Monday, 12 November 2012

Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread Analysis

 This is 'classical fm' magazine. The cover star looks very smart, her hair is tidy and her face is very clear. This links with the whole of the front cover as it is neat and tidy. The text font is very clear and easy to read, the plain background makes everything seem very sophisticated. The features in this magazine are all classical music related and the images about the main cover line 'composers at war' suggest this whole idea of being very sophisticated. The language of 'father of the nocturne' suggests that it is aimed at an upper class and adults as the higher classes and adults would use the phrase 'father' and lower classes and most children would use the phrase 'dad'. Just by looking at the two examples of contents pages you can see that it is aimed at a very traditional audience and an older audience as the white background and the easy to read font makes it simple to read and this would suit an older audience. The images clearly target a higher class and older audience just by the images in the contents pages. You can see a man in a suit straight away on one of them and this will straight away appeal to the higher class because they are more likely to wear them for either casual wear or to work. The other one shows two men at a piano, this helps to target the higher classes and older people as they are more likely  to listen to piano music than music with electric guitars and drums in. The double page spread shows one half of text and the other of a man in a suit with violins in the background. Violins are usually played by the higher classes so this would straight away aim at higher classes. The text looks very small and this would also help to target the specific audience as the targeted audience would be interested to read more as opposed to a sun newspaper reader which would contain very little text. The simplicity of the font again helps to aim at an older audience as they wouldn't want fancy font where they would struggle to read.


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