Magazine Analysis

To add to my analysis in more depth, within Empire there is a very clear sense of house-style.

Empire's house style features a black, grey, red, white and gold colour scheme. I believe this is as, in a sense, we associate these colours with cinema and film. A small font size is used to accommodate a large amount of text, common to Empire. Headings and subheadings are in a sans-serif font however all main text featured is published in a serif font. Within the text itself Empire writes in an unusual, yet interesting, combination of both high and low register writing.

The contents page features large images to the left of the page, highlighting the the main articles within the magazine. As well as this, very large stylistic page numbers are embedded within the images, of which quite obviously inform the reader where specific features are located. A small preview of the page is also included for larger articles. On the right however, below the magazines issue number/name, a more conventional contents list is featured. This of which is always split into three sections , 'Features', 'Reviews' and 'Regulars', under the appropriate sections the articles (or groups of articles) are listed. For each article yet another stylistic page number is used, maintaining the house style, as well as a short summary/description and obviously their title.

Preliminary Task - Magazine

Front Cover

Contents Page