1. Analysing Music Magazines

2. What does each colour make you think of (the connotations)?
What does each font make you think of (the connotations)?

3. Analysing Music Magazines
Key Tips:
• Don’t just annotate the pages, write a detailed
analysis for each page
• Use media terminology
• Refer to specific examples from the magazine
pages
• Explain the effect of each example you use
• Use terms like connotations or signifies

4. Typography
• What font styles are used?
• What are the connotations of the font (what
do they suggest)?
• What effect do you think the fonts are
supposed to have on the audience?
• Why were the font styles chosen?

5. Layout
• Is the layout cluttered or order?
• What effect does this have?
• Does the layout follow the route of the eye
and/or the principle of thirds?
• What is the ratio of image to text?
• Why is the page laid out like this?

6. Colour
• What colours are used?
• What do the colours connote?
• Why have these colours been chosen?
• Colour Connotations

7. Images
• What shot types and angles were used?
• What is the effect of the shot type
and/or angle?
• What effect does the mise-en-scene
have?
• Why were the props, costumes,
locations, etc. used?
• What do they signify?

8. Mode of Address
• How does the magazine ‘speak’ to its
audience?
• What language is used?
• What impression do the fonts, colours,
etc. have?

9. • Typography
• Layout
• Colour
• Image
• Mode of address

10. • Typography
• Layout
• Colour
• Image
• Mode of address

11. • Typography
• Layout
• Colour
• Image
• Mode of address

12. • Typography
• Layout
• Colour
• Image
• Mode of address

13. Headline
Standfirst
Byline
Caption
Coverline
Cover Story
Feature
Kicker
Layout
Masthead
Pull Quote
Serif Font
Sans Serif Font

14. Analysis
In pairs choose one of the magazines and
analyse the front cover and double page
spread. Bullet point your key points under the
following headings:
• Typography
• Layout
• Colour
• Image
• Mode of address

15. Coursework Blogs
You present all your work for the main task on
an individual coursework blog.
You will need to set up your blog and give the
address to me.
The site we recommend you use is blogger:
www.blogger.com

16. Assessment
We will be assessing your analysis of music
magazines in two weeks time.
By the 25th of November you should have
analysed the front cover, contents page, and
double page spread from 3 magazines similar
to the one you are going to produce.
This analysis must be placed onto you blog.

17. Resources for this unit are available
on the Media Department blog