Analysis of Articles-RWD Magazine

Analysis of “Double Trouble” article

This is a double spread article on featured artists T2. As part of the Britannia artists theme of that week’s issue of RWD, T2 are one of the celebrated British bands.
Just as most of the articles in RWD magazines the article features little colour perhaps to reduce printing costs.
The colours in the “Double Trouble” logo match the colours of the clothes worn by the band members and these are the only few colours in the entire article. There is not a lot of colour distracting the reader from the text.
The image of the band members takes up most of the double page so the reader familiarises themselves with the two group members. The members are dressed fashionably with the current in-look of skinny jeans and heels which would to appeal to a young audience and they are more likely to read the article as the girls are dressed fashionably.
There are a lot of quotes from the two artists themselves. The quotes are unedited with everyday language such as “veg” and “arses” that the girls use themselves. This makes the article personal to the artists and gives the reader a true unedited insight to their thoughts and feelings.
Like most RWD articles the language in this article is informal appealing to a young target audience.
The article features detail on the date of T2’s single release promoting sales of the CD. The web address for then bands MySpace music page is also available promoting web fans. The association with MySpace music further emphasises the target audience is teenagers as they are the main users of MySpace.
At the bottom of the article there are two brief articles which are completely unrelated to the T2 artist feature. This distracts from the main article itself but creates a variety of text for the reader to read on the same page. It may even draw the reader to reading the “double trouble” article after they have finished reading the other sub articles.