The Crack Regional magazine analysis

The Crack Regional magazine analysis

Front image


The Cracked magazine when looking at the front cover we get a very arty style to the magazine which can be seen with the main image on the front cover which is very bold. The masthead of the magazine goes well with the background as the fonts used blend in with the background not too much as it still stands out against it with the white colours used.

Under the masthead we have the sell line/slogan which state where in the region this magazine is aimed at ''northeast'' and then sections and themes that will be in the magazine such as ''music, fashion,comedy and theatre''

There is only one main article on this front cover ''Jonathan Yeo books on Tyne'' which gives you there quirky style that they use within the magazine which give the magazine its own identity. This suggest a that the target audience for this magazine will be people from the upper middle class who are interested in art and extra curriculum activities that people who have some disposable cash will be able to do.

2nd + 3rd Page

We have a advert on the second page for a drink which may be a local drink for the area that this magazine is based at.

On the 3rd page we have a very busy page with links to the online website at the top next to a smaller version of the front cover not with the article link but to show that its a painting.  They have a section of the page showing who worked on the magazine with there contact details which is a nice touch as if you wanted to talk to anyone who worked on the magazine you can.

With the actual contents there not a lot there with only really 5 articles but that may be because the magazine is mainly a listing magazine showing whats on and stuff rather then telling about whats on. So with the articles here there a lot more writing to try and sell the article to the reader. Rather then in other magazine they just put the article header.

Underneath of the contents we have the an add for readers to subscribe for a year so they can get the magazine derived to them rather then them having to buy the magazine from the shop. This shows how big the distribution must be for this magazine that they are promoting this.

They do have images which look like they are related to bands and more art related stuff which again shows there target audience they are trying to appeal to.

With the article here they use the four basic principles of contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. With the repetition side of things we can see the similar colours and fonts are used to keep the reader familiar to this and hopefully when they are out and about they will see something similar and that will act as a trigger object as they remember the product in question. 


4th Page

The articles shown in this magazine are very busy with a lot of wring, this however is sectioned off in neat areas by page furniture, images and boxes which work well on the page. also each article have there own sub section with header like ''tongue and groove'' which tell the reader the theme of whats on the page and that the articles on the page will be relevant to that theme.