Wednesday 8 December 2010

Features Article Analysis: High Profile and FFH

I also annotated some features articles from school magazines 'High profile' and 'FFH' to get a better idea of colour schemes and layout (please see annotations)...

High Profile Magazine

Here I noticed how the first features article fades into black at the top which is an effective way of making the white text show up. This is also done for the front cover of this magazine. A key quote in the article was also picked out and put into the centre of the page as large and bold text - this is to lock the interest of the reader.

The second features article is from the same magazine, but the layout is very much different. The green accent follows on from the green on the front cover (see Front Cover Analysis 1: High Profile), this carries on a theme and relates to the school colours.

Both articles have a 'footer', one of which consists of the article title, name of school and date, and the other which consists of the school's website address - both of these are placed under a single, thin line.

FFH

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The first article follows the colour scheme of the front covers for FFH, much like the article above. The page, like the articles above, contains contact information. This seems like a convention of school magazines. This would make sense being as one of a school's aim should be to offer easy means of communication between the school, parents and pupils. 

The bottom article consists of five images, one of which is used for the front cover. Had I been able to produce a features article, I would take this into account.