Sunday, 31 January 2010

Analysis of the jouralitic style and structure of an artical.

These are some examples of recent MixMag Articals:

These articals are around 75% photos. This allows people to follow it without reading every word, pictures also attract attention to the article aswell as moving them along. In the article above 7 out of ten photos of people in clubs having fun which is what the article is about and people may read the article to see where the people where in these photos because they want to experience what they're missing.
Articles are set out in coloums so we can fit more on one page and it is easier to read and split up into sections, as we see in the article top right. Different parts of the article are grouped in colours and are under subheadings. This makes it more visually interesting, adding to this is the way the writing curves around images (in this cause big nimber bubbles). Also important bits such as the first letter of the article, interesting quotes, subtitles and titles are in interesting fonts and are different sizes to the usual house style too catch are eye. The title is in a funky fun font big and a bright red colour too fit with its target audience of fun loving young adults.
Although you cannot read the articles with these images I found becuase the text is too small I weny on the online magazine to read the articles on there. I found that they used a laid back direct address attitude towards the reader, I think this is to engage the reader and they use a laid back approch to make the reader feel more intouch with the article because its not all formal, it's how we speak usually.

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