Case Study Part 2- Analysing the Front Cover of The Magazine

Formative blog feedback - Miss Hunter

Fatima, your blog is looking very good. Well done.



So far:



WWW: Your ideas are thorough, detailed and thoughtful. You understand the conventions of a magazine and I can see that you have used them in the preliminary task.



EBI: Make sure that you always relate everything to target audience, particularly in the colour analysis section of your case study.



Next steps:

• Continue with your case study of a magazine of your choice.
• Create a presentation explaining what the target audience will be for your own music magazine.

Keep up the good effort.

Case Study - Part 1

My Language Analysis

My magazine colour analysis

My contents page

My first magazine cover

My second editors letters analysis

Seventeen magazine:

• This editors letter is different from other letters because it begins and ends with speech marks would show that this is set up as a speech instead of a letter. 
• When she says that ' I've recently heard from some girls who were concerned that we'd strayed from our promise to show real girls as they really are.' This quote shows that this letter is very similar to an agony aunt letter addressing issues and insecurities. 
• This letter also makes the target audience very clear because insecurities about the definition of 'real women' usually occur at teenage years going onto early 20s.
• This letter is trying to highlight the objective of this particular issue, which is 'learning how to live with yourself', creating a body peace treaty.

Magazine editors letter analysis

Magazine editors letter analysis

Easy living magazine:

• This editors letter tries to involve the target audience which is females aged from 25-50 because it is about women balancing work life with their family life. When you first see the page 'Welcome' is written in huge letters to capture the attention of the reader. The letters are also smoothly going on to the next so it does try to make the reader comfortable.
• When she starts by saying that ' As every mother knows,' this shows us that is a letter that she is not writing just for her benefit but she is talking about the experience of other mothers that were in her position that help involve them and keeping their interest.
• The editor has also included he fact that 'we have interviewed a truly brave women, Zoe Savage,one of a small number of sargents in the Royal Artillery, who happens to be a mother of two.' This sentence shows us that his magazine isn't  just a fashion magazine as the images of the dress and accessories suggest but has an inspirational story.
• The mid shot going up of the editor  with an open book shows that she was reading with in turn shows us that she is indirectly trying to tell the audience to read the letter.

IDEAS FOR THE LAYOUT OF MY FRONT COVER

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Preliminary title/sketched plan for my school magazine

POSSIBLE TITLES:

• What makes the school work?
• Work the school.
• Free Time
• Calendar
• Interview with Head boy and Head girl

POSSIBLE MAIN IMAGE ON FRONT COVER:

• The common room filled with people having fun using a wide shot from the entrance.
• A wide shot of the students moving around the school.
• A picture of the school from the outside covering the top of the cover.

POSSIBLE COVER LINES/ARTICLES:

• A level and GCSE results released 
• How to help avoid stress
• Competition for a new iPod
• Recipes and instructions to make food of the month.
• Quiz 

MAGAZINE CONTENTS PAGE ANNOTATIONS