magazine analysis

Tracey beaker is a magazine for a young target audience, younger than the tv drama sequences I have analysed, which is apparent by the features of it. For example the use of the bright colours such as blue, yellow and pink which are colours assioated with young children, the colours are appealing to both genders, the pink for girls, the blue for boys and yellow being a gender neutral colour. The magazine layout itself is quite cluttered with coverlines and pictures scattered all over the page. The main heading takes up most of the page which makes it eye catching and the font is like 'bubble' writing which is quite child like, it also uses stars and explosions within the main heading which would make it more appealing and eye catching as it is using both words and images. The use an image of the main character Tracey which would make it familiar to the child wanting to buy the magazine as she is recognisable from the tv show, The image is place conventionally in the middle of the page being the main focus around the hotspots. The logo, the character, the fonts and the colours are all used in the title sequence too so the audience would be familar with these and assosiate the magazine and the title sequence together.

The language used is fairly simple to appeal to a young audience, they use words such as 'fab' & 'wicked' which are words usually assosiated with young children and are also positive so the children would think that the activities but with these words will be a good experience. They try and addres the reader directly by using a speech bubble coming from Tracey so that reader wil think that she is connecting with them directly. Other features of a magazine that are included include a price and an issue number, the price is in a small font as the target audience wouldn't be paying for it so it wouldn't be an important feature they would look at to consider buying the magazine as the parents would buy it for them.

Sabrina secrets also uses bright colours, such as pink, yellow and purple which would appeal to a young audience (most likely female) the bright colours are used to section the magazine, purple for the masthead, yellow for the main section where the main image is and pink for one of the coverlines. the layout is quite cluttered with different images and coverlines scattered about the cover. The fonts used are simple and easy to read which would appeal to a young audience as they would be able to read it, the font is a serif font which means it is a curly type font, this makes the font look girly and young which would appeal to the target audience. The text is mostly on the left hand side which leaves the image on the right hand side

The main image is a mid shot of sabrina & her cat, the reader of the magazine would recognise them from the tv show. The other images on the cover are images of young girls which shows what age and gender the magazine is aimed at. Coverlines such as 'Nail-art' 'Make-up' 'Dance' & 'Sleepover Secrets' are another indication that this magazine is aimed at a young female reader are it is something they would want to read about. The route of the eye first goes across 'sabrina the teenage witch' logo which is in the same font and colour used on the TV titles so the target audience would be familar with the logo and it is recognisable. The route of the eye then goes through the various coverlines and the main image and then hits the 'Nail Art Pen' coverline which is also in a pink box so it stands out, the word 'FREE' is in capital letters so it stands out and draws attention to the fact that the nail pen is free, so it would persaude the target audience to buy it more.

Hannah montana magazine is aimed at children who are intrested in hannah montana herself, Hannah montana is a children's tv show about a teenage girl living a double life as a pop star. The target audience for the magazine are young girls as looking at the coverlines for the content of the magazine from the content of the magazine it includes things such as gossip, hair, fashion, crushes and secrets. The use of colour is like the other magazines of using pink, yellow and purple as theses are stereotypical 'girly' colours. this magazine also uses blue which could be used to attract a male audience too as the tv show is suppose to appeal both to the female and male audience. The front cover uses a midshot of Hannah Montana, using this shot allows the reader to see the costume of bright pink t-shirt & belt with a polkadot dress, the bright colours show the age of hannah montana as bright colours are something assosiated with youth. The use of bright colours in the costume also ties into the colour scheme of the magazine. Polkadots are also assosiated with young children. The use of the microphone shows that she is a singer and adds to her character, young girls would also relate to a microphone if they enjoyed singing and dancing like most young girls do. The face that she is pulling shows she is a happy, carefree teenage as she has a big grin on her face. The route of the eye begins with the masthead of the 'Hannah Montana' logo, the logo is the same logo used on the tv show so regular viewers will recognise it from when they watch it on the TV, the logo is glittery and bright which will attract the target audience as it is eye catching and also glittery and bright things are usually assosiated with young girls. The route of the eye then continues across the main image of Hannah Montana and across the left side of the magazine which is filled with coverlines and images of what to expect inside the magazine to draw the reader into buying it, the coverlines and the pug are in bright colours and are used to make them stand out and look exciting, one of them is advertising '3 super posters' this pug is in a pink explosion outlined in yellow to make it stand out against the blue background which would attract the reader to it which they would then want to buy the magazine more when they see they get posters of Hannah Montana in it. The use of the word 'Super' has positive connotations to it and the reader would feel positive from reading the word. The route of the eye then hits the famous Disney logo, the logo would be recognisable to everyone so the children will recognise it from watching the show or watching the disney channel or disney movies in general and also parents will see the logo which if they haven't seen any disney shows before they can take the logo as a reassurance that the magazine is of quality and can be trusted as it is part of disney, the use of the logos not only help the magazine but they advertise the company.