Analyse two popular magazines closely. Your analysis of the two magazines will be 1000 words in length. If you choose to present your analysis in an oral to the class it must take a minimum of 3 minutes. Whichever way you choose to go you must at the very least provide a photo copy of the magazine cover to me.
Terms you will need to know and use in your analysis are:
• Form: What form do the magazines take? What is their structure? Describe the structure of the magazine cover. How is the magazine set up? What size is it? Why? What engages the eye first and why? How the elements placed and what are the aims of this? Explain how the feature image represents or reflects the audience in particular their age, interests and foci.
• Audience: Who are the magazines aimed at? Magazines are very specific about whom they target. Not only will you have to be able to recognise the sex and the age of the audience but you must also establish the social context – the audience’s interests spending power, role in the household, the issues that are important to them. (You may need to address more than the cover to clarify this). Sometimes it helps to look at what is missing rather than what is there.
• Purpose: What are the purposes of the magazine? What are the reasons for existing? Is the role to inform, persuade, inform and persuade, to entertain or what? What elements of bias do the individual magazines represent?
• Context: Where can the magazine (s)be found or purchased? How does the cover depict issues, ideas and attitudes in society? Connect the type of articles being presented to the interests of the target audience.
• Style: How do all the elements such as colour, layout, image and language combine to create a particular tone and image for the magazine?
• Language: What type or level of language is used to get the message across in this magazine and what does this say about the audience? Explain how emotive language, icons or graphics are used to highlight stories and engage the audience.
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