Thursday 27 January 2011

Analysis a Male lifestyle Magazine Contents Page:FHM






The Masthead:


The Masthead for the contents is simlar to the one on the front cover this could be because the magazine does not want the audience to get confused. Its in bold black colour to make it seem simple. The masthead is cented in the top middel of the page and is the biggest font on the page. The masthead is placed sepratly to avoid the husle and bustle of the images scattered around the page.




Images:


The images chosen are mainly of male gender to reflect the mode and target audience for the magazine. For it to be more eye catching to the male audience there has to be reliving images of the oppiste sex (female). As you can see the central donimate image of a women, that the male audience would find attrective. Where as on the first page the audience see smaller pictures of male models. Also the images are different sizes depending in what is going to be the most popular pages in the issue.




Regular Section:


In the second page the audience see various sections for example Regulars which are articals or reviews that come up time and time again in the magazine. Then just below is the access section which is the exclusive pages for the magazine and make it different form other male orantated magazines. Fitler section is loctaed below and this is the famous ideals that the audience follow either in style, carrer or hobbie. Upgrade is at the bottom of the page and this section is the lifestyle of the target audience from shopping to cars this is probably the most popular part of the magazine.




Easy Infomation:


With this contents page the pictures are located at the sides of the page and arrows pointing to the page and underneath the number is a short sectence explaning what the page is talking about.




Colour:


The colours used are simple (red, white and black) this could be because the colours are male donimate meaning power and streath an other qualities.

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