Assignment 1: Print - Analytical task guidance

Assignment 1: Print

Analytical task: Analyse the cover pages of two popular magazines. How do the covers appeal to their audiences?

Pages 1&2
Write a short paragraph introducing the popular magazine you are analysing and outlining its target audience (if you can find the target audience by researching online this is even better).

You then need to annotate the magazine cover, picking four or five key aspects that target that specific audience (use the 12 key conventions of magazine covers to help you). Remember to use media language throughout and make sure you are ANALYSING rather than just describing. 

Page 3
Your third page should analyse your own magazine cover. First, write a paragraph explaining how your research, planning and sketching helped you produce the final mock-up on Photoshop. Next, explain your target audience in detail (use your notes from the audience demographics lesson to help you).

Then, annotate your magazine, picking four or five key aspects that target your specific audience.

Remember:

D = Denotation = What you can see
C = Connotation = What it means
A = Analysis = WHY it is produced in that way and the EFFECT on the reader/audience