Monday, 20 October 2014

Textual Analysis (mens fitness magazine)


This magazine is called Men's Fitness. This magazine uses colours such as red, white, black, yellow and grey. These colours suggest that the audience of the magazine would be men from the ages of 20-35 years old. This is as the colours are more varied and it differs from magazines such as Men's Health which uses white and black as its main colours, which could be because as it targets and audience a bit older than this one.
I think that this audience targets an audience of men the ages of 20-35 because it uses a coverline that sounds a bit boastful, which is maybe what the audience of the magazine is expected to be like, 'How to survive an elephant attack'.
The look of the magazine is fairly eye catching and it has a fair bit going on, in terms on the covers content. They have the main image, then they've got a lot of cover lines around the main image which all seem to have different topics. Also the cover lines aren't all the same size and colour, it seems to prioritise cover lines which would be more intriguing to younger audiences such as, GET  ABS LIKE THESE' and 'I grabbed a tusk in each hand and tried to cling on'.
Similarly to other magazines of this genre, the main image hasn't got any cover lines overlapping it and it overlaps the masthead. This is most probably because the magazine would want to make the audience focus more on the image than the cover lines, as they might think the contents of the magazine will help them build the look the main image is trying to convey.
The masthead of the magazine has things surrounding the top and the bottom of it, for example it has like a little strip underneath it with words/phrases, this gives suggestions to the audience what the magazine may contain.

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