Actual Magazine Analysis (Contents) - Task 22

Actual Magazine Analysis (Contents) - Task 22

After completing the task about analysing the front cover of Mixmag, I went about to analyse the contents of the magazine. Analysing the contents was a much easier task as opposed to the front, because as you can see, the contents page doesn't really have a lot of features within it. But I did pick up on a lot of things which will help towards the development of my own magazine when the times comes around to creating it. Once again, I made a video log going around me explain the questions which were put out from my teachers within my media class. I'll be making blog posts about decent contents and seeing what is good about them and how they can be implemented when creating my own magazine.

Here are the questions with the timings once again so you can go to the questions answer explanation or you can click on the video to watch it all:

#1 How many images does the cover use; what does this mean for your own planning?

(0:55)

#2 How would you describe the layout? Would you say it was organised? Sleak? Uniform? Chaotic? Ordered? Boring? Interesting? Colourful? (2:19)

#3 What does the style suggest about the rest of the magazine? Look at the range of articles and contents (4:30)

#4 Does the cover artist feature on the contents page at all? (7:36) 

#5 Does it have an editors note? If it does what does this say about the ideology of the magazine?? (9:30)

#6 Does it have subscription information? (11:10)

#7 Does it have a competition? How does this attract or appeal to its target audience? (12:26)

#8 What kinds of images are on the contents page? How have they been manipulated if they have been? (14:10)