The document analyzes various aspects of magazine covers and contents pages, including: 1) Front covers typically contain a masthead, relevant images, and bar codes with publication date and price at the bottom. Colour schemes are limited to 3 colors suitable to the magazine's genre. 2) Contents pages list a range of artists/bands and contain credits, dates matching the cover, and fonts consistent with the cover design. 3) Contents suggest at least 68 pages of material and include short descriptions to entice readers. Layout and themes are consistent throughout the magazine.

1. Magazine Analysis.

2. Front Covers!
All of these
magazines have
different colour
schemes but the
The front cover contains a colours that are
masthead that fills up the used are suitable to
top quarter of the page, it the type of
have relevant images that go magazine and
The masthead doesn't with the theme of the genre.
contain the date and magazine.
price, the bar code at the The masthead always
bottom of the cover has an image
tends to contain this overlapping the name
information. of the magazine.

3. Bar Codes!
The bar code contains the
date of which the magazine
was published.
All bar codes tend to be the
same, with a white
background and is placed in
the left or right hand corner
at the bottom.
The bar code always
contains the price of the
magazine.

4. Colour Schemes!
There are no more than three
colours used on the same
magazine cover. For example;
On the cover of BBC Music
magazine they have kept it
simple with blacks and
greys, the title is black yet the
background is grey. Also they
have used white for some of
the text. All these colours link
together. Also for „Q‟
magazine they have used
reds, whites and blacks! They
have a different colour for
their background but that
goes with their image. As for
„NME‟ magazine they have
also kept it simple with just
three colours; Yellow, black
and white.

5. Text and Fonts!
Also on the front cover, the
magazine contains key words that
suggest the fan is part of an
exclusive club by using words such
as; Inside, revealed, exclusive, new.
And „NME‟ „Q‟ and „BBC MUSIC‟
magazine have included some of
these key words.
“World Exclusive” “NEW
interview, UNSEEN photos”, “Their
biggest challenge yet…”
All these words suggest that the
reader is a special fan and are
getting all these „exclusive‟ things
, the magazine includes these
because they want to make the
reader/fan feel involved and
included so when they see „NEW
EXCLUSIVE…” they will buy the
magazine. In al;l of the magazines I
have looked at they tend to keep the
front quite simple and plain, but
when they use interesting keywords
they make them bold and bright so
they stand out and catch the eye. All
the fronts and sizes carry on
through out the whole magazine.

6. Contents pages! BBC Music
The front cover
magazine and In the Q
NME magazine always has the
magazine
have one content content page it
publisher‟s
page whereas Q contains a address in very
magazine has different range tiny, but
two. of artists and legible print
In all of the bands, however also the
contents pages the BBC music contents page
there are a range magazine only
of shot contains credit
contains a
distances, for picture of
for the front
example; Gareth Malone cover
different pictures himself. photographer.
from different
angles.
All the contents pages suggest that
they have at least 68 pages of
material in the magazine.
The contents page also contains the
same date as the front cover of the
magazine. All the contents pages
that I have looked at they all have a
theme that matches the front cover
and it goes throughout the magazine
instead of having a strict page order.
Therefore the contents page contains
the same three fonts as the front
cover.