music Week magazine is very detailed and coloured. There is a filter across the whole front cover shot, but the main theme colours consist of Red, Black and Blue. The main body for the background is white. Taylor Swift lipstick matches part of the Masthead, they did this to tie it all in together. There is no puff or anything of the sort in the front cover.

Fonts: The Masthead and the headline are the same text but different style. One is longer and thinner whereas the other one shorter, wider and thicker, making it easier to read for the audience. Including the statement on Taylors back is still in a design but easy to read. There is not much righting on the front cover of this magazine because it depends highly on Taylors shot to draw the reader’s attention. A subtle theme to contrast to the rest of the magazine.

Photography: The shot here was taken professionally but it was still a very natural look. The background being nature and her pose not to planned out, knee length shot, almost effortless. This give the reader an insight to what they are about to read. The choice of the mellow colours enhances that effortless theme because the colours aren’t too bright or flashy. When the editing was done they paid a lot of detail to her face covering her eye with her fringe to create that mysterious feel.

Writing style: The front cover doesn’t have enough writing to analyse to.

Text/picture ratio: The front cover depends highly on the photograph for its main body as Taylor Swift has been made the objective of this magazine. The text Is simplistic you don’t need to add anything else to the front cover or it may become to look overcrowded because of how big and detailed the shot is.

Overall look: The front cover is a bit to plain, lack of text and other media tools, but overall the front cover works well the way it is paying a lot of attention in the editing. Very different to gossip magazine this is very quiet and reserved whereas the others are loud and flashy.

Publisher: Intent media is the publisher of the music week magazine. Intent media also publish other magazine with information for retailers, distributers, manufactures and suppliers.

Analysis of Music Week magazine (contents Page)

Colour scheme: in comparison to the front cover the contents page is very busy and slightly more colourful. There is a lot of extra detail that was put there in the form of text, pictures and advertisements to make the contents page a bit fuller. They kept to the colour scheme of black and red but very light and subtle. The important headline is in bold black writing just of centre page, to catch the readers of guard.

Fonts: The font for the writing has been kept the same a typical sans serif font not to difficult for the reader to see, but the size does average out according different texts and the importance of the information. There was no pull out quotes, so elements like italics, colour block etc. where not used; this page is very basic with fronts.

Photography: No professional studio shots were taken for this page, just mainly face shots which already existed prior to the making of this edition of Music Week. Only the important features have photographs and of course the main story just to give the readers an insight to the story.

Writing style: There was not really a specific way they arranged everything on a page, just a basic column for the feature and the sub features underneath. They didn’t do anything fancy with the way the writing set such as curving the writing around the picture or even over lapping it. They put a category above each feature so it’s easier for them to find what they are looking.

Text/picture ratio: The page is slightly overcrowded, barely no gaps or space for enlargement. The text is to full and irrelevant for a first page. Most contents pages take up the majority of the space showing the readers what’s happening inside the magazine, whereas here they got straight into the stories only leaving limited room for the all the remaining conventions. And not even enough pictures to draw attention from all the writing.

Overall look: This contents page is too busy, and doesn’t really resemble a regular contents page. It would be very of putting to first time buyer as there is too much to read just on the contents page. It has the normal glossy look of a magazine, less writing and more pictures would really help bring out potential on the advertising side.

This Magazine does not have Double Page Spread