media studies

1. My research on fashion
magazines

2. Magazine front cover
• Some magazines are very bright, the colours used are very
sharp and some covers are very dull, and there is a reason for
the selection of colors. There are different layouts to a fashion
magazine front cover, for eg winter , fall, jewellery etc. but all
these are included in the genre ‘fashion’.

3. For example: • This magazine’s front cover is very
bright. The text ‘sunshine’ is in
yellow color and highlights the
fact that it is a summer magazine.
The target audience for this mag
is girls from 17 to 25 years.
• The main text is in pink color
which enhances the girly effect
and is written in in center for
attention.

4. Winteredition
• The colors used are not very lively or
bright.
• As her dress is in black color so the
background is white.
• Her jacket and hair were light so to
maintain the color balance they have
changed the color of their logo to
red.
• In this layout of front cover small
summeries of contents-written.
• Red color used so that logo-not
awkward.

5. This is another example of a fashion
magazine cover layout.
• The summaries of contents are written
on this front cover however the main
words are written in capital and bold
letters.

6. • In this cover of harpers bazaar
magazine no summaries are written
which differentiates it from other
covers.
• Only the name of main article in
magazine is written in capital letters ,
to attract audience.

7. Contents:
• There are many different types of layouts to a content page.
• Every fashion magazine has there own style.
• It also depends on the genre if it’s a gossip girl magazine then
they usually attach pictures with the content list to make it
look more girly.

8. Example:
• In this layout they have written
the main article’s page number
in bold numbers.
• Pictures are also used to
enhance there effect otherwise
text will look really simple.
• The contents other then main
ones are written in a simple list.

9. • The content list is
simple in this
example.
• The main article in
this magazine is the
interview of beyonce
so her picture is
attached with the
page number.

10. This content page is very
simple. No pictures are
used ,only page
numbers are written in
bold.

11. • The headings are
written in red bold
letters. And the page
number size is also
bigger then the font
size.
• A picture is included
to keep interest of
people.
• The word “passion” is
also written in big
letters to highlight it.

12. I have explained 4 types of magazine covers and 4 types
of content page layouts. All of these examples were
under the genre “fashion” but every layout was different
from other.