Homework- Analysing the Ruislip Eye magazine cover

We were set homework to analyze the cover of the Ruislip Eye magazine and this is what I done.

Analysing a magazine

Today, we looked at the covers of a magazine. I looked at a cover of Heat and had to annotate the features used on the cover. I looked at the colours used, the sizes of the pictures/fonts and the varieties of them. We also had to think about why they would be used and why this is important to a magazine. I think that this was very beneficial because I know that every time I look at a magazine now, I will evaluate it more and give more thought into why certain colours, fonts and quotes are used.

How colours on magazines effect their popularity

As you are aware, there are many very popular and money making magazines. There is a reason for this. If you were to go into a shop and see many magazines on the shelf, how would you choose a magazine? It has been proven that colours such as yellow and pink catch the readers attention the most. Magazines such as 'Closer' and 'Heat' (pictures below) use a lot of these colours to grab the readers attention and make them stand out from all the competitive magazines.

I never really gave any thought into how colours can make such an effect before I started this course, but now I realise the importance of how a magazine would be effected if they used dull colours that didn't catch the buyers attention.