Article Page Analysis

The following magazine uses images throughout the two pages. Which have been constructed very carefully and kept to the whole house style of the magazine. Also the fact that Jay-Z covers the word ‘Content’ implies his importance for the magazine or even his dominance in world of music by this day. In addition to this we can see that on the left side there are celebrities present who were on the cover page along with another celebrity which indicates importance of these stars or their status over the celebrities on the right, being more popular or talked about at the time being. House style remains the same throughout the whole magazine and this helps keep attention of the audience which could be a different type of groups due to what was mentioned before the variety of celebrities the magazine has to offer. Main colours used for this music magazine are red, black and white only exception would be the images of celebrities which have different backgrounds however they are presented in front of the white background of the magazine in order to make them stand out.

Main information about a certain article is presented to the audience in black font colour however names of the articles are in bold and larger letters which help the audience keep focus of what is going on in the magazine. Additionally to this the contents page has images of featuring articles which are present in the magazine itself which gives the audience a taste of what they are going to read. Also the numbers indicating pages vary in size, this could have been used to indicate importance or excitement certain celebrities have over the others and even suggest exclusivity of the articles. The information is presented neatly and sharp in order for the audience to be able to keep up with the information the magazine has to offer in addition to this each image is labelled with a number for the audience to see which page their main interest is on. Use of contrast colours make it easy for the audience to follow what is going on in what may seem as a complex contents page however as the audience familiarises with the house style and design of the magazine it is very easy to follow.

Different sections of the magazine show us how compact and straight forward the information is presented in order to give all the information possible and nothing more or less. What the audience may gather from these sections is that the magazine has a high budget and can give the best information about the celebrities of most interest in addition to this the magazine does not have any promotional features which suggests how they simply don’t rely on it to make a profit but make most of their profit from the information they provide and existing audience which they have gained over the past years. Furthermore the following pages do not have a logo but instead has the title of the magazine on top left, this has been done because of how short and simple the title is which allows it to be placed as a logo in addition to this the contrasting colours of the logo allows it to be seen straight away even when ‘hovering’ over the whole page it would be one of the first things which would catch an audiences eye.