1. Assignment 16 - Magazines
Chelsea Fashole-Luke
Rosalin Zein
Russ Monocillo
Marisha Inoke

2. Rosalin

3. 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.

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

5. Target Audience
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

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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

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

11. Advertising
The prices range
from £11.06 £128.41

12. 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

13. 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.

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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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

20. Advertising
For the prices
you must
contact the
company

21. 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