The document provides an analysis of the design elements of a dance music magazine cover and contents pages, including: - The cover uses bright pink, white and black colours to target a younger audience for dance music. Bright colours make it stand out from other magazines. - Photography on the cover and contents shows artists in a studio or posing casually to portray the dance music genre. - Layout has a 50/50 text to image ratio to provide information to encourage sales while retaining a visual focus appropriate for the intended readers. - Fonts, graphics and design elements like slanted text give the magazine an edgy, fun look fitting for its dance music audience.

2. Colour Schemes – Colours used are pink, white and black. This suggests the genre dance music. The
colour scheme is less serious so they can target a younger audience. The colours are bright and stand
out against other music magazines which are usually black, white and red. With the colours been so
bright the magazine could of come out in summer time.
Photography – The picture Writing style – For a front
has been taken in a studio, cover there is quite a lot of
this is normal for a magazine writing on it. It is also quite
front cover. It also shows small which is also unusual, as
who the main feature is in they uses it to get people to
the magazine. a close mid buy the magazine. However
shot has been used. His the colour of the texts makes
pose is natural looking, but it it stand out so that could be
is hard to tell with the used to attract people. The
sunglasses on. It looks like text on the cover tell people
someone has caught him what is going to be in the
unaware, yet he still looks magazine, this is likely to
cool and relaxed. The main make people buy it especially
focus is on his face as his if they see things that they
white jacket blends into the really want to read. There is a
background making it the lot of competitions on the
larger object. His yellow t- cover, this gives the reader
shirt also stands out and chance to live the ultimate
makes the image bright. We clubbing life. The reading
can tell what kind of level is easy to the majority of
magazine it is from the image and what he is wearing. We wouldn’t the target audience can read
expect such bright colours or sunglasses to be worn on a rock magazine it.
front cover suggesting it is a dance/clubbing magazine.

3. Overall Look – The overall look to the magazine is edgy and fun. The bright colours make the magazine
look interesting and fun. The slanted text and image make the magazine different from others and gives it
an edge. We can tell that it is a dance and clubbing magazine from the way it looks.
Text / picture ratio – I
think the text/picture Fonts – The masthead is
ratio is about 50/50 . done in a different text,
There is one big picture which is large, bold and
on the cover this gives the bubbly. This gives us an
magazine which is normal indication that it is a
for magazine covers to dance/clubbing magazine
have but it is surrounded as it doesn’t look serious.
by a lot of text. Most The text changes for the
magazine covers don’t rest of the magazine. It is
have much text on them thin, modern and looks
however this one does. graphic. This fits in well
They could of done this with the target audience as
because they want people they like to be up to date
to buy the magazine and if with the latest phones and
they have more IPods. The colour of the
information about the fonts are the colour
magazine then they could scheme and stand out
be more likely to buy it. against the image.

5. Colour Scheme – Different colour have been used on the contents page. The yellow from his top has
been used, but the pink colour isn’t so bright. The black and white has continued, which is the main base
of the colour scheme the other colours have been added to make it interesting and stand out.
Photography – Studio and
location images have been used
in the contents. This indicates
that they are the main story. The
other images seem to be more
graphic this is expect in a
dance/clubbing magazine. In the
larger images the people are
posing in them, the smaller
images seem natural or don’t
have people in them. The
images seem to have a lot
colour to them, making them
lively which relates to the genre
of magazine. The two lads are
wearing baseball hats with
brightly coloured clothes this
wouldn’t be seen in a rock/pop
magazine, neither would what Writing style – The writing is telling us what is going to be in the
the girl is wearing. The way the magazine. There isn't much but it is informative.
pose is also different to a
rock/pop magazine .

6. Overall look – The look to the contents page is young. The type of fonts, images, what they are wearing
and the lack or writing suggests this it also show who they are trying to target.
Text/picture ratio – On
this page there is more
images to text. This is the
least amount of writing I
have seen on a contents
page which suggest that
the reading level of the
magazine is quite low. With
it been a dance/clubbing
magazine the readers are
probably more interested
in what the people are
wearing, how they look
and what the latest gadget
is so they prefer to look at
images instead of reading
text. This is how they
Fonts – The fonts used for text and page numbers are very modern design their magazine to fit
and graphical which fits in with. The page numbers are in a larger size their target audience.
which suggests their importance.

8. Colour scheme – colours used on this page are black and white with a bit of pick, this stands out
against the other colours. The pink colour shows that it is a dance/clubbing magazine as a rock
magazine is more likely to use red black and white. This magazine hasn’t used the same colour scheme
all the way through therefore it doesn’t have a specific identity and probably changes it every time a
new magazine come out.
Photography – The picture
has been taken in a studio. The
pose is something that people
do naturally but they way he is
looking into the camera
suggests that it is posed. He is
wearing a jacket, tie and shirt.
This makes him smart, but the
white jacket takes the shows
that he isn’t that serious. They
have used a full page for the
image and only one which is
strange on a double page
spread that would normally
have more than one image of
him. There is anther image on
the other page in with the
text, however it isn’t him and
small which shows that it can’t Writing style – They have written a paragraph explaining bit about
be that important. Dizzee Rascal and then done a question and answer style. This has
taken away some class to the magazine. In the other magazine they
have set it out in a different way.

9. Overall look – Compared to the other magazines that I have analysed this page doesn’t look that
serious and doesn’t have as much class. However this is better because of the genre of magazine it is. It
does give us a impression that it is about a rapper this could be because of the image and text used.
Text/picture ratio – The
text picture ratio is quite
equal on this page. The text
takes up one side of the
page and the image the
other. It is quite unusual for
the text and images to be
quale as in most magazine
they tend to take up more
space with images. There is
quite a lot of writing on the
page but it is broken up by
questions and then the
answers to them questions.
I thought there would have
been more images on the
page than there is.
Fonts – The fonts are simple, modern and bold. This is so it fits in with
the target audience. The size is quite small so they can fit all the
writing on one page.