Annotated Front Covers - Local Newspapers



These annotations clearly highlight the common features in magazines. For example, cold and large name plates appear on every style of magazine and are a lot bigger than all other words on the front cover. The designers and editors also seem to try and keep as little white space on the page as possible, using box articles and justified columns to leave only a small gutter between pictures and text. This is in order to try and include as much information as possible and to give a busy page atmosphere. Most of the images also have photo credits and captions however this is more common only on the bigger pictures rather than the smaller ones. The main image that appears on the front page also usually fills around 50% of the page (or round about). Something that differs greatly from newspaper to newspaper is the style and font of the Mastheads. For example the name plate can be seen to be a simple colour such as black and serif font in order to make the newspaper look traditional and older fashioned - perhaps if the audience is mostly elderly readers. However lots of more modern newspapers use bold fonts in sharp colours which appeal to younger audiences. newspapers change their style in accordance to their audience.