Textual analysis of Magazine covers

The magazines which im going to compare are "Roling stone ,Rugby World and Heat ". Rugby world is speaking about the events in Rugby and calss out th rugby players of all ages and roling stone is a music magazine . Firstly rugby world, is a magazine aimed at people who like reading about the current affairs in the world of rugby . Boys aged 16-19 who mainly play of like rugby enjoy reading this magazine as rugy is a high impact sport which most boys love . The language of the magazine is straight to the point,it covers the rugby world cup a main event in the rugby calendar. Thre is the actuall rugby world cup covering nearly the whole page and a background of outer space as if it was floating in space waiting for some one to claim it.

The second magazine is the rolling stone magazine this a music magazine aimed mainly at 16-19 year old and those interested in music. The main picrure and article in the magazine is of jack johnson and it shows him buried up to his neck in sand. the language used on the front cover is more laid back and is really explaining what the article is about and has other stories surrounding the main picture. the magazine also shows two headlines form the senators fight ing for presidency with major point which could pull the reader into looking at the articles.

The third magazine is heat which is aimed mainly at girls and provides most of the gossip and whats happening in the world of celebrities. the magazine shows a picture oif a man called vernon laughing and saying how he put the ou back into H2O.

the language in the magazine is straight to the point and is written as if someone was saying it, the magizne is also quite informal because it is unleashing the stories of the celebrities.

Cover Analysis

This is the front cover of a magazine for secondary school teachers.
denotation - The image shows a secondary school boy raising his hand, as if he is asking a question. There are blocks of text around the boy and also at the top of the page in different colours.
connotation- The boy in the school uniform raising his hand suggest that a question has been raised that will be answered within the magazine article such as do boys and girls learn differently. This technique draws in the audience as they want to know the answer of the question. The title at the top of the page is designed well because it instantly lets the target audience know that is for secondary school teachers.


Language-the language used in the magazine page is kind of bold letters to attract readers. Thelanguage used in the subtitles is informal and asks the question do boys and girls learn differently, this question could create a big talking point.

Ideology- the text in the front is clear and easy to understand so there will be no crossed messages when people read it.
The front cover also respects peoples views and equalities such as


Institution- the production of this magazine is controlled by a company called children,schools and families.



Audiences-The audience for this magazine is exclusivly for secondary school teachers, this is shown by the title Secondary Teachers.

Representation- the student on the front cover of the magazine represrents that it is a school based magazine. this is obvious because he is wearing a school uniform and is raising his hand as if he was trying to awnser a question.

As media studies Rob Hodges

As this is the beggining of the portfolio preliminary task. we looked at how the key media concepts could be applied to produce a college magazine. we used the acronym LIIAR, language,institution,ideology,Audience and representation.

Language - The print layout (involving text). Formal or informal language, font, text colour, logo creation, images and proportion.

Institution - We control the production process. We can choose the content inside the magazine (layouts logos etc) The Storys come from Wyke!

Ideology - Respect, equal treatment, opportunity and great belief in education.

Audience - The magazine Will be aimed at all wyke students, age group 16 - 19. 64 percent of which are female

representation - Storys contributed by the students will be represented in the magazine. Type face and choice of photo also play an important part