Front cover, Content Page and double page spread analysis

By Marya

Layout: The layout is organised and formal, with a few overlaps which do not hide away too much of the other texts or images. It is laid out in a “L” shape in which allows the audiences a window of space to view the image which is bordered by titles and text.

The Front page Colours used:The colours used all compliment each other. The front page is very colourful and contain bright and “Jamaican” types of colours, such as: Red, green, yellow, orange and white (which is a different colour to all others and it`s purpose is to contrast.) The fact that the background is mainly orange and the title layered on is yellow, stand out and catches the audiences eyes. Barcode: The barcode

could be scanned by smartphones to get onto the website and to find out more. It is also colourful to bring the audiences attention to it, unlike the date and price.

Date and price: $2.99 / $3000JA which converts to £1.86pence. The price is the smallest size text in the whole of the front page which is done to brig less attention to it.

Front page

Pull quotes: “Queen Ifrica targeted” this is a pull quote as it lures the readers in and makes them want to read more about why queen ifrica (female reggae singer) is being targeted and by who.“delawares tribute to bob marley”Delaware is a country, besides maryland and is well known for their reggae festivals. This is used as a pull quote as it intrigues certain people and they want to know what happened on the tribute.

Masthead: This title is colourful and unique in its design. The different uses of colour is not gender bias, and they blend into the next colour. Giving it a rainbow effect, which no other magazine has. The title is also mostly underlined this gives an effect of formality but yet a hint of difference from other magazine, due to the running line, which could show that they are unlike and not the same as other magazines.

Plugs:There are technically no plugs, but yet it could be argued that at the top of the magazine, there are 2 names of artists and one leader. This could be saying that there will be pages on them. Also I would like to mention the fact that the leader “Nelson Mandela” is in the middle of the 2 artists which could show power and authority or even legacy.

Finally, the feature headline ..

“chronixx artist of the year” this gains the attention of fans of chronixx, which is again a reggae artist who has worked his way up. The feature headline is the biggest headline, takes lower center position. It is also yellow and thus stands out from the background and other texts. This then catches the peoples attention, especially fans of chronixx would definitely buy it to see what is said about him

This is the content page, over in the next slide this will be broken down

and analysed.

Title of content page, but yet could also just be a footer for the pages and thus leaving a box for the content page. As you may have noticed that there are no pages on the contents, this could imply the fact that the magazine is pretty simple and the pages are identifiable without page numbers.Also the page titles are in yellow and the name of the writers or photographers of the pages are in white. Furthermore the title is a bigger font than the rest of the text. The rest of the page is dedicated to the editor, the “Letter from the Editor”

The layout here is pretty simple. There are 4 equal sized squares that contain either an image of people, food or a Coloured square that has text inside instead. This represents the different pages that will be in the magazine pages. Also the image on the bottom right has the character from the front page which shows consistency.

The colour scheme just on the content page is green, brown and yellow. Again this is constant and the yellow box grabs peoples attention.

In this double page spread there are a collage of pictures taken at a Jamaican festival. There are no headings, no quotes, no text at all and therefore I cannot analyse the text.

The images are faded out and placed on top of each other carefully so that people`s faces do not get covered up. It gives an idea of how the festival was like and everyone seems to be happy and smiling or dancing with one and other. It features all the people who were there and took part therefore they might buy the magazine for that simple reason that they will be in the magazines double page spread. In addition the layout is very simple, most the page is filled with images and an 8th of the bottom of the page is plain. This is all seperated by a red line.