In our first couple of Media Studies lessons we started by looking at magazines. We had a brief introduction to the different technical terms and phrases we should be using to describe such things as the masthead and cover lines on a magazine.

We also made a trip to Tesco to do some research on magazines with a specific set of questions to answer.
The questions were:
How many different types of magazine are there?
How are they displayed? (What genre headinngs?)
What is the most popular type of magazine?
Whats the most expensive?
What do all magazines have in common?
What differences are there between the different magazines?

The types of magazine we found were Gaming, Photography, Sport, Motorsport, Mens Magazines, Fishing, Gossip, Properties, Celebrity, Film, Nature and Kids Magazines. These wer sorted into the following headings: Technology, Mens Interest, Motoring, Sport and Motoring, Sport, Homes and Leisure, and Women's Interest. The most popular of them all were the Gossip and Celebrity magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. The most expensive was 'Playstation' which cost £5.99. The majority of the magazines used the Left third to present the cover lines and used one main image to give a striking impression and to present clearly what the main story was in that issue of the magzine. Many of the womens magazines used a lot of cover lines unlike magazines such as 'Empire', a magazine about the film industry, which used barely any cover lines and so there was less to distract you from the main image.