Fusion Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis

My third and final double page spread analysis. I can now see the norms of the insides of magazines so I will take all of my format research as inspiration and guidance as what is effective in producing a magazine double page spread.

Q Magazine Double Page Spread

This is my second analysis of a double page spread, so now I am starting to recognise the norms of the double page spreads which relate to how the magazine is trying to create a brand and create dramatic attention to their magazine.

Kerrang Double Page Spread

Our next task is to analyse double page spreads for a music magazine. I used kerrang magazine first of all because it looked quite simple to analyse and it gave me a baseline idea of what is the contents of a music magazine.

Kerrang Contents Analysis

This is my Kerrang contents page analysis.

Q Contents Page Analysis

My second contents page analysis - I used Q magazine.

NME Contents Page Analysis

This is my first music magazine contents page that I analysed - I used NME magazine.



NME Magazine Analysis

This is my third analysis of a music magazine front cover. This time I used NME because I haven't used this one before and I thought it would be interesting to analysis because the front cover was very crowded and there were wuite a few techniques that I could analyse.



School Contents Page Mock Up

Rolling Stone Analysis - Music

My second analysis of a music magazine - this time I used Rolling Stone.

First Music Magazine Analysis

As one of our coursework tasks is to create parts of a music magazine, we are now looking into analysis of music magazine front covers. I chose this front cover because many of the music magazine front covers look like this so I just chose a random one to do.

School Magazine Front Cover Evaluation

The front cover of my magazine follows all the norms that I saw when analysing. I included a flasher, strapline, cover lines, date number, issue number, barcode and a main image - therefore I do not think that my magazine is very 'basic' because I included all the elements to it. My photo that I took was of a part of the school that I thought looked quite good because it gave a nice portayal of the school. I have tried to do it as a full page image so it took up the whole page but that didnt't really work due to the time period I had to finish it. I would have ideally liked to have students posing in the main image but, again, due to time I could not do this.

To improve my magazine, I would put more time into it by doing different effects, but due to deadlines I was unable to do this. I would take a better photo that relates to the audience and I would try to understand the program we had to use a bit better, because I believe that this held me back as we only had one lesson to get to grips with it. I could have made my front cover look more professional if the deadline was more clear and the organisation was a lot better. I believe that the cover lines, strapline and flasher relate to the audience however I could have made the picture relate to the audience more but because I had no time after being told I wasn't allowed to use my first image, I was unable to get the sort of image that I wanted.