Analyzing

House
Styles
Because Elle is a well
known magazine, they Lady Gaga, shown on
can hide some of the the feature article
logo behind the photo, comes across as
feature article photo, being very beautiful and
also found on natural.
magazines such as
Mojo and Rolling The women on the
Stone. front cover, Lady
Gaga, makes the
magazine look more
Headlines, anchorages, attractive.
flashes and headers are
all placed down the left
or right side of the Large, bold headers,
magazine, occasionally a to make it eye
header will be places catching for the
straight across the readers, with the
magazine. information, also
known as cover line,
The colour scheme is below.
the same for all of the
text, logo and photo.
Part of the logo can
be covered up
because of it being
The feature article
such a well known
photo, showing Lily
magazine, people
Allen, makes the
will still recognise
magazine look more
some of the logo.
attractive to the
Headlines, reader.
anchorages, flashes
and headers are all
placed down the left
or right side of the
magazine, because,
in a shop, either of
the two sides will be The same colour
seen. scheme, purple,
black and white,
The colour tone shown on the front
changes from the top cover, will be used
to the bottom of the throughout the
cover, from white to magazine.
purple, to contrast
the colour of her
dress.
 Conclusion
• Looking at both Magazine cover and
contents page, I have decided to use a Colour scheme
warm, light green, black and light grey
colour scheme throughout my magazine.
• I have decided to put headers, kickers and
anchorages down the right side of my
magazine cover, with my headline on the
left.
• My masthead will be partly faded, where
my models head is, but will still be readable.
 The date of the issue
This contents page will is also shown on the
be from an Elle magazine contents page,
with a very basic red, relating to how
white and black colour succesful the
scheme, as you can see, magazine is,
the red stands out in sometimes replaced
comparison to the white with an issue number.
and black to draw the
readers attention to
those specific sections,
whereas the small black
writing goes into detail
and explains the This is a very simple
individual content. but attractive contents
page, as it is readable
and each section is
separated by bold page
numbers and bright
red headers.
 Conclusion
• I have decided to use another photo of my
model on my contents page, using a similar
colour scheme, but with a simple but effective
layout, which is very easy to read and to
follow but stands out and makes the reader
want to read on.