1. Assignment 16: Research of
Magazines and Newspapers
Chelsea Fashole-Luke
Rosalin Zein
Russvictoria Monocillo
Marisha Inoke

2. CHELSEA

3. Chelsea
Dazed & Confused

4. Chelsea
Dazed & Confused
1.
What kind of things are in the magazine?
• Fashion, music, art, photography
2.
Who is the audience/target audience? How do you know? (look at
cover, adverts, style of writing, length of articles etc)
a.
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche audience. The magazine contains topics such as art, music and
culture, aimed at a niche audience of sophisticated young adults (19-24) who have
an interest in these topics, as well as non-mainstream music.
3.
How is the magazine organised/structures?
• Minimalistic. The cover usually has a headshot of the months cover star and the
articles are mostly plain text with images strategically arranged to look slightly out
of place in the text.

5. Chelsea
Dazed & Confused
• 4.
What are most of the pages about in the magazine
(fashion, technology, articles, adverts, Q&A etc)
• Fashion, music, lifestyle, articles.
• a.
How could your documentary fit into this?
• It could fit in as part of a lifestyle article
• 5.
By looking at the adverts, what do they advertise? (products, services?)
• a.
Extension: How does this connect to target audience?
• 6.
Where is the magazine available?
• Bookstores (whsmith etc.) and newsagents.

6. Chelsea
Comic Heroes

7. Chelsea
Comic Heroes
• 1.
What kind of things are in the magazine?
• Superheroes, different character profiles, facts etc.
• 2.
Who is the audience/target audience? How do you know? (look at cover,
adverts, style of writing, length of articles etc)
• a.
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche audience. Aimed at superhero/comic book lovers.
• 3.
How is the magazine organised/structures?
• a.
Where could your double-page spread, which is an article that features your
documentary, fit in?
• As the magazine has a futuristic element to it, our double page spread could fit in
amongst the technological side of the magazine

8. Chelsea
Comic Heroes
• 4.
What are most of the pages about in the magazine
(fashion, technology, articles, adverts, Q&A etc)
• articles
• a.
How could your documentary fit into this?
• It could relate to technology
• 5.
By looking at the adverts, what do they advertise? (products, services?)
• Superhero related products
• a.
Extension: How does this connect to target audience?
• Our target audience is all genders of all ages so the audience of this magazine
would be interested.
• 6.
Where is it magazine available?
• All good, leading bookstores.

9. Chelsea
Kerrang

10. Chelsea
Kerrang
• 1.
What kind of things are in the magazine?
• Music, bands etc.
• 2.
Who is the audience/target audience? How do you know? (look at
cover, adverts, style of writing, length of articles etc)
• a.
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche audience. Lover of rock/punk/alternative music. Mostly teenagers age 16-19.
• 3.
How is the magazine organised/structures?
• a.
Where could your double-page spread, which is an article that features your
documentary, fit in?
• As this is a genre-specific music magazine, our double page spread may not fit in
with the theme of the magazine.

11. Chelsea
Kerrang
• 4.
What are most of the pages about in the magazine
(fashion, technology, articles, adverts, Q&A etc)
• Articles, music, bands, gigs etc.
• a.
How could your documentary fit into this?
• Could possibly reach the audience of music lovers and fit in somewhere within the
magazine?
• 5.
By looking at the adverts, what do they advertise? (products, services?)
• Concerts/gig tickets
• a.
Extension: How does this connect to target audience?
• Young people who would use the internet to purchase their tickets and social
networks to talk about fave bands/artists etc.
• 6.
Where is it magazine available?
• Newsagents and bookstores.

12. Chelsea
Radio Times

13. Chelsea
Radio Times
• 1.
What kind of things are in the magazine?
• Articles, tv listings, tv shows
• 2.
Who is the audience/target audience? How do you know? (look at cover,
adverts, style of writing, length of articles etc)
• a.
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche: females of the ages 25-40. includes themes such as baking (stereotypically
female things)
• 3.
How is the magazine organised/structures?
• a.
Where could your double-page spread, which is an article that features your
documentary, fit it?
• It could fit in somewhere in the middle as a main article as it is a modern topic for all
ages to read about.

14. Chelsea
Radio Times
• 4.
What are most of the pages about in the magazine
(fashion, technology, articles, adverts, Q&A etc)
• Lifestyle
• a.
How could your documentary fit into this?
• Our documentary links to lifestyle
• 5.
By looking at the adverts, what do they advertise? (products, services?)
• a.
Extension: How does this connect to target audience?
• 6.
Where is it magazine available?
• All book/magazine stores

15. Chelsea
NME

16. Chelsea
NME
• 1.
What kind of things are in the magazine?
• Music, bands, artists etc.
• 2.
Who is the audience/target audience? How do you know? (look at
cover, adverts, style of writing, length of articles etc.)
• a.
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche. Targets a young audience who enjoy music that isn’t necessarily chart pop.
• 3.
How is the magazine organised/structures?
• a.
Where could your double-page spread, which is an article that features your
documentary, fit it?
• Perhaps towards the end of the magazine.

