Magazine Analysis

Another aspect of my research is to do a detailed analysis of a magazine that is of the same genre as the one I am planning to produce. As I am not producing an entire magazine I have not analysed the whole magazine; just the cover page, the conents pages and the feature article.

The key features that I must take into consideraton are:
The layout, i.e. how many coloumns there are, where are the titles and images positioned etc.
The colour scheme
The house style
The camera angles
The punctuation i.e. exclamation marks
The connotations associated with different features.

The magazine I have chosen to analyse is the November '08 issue of Vibe magazine, an American publcation of a similar genre to the magazine I am planning to produce. This particular issue is very political and this may therefore effect the house style that the magazine usually has.