Content Page Analyse

Content Page Analyse (Glamour Magazine)

The content page I am analysing is Glamour. Glamour is a fashion, beauty and gossip magazine which is aimed at women and teenage girls. The reason why the target audience is women and teenage girls is because women love fashion and beauty related things.

On this content page it contains a variety of different options which will intrigue the reader, as there is a drop down column offering the reader a chance to look at the favourite topics first and an inside scoop into the latest gossip etc with the monthly magazine. The house style layout is just one column with lots of information about what’s going to be in the magazine. The drop down column looks very neat on the content page. This suggests that this magazine is polite and neat. The text of the drop down column is small. This means that the text is not that important but you can still read it. Some of the font is bold and stands out from the other font type. With certain words being bold and others not suggest that those sentence/words are the most important in that sentence.

On the content they include page numbers so that readers know what page to turn to if they want to read a particular article. The page numbers are pink and green. The pink font is the same colour as the word style above the page numbers. The green font is the same colour as the tittle/mast head. In my option this is great that they have used the same colour has the tittle/mast head. It shows that the editor concentrates on the little detail to make the magazine better.

The colour scheme of this content page is;

·        Green

·        Pink

·        Orange

·        Black

The colour scheme is girly but in a mature way. The use of the green and orange used on the title/masthead stand out on the page. The green and orange suggest the sense that autumn is upon us. The text colour green symbolise trees, grass and nature and the orange symbolise the sun.  The colours contrast well with the plain white background. The plain white background gives the sense of maturity and professionalism. The pink used suggest the more girly side to this magazine. The pink symbolise the fashion and beauty side.  On this content page they use 4 colours which is more than enough for a content page. If there were more colours then it would be too much going on, on the page.

The main aspect about this content page is the extremely large image of Emma Watson which is placed in the centre-right hand side of the page. This is what the reader will first sight eye- contact with because of the size, the different of colour. The colour of Emma Watson’s picture is in black and white. This suggest that the photo is professionally done, it will be aimed at the most sophisticated fans of Emma Watson and that in her article she will be talking about her past this is why the photo looks old fashioned/black and white. The image is also in black and white because it will not attract Women to the photo, as they do not want to see Exposed women etc. This is the reason the editor has presented this in black and white, so that it displays a plain, grey, dull colour which will not draw women to the image at a high extent. The black and white colour of the image contrast well with the plain white background.  Another reason why Emma Watson is on the content page is because the main feature article is about Emma Watson, so fans of hers will want to read the magazine.  However there isn’t a lot of information about the image. This will make the readers wanting to read the article and finds out what the image/ article is about. The image also breaks up the drop down column/ text. With the image breaking up the text this suggest that this magazine contains more images than text and that the image is more important than the text.

Underneath the feature article photo there is a caption stating “What’s Emma’s style secret?” This is a rhetorical question. This will make the reader think about that question and instantly turn to that page and read that article.

Another option on this content page is that Glamour has an online website that you can visit if you don’t have the money to buy the magazine. This is helpful and unique because some people don’t have money to buy the magazine.