This magazine article uses a double page spread with a large sepia toned photograph taking up most of the pages. The photograph and its vintage style represents the musician's classic rock style. There is minimal use of color with black text on one side of the page. The informal language and inclusion of a lighter in the photograph help provide context about the musician's rock and roll lifestyle. Overall, the simple yet effective layout and design inspire the creator to consider simplicity in their own magazine spreads.

3. This magazine features a famous RnB
artist called Eve, as the main image.
This would attract different audiences
male or female who are into RnB and
know about them. The front cover
itself has gone with a pink white and
blue colour scheme, the simplicity of
it works to make it appeal yet again
to both genders. This is eye-
catching, however I think it is trying to
appeal more to women orientated
audience than men due to the
colour scheme and the main image.
The writing on the cover as well
makes me believe this as the words
"Real Sex" and "Real love“ are
something a woman would be drawn
to rather than a man, the fact its in
bold red makes it powerful. I think this
is trying to draw readers in to celebrity
social life, and as well as being a
music magazine it focuses on gossip
as well.

4. The target audience for this magazine I
would say is young males of the ages
between 17 and 25. The magazine
context is about hip-hop, rap. We can
tell this because the striking image that
has been used as the main image. It
mentions names well known in the hip-
hop industry such as Ice Cube, and The
Game. This magazine would appeal
mainly to males because there is one
male on the front cover, and the cover
only mentions names of males. However
it still may have a female audience out
their because the genre of the music
itself is appealing to both genders. The
image itself of the artists „The Game‟
suggests that the magazine is giving of
the image of violence and death I get
this feeling because the pose being
done is imitating guns, this is another
reason in which I would say its aimed at
older males. The bold colours of the
heading are impressive as they are bold
and stand out.

6. This front cover of NME. Along with most
of the other covers from this
magazine, feature on some way or
another, a dominant colour scheme of
red and white, the simplicity of this
attracts both genders and a wider age
group target audience. This is
conventional of most music magazines
along with a title going across the whole
top of the cover completely from left to
right. They are always bold in order to
be recognisable by the audience that
reads them, this is something not only
NME do with their magazines. With this
magazine cover they have taken the
best parts of interviews titles and topics
in the magazine to make the cover so
striking, this is a way of engaging the
audience to read the magazine. This is
something I am possibly going to do
with my magazine. Unlike most
magazine covers this has used a close
close up of the artist as the covers main
image which is something I would also

8. This contents page is from the magazine VIBE, a
magazine mainly based on the genre of RnB. I have
chosen this contents page to analyse because I really like
how it laid out. I'm really attracted to it due to its
simplicity. I love how simple and plain it could be
perceived, I think this has worked with this cover as its still
effective in doing the job its meant to do. Another thing
in which I like is how the word „CONTENTS‟ has been split
up into sections, this a really creative way of making the
simple contents page seem high class. The fact that the
text is all set out on the right hand side of the page and
the majority of the picture is set out down the left hand
side of the page I think this gives the contents page a
very organised neat look. I also like the use of
grey/black/white, as I think those particular colours go
well together and the way the white part at the top of
the page contrasts with the black letters in
„CONTENTS‟, as well as this being simple its means that the
magazine could be aimed at both males and females. I
do however think that the target audience for this
particular contents page would be more females than
males due to the main image of a lady and the position
in which she is laid in. there is a slightly darker shade of
grey around the outside of the page I like this effect as I
think it gives the figure of the celebrity a lit up effect
almost as though she is led in a spotlight, making her the
main attraction of the page. I also like the font of the
writing of what's inside the magazine, as i think it looks
very sophisticated and classy. and the important parts of
the writing is in bold so the more important, informative
parts of the test stands out.

