Magazine analysis Billboard
• Masthead • The mast head is written in a black font, its bold and written in a times style font with serifs, it looks like it is underlined with a orange dot line, but the line also contains information • The mast head is written as it is because it connotes an informative magazine, it is what we would expect from a newspaper font. • The date lines is on there so we know what issue it is in case you collect it, or want to know what the date is in a shop. • The font would defiantly grab your attention in the shops as it is big and bold. • There is a selling line at the top which is on the left thus getting the magazines ideology across straight away.
Image • The image is small and is Nigel Harman and Simon Cowell posing for a photo, in the background there is The logo for the I cant sing musical, there is a caption underneath saying “Simon Cowell” “I do feel with theatre there are a few more knives being sharpened for me” • The image connotes irony and humour because there is in I cant sing Nigel Harman playing Simon Cowell standing next to the real Simon Cowell. • It also connotes the genre of the magazine because the photo was taken on a premier of a musical suggesting that this magazine is going to be about musicals, this again backed up by the caption about theatre • It also connotes the more gossipy genre of the magazine and how it is focusing on Simons history with theatre and Nigel's life in the theatre • It also connotes another genre of magazine and how it is informative about musicals and how it is bringing attention to there target audience that there is a musical for them to go ahead and see.
Main article, and other articles The head article is “Theatre tax relief “to create jobs and investments” • This Article connotes that the magazine is going to be more about the life inside the theatre and information for other actors trying to make a life in the theatre. • The whole magazine is set out more like a newspaper or article this suggests that it likes to be more informative and more serious than most magazines this is also reflected by the information in the article •