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NorthEastLife

http://www.northeastlifemag.co.uk/magazines

NorthEastLife is a regional magazine that is about People, places, heritage, landscape and quality of life. Published by Archant Life, Britain's biggest publishers of magazines. Archant Life also publishes Yorkshire Life, Cheshire Life, Lancaster Life, Derbyshire Life all have been running for more than 60 years.
There layout is pretty simplistic nothing to bold they use the same font which makes it look simplistic. You can only access the magazines online if you have a account.
I read a article on their website as I was not able to access a copy, the article was called "Recession? What recession? Darlington is thriving" The article is very formal no use of colloquial language. The article also contains a quote from a member of the public a VOXPOP is used.

Vibe

Vibe magazine is a magazine about Sunderland, the main cover line is "a guid to what is happening in your city" which sounds like it is a magazine based on events going on in sunderland yearly. I also think it could be a magazine for tourists as it is really high lighting the theme of summer with the subhead being "summer is ready to take off" which also links with the air show that happens every year around sunderland and sea burn.  The cover is very simplistic the colors all go well together the main color scheme is white and red which goes with the red arrows in the back ground.
This magazine is obviously regional as it follows the same conventions as NorthEastLife as they both have no recognize able faces on their magazine. They mainly rely on the region its in to sell it, events going on, major themes in the area and tourist attractions. National magazines use celebrates to sell there magazine. Vibe magazine seems to be sponsored by a lot of companies, there website has "brought to you by: Bridges,gentoo,sunderland football company, sunderland Experience it here, sunderland college, sunderland live, sunderland university and sunbeam." This magazine is also given ut at sunderland college it is in the libuary.

Spark

Spark magazine was created by Sunderland university, there website says " Spark magazine is a magazine for sunderland, which is produced by students at the university of sunderland". The university has them on display and you can pick up a copy for free. It also says "Spark is distributed to 88 schools across the region, across university campus and around sunderland" they produce every 2 months. The 2 editors have contact details on the website, Emily Parker and Megan Fife.
This magazine has a fun cover with lots going on, bright colors, red, blue, yellow. the first word that stands out is PROMS. I imagine prom is the main theme in this issue as it has a girl standing in a party dress holding a ballon, she is holding up the corner of her dress slightly which shows a blue under coat this blue also matches with the big Blue proms word connoting that is the main feature.


National magazine 
Compared to National magazines to Mojo January 2016
We can see that MOJO has a lot more subtext on the cover showing the magazine has a lot more to offer and also is implying it. MOJO has a more interesting colour scheme than NorthEastLIfe the colours white and pink go well together standing out form the black back ground. MOJO also includes posters and sub images which are magazine conventions unlick NorthEastLife which includes neither. MOJO uses words like "ULTIMATE" and "NOW" which draws in in and all its text is in capital leters to be bold and draw the eye in were as NorthEastLife has neither again, they have gone for a more softer approach also linking in with the scenic back grounds of oceans and wildlife.

I can tell that Empire uses a lot more editing techniques than Vibe and Spark I can also see that it is edited a lot better looks more clean cut and more money has been spent on the cover. I can also tell that a lot more was done on photoshop than in the photography studio with a lot of airbrushing. The model is also key in telling if the magazine is national, they use a well known actor or actress on the cover as we can see they used Jennifer Lorance the lead in the hunger games on the cover, she is well known and will appeal to a wide audience instead of having the director on the cover which would only appeal to a small film fan audience. There is a lot of text used on the cover. They also have a sub image of another actor on the cover talking about the features on the inside.