1. Professional Pages
Analysis Jordan Griffin

2. Front cover
• Has a clear colour scheme, black, red, and white. Quite
bold colours, and red and white stands out against the
black perfectly. ‘In your face’ kind of effect. Universal
colours also, not like pink where that would apply to
predominantly females, these colours can be favoured by
both sexes, and of all ages, showing no specific target
audience although it’s a mature page.
• Big masthead, grabbing attention from readers, this
allows them to quickly identify what brand of magazine it
is.
• Large writing in the centre shows what the main feature
of the magazine will be, making things clear to audience
yet again.
• Image behind all the text, linked to the massive text in the
middle. Image in black and white, doesn’t take any
distraction away from the page.
• Writing predominantly takes up most of the space on the
cover, again letting audience know what features this
edition of the magazine will include, also suggesting they
have a lot of material to talk about.

3. Contents Page
• Not the same magazine as front cover I
analysed, although similar colour scheme,
used for similar reasons I mentioned earlier.
• In this particular contents page, content and
text seems to play a minor role. The writing is
small, the text column is narrow.
• Many pictures on the contents page, giving
readers a more visual awareness of what to
expect in the forthcoming pages.
• No empty spaces, the contents page is filled
with boxes, text and images.
• No main feature on the page, everything here
has the same value despite image size.
There’s nothing that stands out incredibly
despite the large black and white image in
the centre, possibly more attention from
readers would be spent looking at that image
rather than other things on the contents page.

4. Double Page Spread • Again, not the same magazines as the
previous two pages but the same colour
scheme, making things consistent
regarding maturity and universal.
• Main image on left, shows personality of
artist, takes up an entire a4 page to
show the stature of the article/artist in
terms of importance to
magazine/personal success.
• Article on right, narrow columns, small
writing, layout like a newspaper, lot of
material in the article and used to fit on
the one page.
• Massive ‘L’ positioned behind the text,
allowing main body of text to overlap,
reasons for design elements. ‘L’ used as
the first letter of the artist. Makes things
more eyecatching.