17. Chelsea
NME
• 4.
What are most of the pages about in the magazine
(fashion, technology, articles, adverts, Q&A etc)
• Articles, music, adverts
• a.
How could your documentary fit into this?
• 5.
By looking at the adverts, what do they advertise? (products, services?)
• Upcoming concerts and gigs in local areas
• a.
Extension: How does this connect to target audience?
• Our target audience is a wide range of people, so this reaches a portion of our
audience
• 6.
Where is it magazine available?
• Bookstores, newsagents

18. ROSIE

19. Rosalin
The Wire
The Wire is a magazine dedicated
to music – especially undiscovered
musicians.
In this magazine the tone could be
described as calm and peaceful
due to the use of white, cream and
light shades of brown.
This is the front cover of the
magazine and we can see that it
uses special effects and is an
example of visual hierarchy.

20. Rosalin
What kind of things are in this
magazine?
Free Sample CD
Comic Strip
Critics Review
Advertisements
Columnists chart

21. Target Audience
Rosalin
Niche Audience – the magazine is very minimalistic and the length of the
article is very long with very small sized font.
Target Audience
Age
18+
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
White
Interest
Music
Social Class
Any
Social Group
Music Lovers

22. Rosalin
Advertising
The price to advertise
ranges from £1600 to
£300.
There are also options to
advertise with or without
colour.

23. Double Page Spread
Summary of
article –
Also bigger size
than body text
Brightly
coloured
titles – Bigger
size than
body text.
Pictures spread
out over the
pages
Rosalin

24. Rosalin
The Lady
This magazine is aimed a women,
especially married women as many
of the articles within the magazine
are to do with the home,
decorating and cooking.
However, It does have interviews
with actors and celebrities.

25. What kinds of things are in this
magazine?
Advertisements
Recipes
Games
Reviews
Rosalin

26. Target Audience
Target Audience
Age
28 - 40
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
White
Interests
Home keeping, interviews with actors,
Social Class
Middle Class
Social Group
Rosalin

27. Rosalin
Advertising
The prices range
from £11.06 £128.41

28. Rosalin
Double Page Spread
Tile –
Bigger size &
different font to
body text
Captions on pictures
SubtitleDifferent font
to the body
text and title
Large letter at
beginning of article
Makes it stand out

29. Rosalin
Total Film
Total Film is a magazine dedicated
to films which means that most of
the articles are either about new
and upcoming films or reviews
about films that have been already
released.
It has a lot of interviews with
actors/actresses, exclusives and
previews from films.

30. What kinds of things are in this
magazine?
Interviews
New Releases
Rosalin

31. Target Audience
Target Audience
Age
16 - 25
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
White
Interest
Films, actors
Social Group
Film Fanatics
Rosalin

32. Rosalin
Double Page Spread
Effect on the Title
Banner
Visual Hierarchy –
The title, The
subtitle , The
Background
picture and then
the body text.
Pages are well
organised and clear,
easy to read

33. Rosalin
Double Page Spread
Really cool
mirror effect
on the title
and
background
picture.
Clear summary of the article –
The colour of the text contrasts with the background

34. Rosalin
Sci–Fi Now
This magazine has many articles on
sci-fi films and TV shows.
They have many interviews with
various actors from sci-fi films and TV
shows.

35. Rosalin
Target Audience
They have
identified their
audience as
being 80% males,
20% females
aged 20-45
They want to attract
consumers who invest
in the latest
technology, audiences
who invest heavily in
their favorite brands
and audiences who
interact with Sci-Now

36. Rosalin
Advertising
For the prices
you must
contact the
company

37. Rosalin
Double page spread
Visual hierarchy – Background image then title then subtitle
Border around page
makes it look like the
background image
is coming out of the
page.
Text box over
image – yellow
border makes it
stand out
Columns separated with lines

38. RUSS

39. Russ
Most of the content of the magazine was about
science fiction i.e Doctor Who
This is article is targeted at young adults or those who have watched the
original version of ‘Carrie’ because it is a remake of the film ‘Carrie’
This is targeted towards a mass audience because those who have watched
the old ‘Carrie’ might want to compare the difference between the then
and now ‘Carrie’
My double spread page article would be placed in the middle of the
magazine because it is where most article that are about upcoming
movies/ documentaries
The magazine contained articles
about the history of ‘Doctor Who’ and
the up and coming new episodes of
‘Doctor who’
The adverts are mostly about
upcoming films mostly sci-fi and/or
thriller and horror films
Magazines like these would be
available at super markets or
bookstores.

40. The Classic Rock magazine is mostly about bands,
and their upcoming songs
This is article is targeted at towards 18-25 yr olds
This is targeted towards a niche audience because most of the younger
generation would prefer to listen to newer songs which mostly revolves
around rnb and rap
My double spread page article would be placed in the middle of the
magazine because it is where most article that are about upcoming
movies/ documentaries
The magazine contained articles
about different bands or solo artists
talking about how they became
known or what they are going through
interms of their career
Magazines like these would be
available music stores such as HMV

42. MARISHA

43. The end.