The document summarizes and analyzes the graphic elements featured on contents pages in different lifestyle magazines. For one magazine focused on travel, the main image shows a beach town and smaller holiday/beach pictures related to a "Dream Escapes" section. Another image depicts outfits for travel. A third prompts readers to a "What to pack" section. A second magazine focuses on countryside living, with images pertaining to gardening, weddings, families, and baking. The final magazine features an attractive male model on the beach, using such imagery to portray ideal body types for both male readers and what women desire.

1. Research task 4
Graphic elements in lifestyle magazines

2. In this lifestyle magazine the Graphic elements
include a number of different themes featured in
the magazine. Firstly, the main image featured is of
town by the beach along with a few other smaller
images of holidays and beaches. This relates to the
title of the contents page "Dream Escapes" as it is
showing audiences some of the best locations to go
abroad to. Another image on this page is of a
women in a dress. This is showing audience's the
sort of outfits to wear on holiday. Finally, the last
image comes with the caption "What to pack" this is
obviously showing audiences that there will be a
section in the magazine on the best items to pack
when going abroad to these suggested places.

3. In this contents page of a lifestyle magazine, there are a
lot of graphic elements. Some of the images are to do
with gardening and furniture around cottages. This could
be showing audiences the best ways to furniture their
cottages and design their gardens. Another couple of the
images are to do with weddings and families. This most
likely means there is sections on motherhood and
countryside weddings. Finally, one of the images is about
baking. All of the images connote to the countryside life
away from major cities. All of the images also feature
numbers on them which most likely are the pages in the
magazine that you could find the sections based on the
pictures you want to choose from.

4. The image in this magazine contents
page is of an attractive male model
crawling in the sand on a beach.
These kinds of magazines feature
images like this as it’s the ideal body
type for men to have and the body
type women want men to have.