Research On Magazines

The Grazia Magazine was first launched in Italy, it is produced in 24

countries has over 17m reader and has published over 600+ issues.
The magazine covers topics in fashion, beauty, main news events and
issues, and mostly covers topics for women to enjoy and get
inspiration from. These new covers from the magazine are all based
on the current epidemic happening, The magazine has photographed
doctors and nurses that are now in the “front line” fighting the corona
virus. The magazine has shown women who are serving and helping
their countries in order to stop the virus and help the patients that are
battling this virus. The photographs taken show the women to be brave
and powerful for taking such a big responsibility, this shows a positive
stereotype of women as they are shown to be as powerful and strong
as men through how they are standing, how the camera angle is taken
a bit low making them appear bigger. The covers also show women
from different backgrounds fighting for the NHS to help out with the
virus showing a social and cultural side of the magazine and how they
view everyone equality and don’t just portray the stereotypical doctor
or nurse.
The Grazia magazines latest front cover shows the brave NHS nurses and doctors
working against the Corona Virus. The central image used is a photo of a NHS doctor
that are “frontline” with the battle against the virus. the doctor is a women which is
very common in the Grazia magazine as it shows a lot of women and how powerful they
are as their main audience is women. The feature article shows an insight of how the
doctors and nurses feel about the situation and how they are putting themselves in
“danger” this language informs the magazines audience to then follow the rules we
were given in order to help out and stop the spread of the virus in the way that we can
which is staying indoors. The other cover lines show different ways celebrities are
dealing with staying in home which provides the audience a way to stay on top with
celebrity news whilst still get a link onto the main headlining issues and affairs
happening. The colour palette remains very limited and is under the dark and greyish
tones that almost show the dark and miserable times we are currently in dur to the
virus. The compositions and layout of the magazine is very basic and minimalistic which
is connivant as the layout is not confusing and the audience can quickly find the article
they want to read and only the most important articles are shown that will most
defiantly attract their attention. Overall the magazine front cover is very good as it
covers everything that suits their audience from lifestyle to celebrity gossip however it
still shows the main affairs as their central image.
The online website for the Grazia Magazine provides a verity of news, health
guides, celebrity news, fashion hints, and main news that are headlining. The
magazine offers links to social media providing their subscribers a further
interaction with the magazine in order to keep up with the best news, posts and
more. The website provides many articles such as highlighting latest issues
such as corona and how women are helping out their countries. The articles
provide videos, photographs and more in order to give their audience a closer
and different perspective about the certain article.
 Dennis is a publishing platform that helps
magazines grow and get subscribers.
Dennis is one of the biggest media
companies in the UK. As the 6th largest
consumer magazine publisher, Dennis has
transformed its business from its
traditional print publishing roots to a true
multi-platform, award-winning media
company, with a group turnover of over
£130m.dennis brans operates many
magazines that cover current affairs, life
style, technology and automotive news.

The Dennis website provides articles about their company and what
they do, gives social media platforms for their audience to get
further interaction from and has a whole page for their subscription
page where they show a list of magazines they supports and give
valid information about each one before the audience decided to
subscribe to them.
The Week is a magazine is a subscription magazine that covers
“only the best news, current affairs and political articles from
the UK” the magazine gives balanced views and opinions to their
audience. The magazine gives you a wide range of other
entertainment other than news as the provide art exhibitions,
books, movies, sports and other articles for their audience. The
magazine gives information and news from all around the world
and covers many topics that re talked about in normal
magazines providing their audience with a wider range of
education and news. The weeks websites gives a wide range of
information persuading the consumers on subscribing to their
magazine, they highlight the most important factors and share a
wide range of things that the consumer will be given after the
subscription.
This particular magazine cover is from The Week magazine, the front
cover shows the main headlining story of “our heroes” presenting the
brave doctors and nurses fighting and helping our countries with the
battle against the Corona Virus. The central image shows a positive
outlook on the doctors and nurses as they are holding their thumbs up
to almost show that we will win the fight against this virus. we can see
that the featured article will be about our brave doctors and nurses
and how the public are supporting and thanking them for their work.
The language use is very easy to understand showing that the
magazine is based for all age and social groups. The magazine
includes many cover lines that attract each age group and highlights
the key events for that particular audience. The compositions and
layout of the magazine is very bold and mix together, there is a lot of
information provided in the front page for the audience to be
attracted and get a taster of the main articles inside of the magazine.