CASE STUDY MAGAZINE

ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE This is a monthly

published magazine that consist of acoustic music.

“THE UK’S ONLY DEDICATED GUITAR MAGAZINE”

This magazine targets both male and female who are interested in acoustic music. It also targets mostly the younger generation including young adults and teenagers

ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE•Type/focus magazine – The music genre that consist in this magazine is all acoustic music, bands and artist. For Example It conveys well known acoustic artist such as Ben Howard.

•Publishing company –The publishing company of this magazine is ‘ACOUSTIC’ as it enhances and create straight to the point impression towards the audience that this is an acoustic based magazine.•Editor’s name -Guy Little

•Date of first published -It was firs published at July/August 1990.

•Frequency of publication – This magazine is published monthly.

•Price – This magazine cost £4.25

•Distribution – HMV, music stores and concert venues

Mast head is included – bold and easy to read. The colour for it is white which therefore stands out from the background colour of the magazine front cover.

Fonts are all in capitals – easy to read and emphasis the importance of its contents

Main star/icon is included. It is centralised and taken in a long shot. This image is also covers a little bit of the mast head which most magazine does.Cove lines are included that link in to the article that will be featured in this magazine. They look simple and formal – look professional. Some are bold to highlight important features.

Barcode is also included like a normal and professional magazine

Background colour behind cover lines to make the text stands out and for audience to be easier to be read.

COVER ANALYSIS

CONTENTS ANALYSISLarge page numbers in photos link to features

Large photo at top links to cover feature

Contents are arrange in columns to make it more organised.

Sub headings to introduce the features that will be covered in this magazine – its also written in bigger font size

Images are also included to reflect on the presented feature.

Font size are consistent – sub headings have the same font size and style which is bigger than the information below to enhance the fact that it is a new and separate feature

Page numbers are easily recognisable

Issue number on the top – also written in capital letters and in bold.

Issue date on the top

Sub headings has a background colour to highlight the fact that it is a separate article.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD ANALYSIS

Sub heading on the top on both pages.

Big picture in the middle of the artist that the article is featuring.

The image look fits in with the theme of acoustic as the image gives an indie/alternative kind of impression.Lighting is quite low specially on the artist to create shadow Texts are separated

in three columns

Texts are small

Consistent type face all through out the double page

A smaller image on the right hand top corner to break up the page and to also reflect on the article

A “pull quote” is highlighted in large font centre of page

Issue date on the bottom of both pages.

Simple and professional use of background colour (white) – easy for readers to read.

Lines were used to highlight the pull quote – makes it more stands out.

Text wraps around the photos and pull quote

NME MAGAZINE•This is a weekly published magazine that consist of many types of music genre such as rock, indie, rap and hip-hop

•This magazine targets both male and female who are interested in rock, indie, rap and hip-hop music. It also targets mostly the younger generation including young adults and teenagers

•“ THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE WEEK IN MUSIC”

NME MAGAZINE•Type/focus magazine – The music genre that consist in this magazine are rock, indie, rap and hip-hop music bands and artist. For Example It conveys well known acoustic artist such as Florence and the Machine.

•Publishing company – the publishing company of this magazine is NME which stand for The New Musical Express.

•Editor’s name – Mike Williams was named as NME editor on 31 May 2012, taking over from Krissi Murison on 25 June 2012

•Date of first published – March 1952

•Frequency of publication – this magazine is published weekly

•Price – £2.30

•Distribution – HMV, music stores and concert venues

Fonts are all in capitals – easy to read and emphasis the importance of its contents

Main stars/icon is included. It is centralised and taken in a medium long shot. This image is also covers a little bit of the mast head which most magazine does. The main singer of this band is in front of all the other members making him the main focus of the photo.Cove lines are included that link in to the article that will be featured in this magazine. They look simple and formal – look professional. They are all mostly bold to highlight important features.

Barcode is also included like a normal and professional magazineMast head is included. Its bold and easily read. It also follows the colour scheme of this cover.

Puff is included which is a sphere shape to attract audience.

Background colours are black and white which makes the cover lines more stand out as they have used different colours to the text.

Large photo at top links to cover feature Contents are

arrange in columns to make it more organised.

Sub headings to introduce the features that will be covered in this magazine – its also written in bigger font size and has a background colour to make it more stand out.

Page numbers are easily recognisable as they are in different colour than the other texts.

Issue date on the top

Font size are consistent – sub headings have the same font size and style which is bigger than the information below to enhance the fact that it is a new and separate feature

Advertisements are also in the content page.

Use of colours are blacks and white which gives an professional impression.

Big main image is spread across the two pages.

Mast head is also included, which is written in white to contrast the background colour making it more noticeable.

Bigger letter to start the column

Has 6 columns in total.

Pull quote is also included

Background colour are white, making the page looks clean and professional.

Quotes are used on the right top hand side of the page and also to the bottom of the image.

Texts are written in a small font size.

Consistent use of font style.