Unit 4: Assignment #1: Magazine analysis

Unit 4: Assignment #1
Set: Thur Sept 22
Due: Tues Sept 27

Your first task is to collect a range of examples of magazines: 3-5 examples.  Get a range of magazines for DIFFERENT audiences and purposes.  Try to avoid having all fashion and 2 magazines that are informative magazines (one’s that are not advert focused but have a lot of articles and editorials). You are NOT making

Make a powerpoint (or be adventurous and use a new program like prezi http://prezi.com/) and discuss the following things for each magazine:

Use Pascoe to complete an analysis
P purpose
A audience
S style
C content
O organisation
E effect

1. What is the name of the magazine and what is its overall purpose? How do you know this?
a) Why do you think the magazine gave it the name that it has? What about the logo design?
2. Who is the target audience of the magazine? How do you know this?
a) Consider details of target audience: age, gender, ethnicity, interests/hobbies, values, attitudes, lifestyle, social status, income, consumer behaviour etc.)
3. What are your comments about the overall style of the magazine?
4. What is the content of the magazine? (what kinds of things do they feature or write about?)
5. How do they organise the magazine? What are your comments about the layout?  (consider, design, shapes/colours, font style, text boxes, bullet points, titles etc)
6. What is the effect of the magazine on the audience? (consider emotions)