Mix mag

This is the front cover of a well known music magazine called Mixmag. The first thing you notice when looking at the front cover is the main artwork, which is a face on edited photograph of a young fashionable man in his mid 20s/30s, he seems to be staring at you ( the reader ) this attracts the eye of the target audience. The colours used around the main image and the other colours with the font gives the reader the impression that the type of genre this magazine is, is house music. The second thing that stands out rather a lot is the title also known as the masthead, it has been placed on a grey background and the masthead is white making it stand out.
The main article also known as the lead article in the magazine is ‘The Amsterdam Dance Event’ we know this because there is a big bold yellow banner going through the main image, this makes it stand out and makes it eye catching. This Also may persuade people who take interest in dance events buy this issue specially. As well as the main article there are cover articles around the main image too that are spread out within the space around the artwork, these are also made rather bold but are shown in a smaller font size than the main article this tells the reader what other stories can be found inside the magazine.

Once again the main feature that stands out on this page is the artwork. The artwork located on the contents page is very different to the artwork on the front page, the image on the contents page looks like a pool party which gives the reader the impression that the main focus of this months issue is Parties. If we examine the image more you can see the image is mostly filled with young attractive females. As you can also see once again the magazine title or mast head as referred to earlier is also displayed at the top left of the page.
Now let’s talk about the actual layout of the contents page. As you can see the image is located on the right which attracts the human eye and the text is mainly located on the right and below the image. However the writers of this magazine have used white on black which is a key feature of media and once again makes the white text stand out on the black background. Also although the colour scheme is very different to the front page, the contents page still uses a lot of yellow which is featured on the front cover.


DPS

This is a double page spread also known as DPS, this is one of the very few that are in this magazine. First off we can see the colour scheme relates to the contents page, it’s dark with bright colours such as yellow dipped around each article to once again attract the eye. On this page there is 3 articles each spread out within the dps this makes it easy to identify where each article begins. Once again the artwork stands out, medium close ups of young people clubbing which relates to the article.