MAGZINE ANALYSISCOVER PAGE,CONTENT PAGE

& DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Different types of Magazines Women magazines Mens magazines Travel magazines Fashion magazines Car magazine Motorcycle magazine Fishing magazine Sports magazines Food magazines

The Genre,s i have choosen for my magazine analysis are

TRAVEL

GAMING

BIKES

First of all the travel magazines

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER

LONELY PLANET TRAVELER

MAIN COVER

LAYOUT

MAIN IMAGE

MAST HEAD

FEATURE HEAD LINE

PULL QUOTE

Plug/Header

Bar code / Date & time

Description of cover

LAYOUT :The margin of the magazine it is in nat geo logo shape in light yellow colour and the context written inside it is easily readable MAIN IMAGE:

The main image of cover is of venice(city of italy) evening scene . The image Showing one of the canal of venice ,boats,old european structure buildings,A Dome shape temple in the back,and a clear blue sky. This main image is Clearly giving a proper scene of venice in evening. It can attract many touristsTo choose venice as their travel destination.

MAST HEAD:It uses the national geographic logo and traveller to show that it is nationalGeographic travell magazine . It is easily recognizable magazine internationallyThe font in which traveller is written is sans serif , clear , bold and formal .

Feature head line:“Return to venice “ is a feature head line in cover . The heading is written abovebuildings and infront of skyin clear black and Bold serif Font. So that any one Can easily easily understand that magazine is primiraly more focused on Venice Rather than any other topics in magazine like mexico,island of zen,adventure inAfrica.

Pull quote:

“UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES ....“

It give us a clear idea about what the magazine inside have . In easy words mysteries And secrets of venice...

Plug headers:Small headings to draw some extra attention to audience. For ex in this cover .” Buzz in mexico” “adventure in africa “....

Bar code/ time and date:

A common convection in all magazines need in order to purchase magazine.4.99$ price is not too much everyone can easily buy it specially the middle Class and high class audience.

OVER ALL IMPRESSION OF COVER PAGE:THIS IS A TRAVEL MAGAZINE . IT IS PRIMIRALY MORE FOCUSED ON LIFESTYLE,CULTURE,TRAVELLING,FOOD, NATURE ETC. IT ATTRACTS A TARGET AUDIENCE OF 24-60 YEAR OLD AGES.

HEADING

SUB -IMAGES

CONTENT PAGE

Description of content page:

Heading:- The content heading is written in bold white colour over a light dim brown colour which make it formal at the top of the page.

SUB-IMAGES:-There is only few colourfull flages and some sketches (pictures) are used in content page this tells about the article inside it . The main image used a simple black tiger face sketch. Each image show a sketch of a deer, tiger and rhina face placed in a house.

Colour Scheme:- It is very simple, it uses only 2-3 ;light dim colours for example white,yellow ,brown,and touch of black. It is the best idea to represent content page.

Layout:- The Layout is very simple easily readable and understandableAnd splited into 3 sectors. Main topics,content department, Routine topics and sub-images. Apart from the main topics the minor topics are listed in a section called “DEPARTMENTS”..

NOW WE TALK ABOUT THE DOUBLE SPREAD OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER MAGAZINE .........

The DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD MAIN HEADING

Description of double page spread:-

Main Heading:- “Venice canal capers “ It describe about venice canal capers. The language used is informal,small to attract all young and old ages audience.

COLOUR SCHEME:- the colour scheme is very bright . Sky blue, light blue, white and dim light brown. It looks almost natural.The image now giving a clear indication what is the heading on main cover printed. The image is in landscape mood . It shows life style of venice , the canal capers, buildings,and the dome shape temple in the cover is now can clearly and easily seen in a full landscape mode.The main focus in this image is venice canal capers(main mean of transport in venice) and canal. The picture will definately attract as much as travelling oriented people also holiday spenders because of the extreme beauty of venice is shown in image.

Travel magazine (2) Name of magzine: Lonely planet

Layout

Mast Head

MAIN IMAGE

FEATURE HEAD LINE

PLUG HEADER

PULL QUOTE

LAYOUT: layout is dark blue with Articles of magazines printed on it with “discover the magazine “ statement. Lonely planet Logo is also present on the top of lay out.

MAIN IMAGE :- Main image is of the great wall of china but magazine is of UAE Special edition and using the image of great wall of china what makes the sense ? It tells the audience that magazine main article is on CHINA also the main plug header supporting it by “CHINA PERFECT TRIP”

MAST HEAD:-the mast head consists of BOLD san serif fonts (as like nat geo traveller ) with lonely planet logo and edition date and country.

PLUG-HEADERS :- the plug headers are very unique and simple Each plug header had its own importance for ex david attenborough famous and favourite travel destinations.

overall the cover is simple as like nat geo traveller . It is also showing the Locally uae produced stamp and the 6 free mini guides It will attract more audience than nat geo traveller magazine because of its vast features and free guides.

Content page

LAYOUT:The layout is very simple it is in plain white colour and lonely planet logo printed on it with edition date.

SUB IMAGES:- the sub images are of beautiful landscapes and a inside view of a palace they surely attract more than enough audience bcz in nat geo traveller there is no images like these this is the best idea to post landscape images on a travell magazine to attract as much audience as the author can.combition of beach, island,mountain with snow, park scene and a palace scene is just perfect.

Headings:- in the content page there are many headings like post cards,our planet,5 easy trips, arm chair traveller,etc.

COLOUR SCHEME:- the colour scheme except the sub images is totally white which is good and use of dark colours for fonts is also a realiable idea .

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

MAIN HEADING :” ON THIN ICE” this statement clearly giving a meaning that article is about a place where ice is thin or just few Centimeter above ground level. If we see clearly the main image of double page spread clearly indicating the place LADAKH (india) and supporting the statement “on thin ice”

Colour scheme:- The colour scheme is white, brown and light black (water in lake) the colour scheme is consists oftotally natural colours and sunlight.

Overall impression and analysis:- The colours of dps is very natural, sharp,Vivod, the Ladakh is the place in india where himalayas have a great altitude the story,statement and image are all interconnected.the article also supporting the idea that this is beautiful terrain , adventure travellers must come here and enjoy the scenery. This magazine dps attracts a target audiences of travel enthusiastics of age 24-40..