This week began the analysis of different magazines. We were introduced to a variety of different magazines where we came up with similar codes and conventions that are spotted on front pages, contents pages and double page spreads. Then, individually we analysed each one and found the subtle differences that are commonly found with certain genres.
For the front page, I found that the genre I am interested in used more dark colours and their images on the front cover. They also don't use any shadows and have the artists standing face on with the images ending around their legs, being covered by a row of pictures and the bottom.
I learnt the basics around how you can set up a contents page; either a 'blocky' design or an image-dominated design. 'Blocky' contents page involves a bold and consistent colour scheme, picture and captions. It is usually described as 'masculine' because of its unfussy appearance. An image-dominated look centres around the image and contains little texts. Usually the text becomes obscured because of the image.
The double page spread was slightly harder to analyse as you could have any style. Typically, the image dominated one half of the page and may slightly cross the fold line. However, there was a lot of exceptions for that. For example, in one issue of Kerrang!, when skimming through it, I came across 5 double page spreads. Within this, only 3 of the spreads followed the rule of having the image on one side and the text on the other. The other two were more image dominated and contained only a small section of texts, not following the usually convention of being put in three columns.
Our extra task was to analyse 5 front covers, 5 contents pages and 5 double page spreads and compare them to what we can apply to our own magazines.
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