Task 9: Analysing Contents Pages

You should analyse a magazine contents page that relates to one of your front cover analysis e.g. NME cover and contents page:

1) Does the magazine use images? How have these image been constructed? How do they support your initial findings about the style of the magazine and its intended audience? How many images are there?

2) What colours and fonts are used? Does this support the style of the front cover? Is a house style being developed?

3) How is the information organised so that it is accessible to the audience? What are the different sections? What does this tell you about the magazine?

4) Are there any promotional features?

5) Is the magazine logo placed anywhere on the page? How dominant is it?
Does the brand have any other franchises? Are these promoted on the contents page?

Kerrang - Contents Page

MOJO - Contents Page

NME - Contents Page

HALF TERM DEADLINE...

All the work posted to this blog so far has to be completed by 3pm on Friday 12th February.
Any work posted after this date will not receive detailed feedback.
Please see me immediately if there is any reason you cannot meet this deadline (English trip is not a reason!).

Task 8: Choosing a Title Block

Now you have your results and have made some decisions about your magazine, you need to design the title block. Firstly you need to decide on a name for your magazine. You could set up a poll and invite the group to vote.
Then you need to design your font. 1001fonts.com is a really great website for this.
You will need to edit the image in Photoshop.
You could post a range of possible logos on your blog and ask people to vote again.

Good luck!

Task 7: Analysing Questionnaire Results

You should by now have handed out your questionnaire to at least 10 members of your target audience.

Now you need to present your findings. As many of your questions were closed questions you should find it quite easy to convert your results into a bar or pie chart. You can do this in Excel and then post them onto your blog.

Once you have noted all your results you need to write up your findings and conclusions. This should form a strong basis for your production ideas.