The document analyzes several magazine covers and pages, noting similarities and differences across layout, design elements, and genre conventions. Key observations include the amount of image vs. text, number of images, consistency of branding, photography techniques, costume variety, font usage, and color schemes. Analyzing these student examples helped the researcher develop their own magazine cover ideas by exploring effective design choices and what works or doesn't work together visually.

1. Researching student work
Equal amount of image to text.
13 images across all four pages.
There is consistent brand identity
Quite formal language used.
The images have been composed as a long shot and medium long shot.
There isn’t much costume variety.
There isn’t a variety of font.
The font is quite bold.
The three main colours used are black, red and white.
The genre is evident due to the costume used, colour scheme and articles.

2. The front cover so the main image takes over most of the page and
covers some of the masthead, and includes sell lines, a main sell
line, puffs, barcode, date and a banner going across the bottom.
There is roughly the amount of image and text.
There are 6 images across the four pages.
The brand identity is quite consistent.
The images are mainly taken in a studio with a plain background,
and are mainly medium close up shots.
The costume is all quite similar.
There is a variety in font.
The font is mainly bold, however the font used on the mastheads is
different and harder to read. The colours it is in are white, yellow
and black.
The genre is evident by the photography and how the people in
the magazine are represented.

3. The pages have been laid out in a conventional way.
There is nearly the same amount of text to image ratio.
Across the four pages there are eight images.
The brand identity is consistent.
The language used will appeal to a young audience as it is quite informal.
The images have been composed as either medium close ups or long shots. They are quite
posed.
There is costume variety.
The is a bit of font variation, most of the font is quite and tall.
The main colours used are black, white and a dark red.
The genre is evident by the way the images are posed, the colour scheme and the language
used such as ‘rockin out’.

4. This research has helped me to develop my ideas, because it has allowed me to see work
produced by people who are similar to me as they were also students. It has also helped
me to develop my ideas by looking at different colour schemes to see what works
together and what doesn’t’.