9. The genre at which the contents page is
aiming at is R&B and the reason for me
knowing this is because of the person whom
the picture is of, in this case Usher. Usher
tends to do his music around the genre R&B
and thus therefore telling me that the
magazine contents page is R&B related. The
target audience in which the contents page
is attracting for this magazine is an age group
between 15-20 year old's or Students in
particular as they tend to buy magazines of
this type of music as it interests them. The
layout of this contents page is 7 paragraphs
down the left hand side of the page
describing the features in which are in this
magazine, there is also a large image of
Usher on the right hand side of the page as
this will attract people who like usher and in
this magazines case students or younger
aged people. The representation of the
magazine shows the genre of the music as
the image in which is on the cover is of Usher
and he has attitude in which is being shown
though his posture and the way he is stood.

11. Mojo's contents page is unusual compared to
previous music magazines that have been looked
at. It uses a two colour scheme and image
predominant, although this is similar there is only
one photograph on the page which is visually
disturbing of the artist: Alice Cooper naked with
black snake covering him. This following the style
of the magazine, controversial and daring
focusing on rock music and old bands. It is a very
dark image and his face, hair and eyes look
tired, dirty and messy. He laying in front of a plain
background that is the colour for the whole
page, dark grey; also following the rock and roll
genre.
The text is very simplistic in either bold red for page
numbers or bold words for the titles and plain
black for the description underneath. It is written in
two short columns displaying the simplicity. The first
column is titled: FEATURES, the other one is named
COVER STORIES THE MAKING OF BOB DYLAN. The
titles of the article is written in capital letters e.g.
ALICE COOPER whereas the rest in is lower case.
Other text includes the date, issue number which
hasn't been featured in other magazine that have
been viewed. Also the page number and different
countries or a street under the mast head that is
placed at the top. There is a quote that follows
the image in lower case and a description in
capitals below in red and black text.

13. This article is of Q magazine about Lady Gaga. There isn‟t a colour scheme of the
article as such, but it does follows the main magazine colour scheme which is the
white and red, and the image is in black and white. The simplicity of this works well,
its easy to read yet still very eye catching. The huge „L‟ that is the first letter of the
article makes the text side of the page look very dramatic, especially because the
„L‟ straight away makes the reader think of Lady Gaga even thought there is not
title or caption. The „L‟ also draws the whole page together, it‟s a simple thing to do
which can have a big impact on the reader as to whether they would read the
article. The text is in black which is simple and makes it looks intense because it fills
the page head to bottom. The „L‟ can be seen over the text but the text is equally
legible, this use of huge lettering is actually quite common in Q magazine.
Furthermore the small Lady Gaga in the top right-hand corner is almost timid
confronted with the „L‟.

14. The photograph in double page spread flows over ¾ of the two pages and the
article is set on one side, this works as it gives a sense of emotion to the pages.. The
photograph is also in sepia which represents his classic „vintage‟ rock style and
musical taste. The Sepia tone also links in with the sepia tone of their album
cover, which is clever simple yet very effective way of getting their point across. The
way there is a lighter within the page also represents his typical “rock & roll lifestyle"
giving people who don‟t necessarily know his bands music an insight on what style it
is.
Within the introduction to the interview, there are informal words such as “geezer”
which shows the casualness of the following article. The article begins with a drop
cap to make it clear on where it actually starts – simple, but very effective. This
magazine double page spread is really strong in my eye's and really inspires me as to
what I may do with my own, I love the fact that unlike most Rock and Roll magazines
which use bold colours and layouts to display their context the simplicity of the

15. The is a double page from flavour magazine, and features Alexandra burke.
Straight away we can get a sense that this article in particular is mainly being
targeted to females. Its simplicity of just having one image using up the whole
page draws the article into one because you know for certain who the article is
going to be . The double page spread using the convention of 1 big image just
like many other magazines have done, this is a simple technique that works well.
As well as doing this they have also used a basic colour scheme, when I say
basic I mean that their isn't really one as there isn't much room for colour to be
brought into the page. However the colour scheme which you could say this
uses is white, black and pink, yet again this is another way of conveying the fact
that the target audience to this article in particular is going to be females. Some
may argue that from the long shot of the singer in a very short dress could also
be appealing to the male audience.