front cover practice analysis

The main picture is in the center of the page and is in a mid-shot. The image overlaps the head title because it is a well-known magazine and makes the image stand out. The colour theme is black and red to make it look formal and simple. The person is wearing a bright yellow dress to make the picture stand out because it is a bright colour and is a different colour to the colour theme. The target audience for this magazine is for teenagers around the age of 14-20. I think this because it has a teenager on the front cover and it looks very cheesy and the layout isn’t as formal as a high class magazine would be. The class for this magazine would be round about middle class because it looks affordable and everyday topics such as fashion most people would be interested. The gender aimed for this magazine would be mostly females because it is more ‘girly’ by talking about fashion, bra sizes, hair styles, kissing ways and questions about boys, which most boys wouldn’t be attracted to.

They have added small pictures on the bottom right hand corner to show what sort of clothes and fashion you will see inside the magazine, to attract people who like clothes and fashion. The clothes have sale signs next to the pictures to attract the readers more by seeing what’s on sale and to find a bargain which falls back into the middle class. There is also a “2 mags for price of 1” on the magazine at the top left corner this is again to do with a bargain magazine and the target audience like to find cheap items so it attracts them to buy more magazines. The target audience (teenagers) don’t have a lot of money as most people would because they go to school or educate themselves and most of them don’t have a full time job like adults would so the magazine has to add bargains to the front cover to attract them and make them buy it.

My music magazine will be like this magazine, I will be aiming it to be cheesy, smiley, bright colours, fashion, and teenage celebrities such as the person on the front cover so the target audience can relate to the magazine. Also the target audience can relate to the celebrity because it has a quote on the side of the magazine saying that “boys haven’t always been nice to me” this makes the readers want to buy the magazine to see what the boys done to her, so they put this on the front to make it look like an interesting magazine.

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