Analysis of how a house style is created by the use of media language in real-life magazines (thinking about uses of colour and shapes, font types, images, camera shots, composition etc).

1. House style
Front cover & Contents page

2. Main image is towards
the top of the
magazine.
Use of the colour pink
(referring to their
feminine audience) in
both pages.
A variety of both sans
and sans serif font types
used in both pages.
Females used as
the main images.
Referral to main
headlines in
contents page -
'spring homes
special'.

3. Masthead - 'closer'
represented at the
beginning of both pages.
The colour pink has been
used frequently
throughout both pages.
The colour pink is linking
towards their female target
audience.
Several different women
have been used which can
reflect on the idea that this
magazine is aimed to
target females.
Uses of two font
types, sans serif
and serif.
Although mainly
sans serif font
type.
Both main
images are
females (also
mother).
Cover page has
used lots of
different
colours and
photos,
whereas the
contents page
is very simple
and less
chaotic.
Uses of the same three
colours: pink, white and
yellow.

4. Same font types used in
constant colour scheme.
Masthead used in both
pages. Use of the colour pink,
used between both.
Colours yellow, pink and
blue used throughout both
pages.
Main images, reflect
the colour blue on
both pages.
The use of the
colour yellow to
represent the
flashes on both
the front cover
and content
pages.
Same colour scheme stays
the same throughout.