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1. Codes:
The different variations of purple suggest to me this is a music
and fashion based magazine, it comes across very beauty
centred but also centred around the ideal image of a pop
artist. The colour scheme of this magazine highlights the ideal
pop theme, it illustrates quite young colours which would
connect exclusively with teenagers and young adults. The
purple hair is trying to project feminine beauty with unusual
attention from a different type of target audience, as the
music artist is represented through a unique hairstyle as well
as the colour we are captured by the extreme bow made of
hair this draws our entire attention towards her facial area
focusing on the main model which the magazine has designed
to capture the target audiences attention straight away. The
darkness of the outfit which she is wearing compared to the
background contrasts deeply on how she is portrayed
alongside the vividness of the use of purple.
Conventions:
The famous artist on the front cover idealises
the magazine to be about her and her fame or
her upcoming events or albums within the
music industry, they have used a plain
background behind her to make her seem more
lonesome on the front cover extending her
importance. The pose which the artist is taking
suggests a seduction sort of attitude, almost as
if she is projecting her behaviour to be quite
sexualised, this is usually a convention of
magazines which show a female on the front
cover as this is usually the main convention of
using female models to project a high
sexualised image within the industry and to
sexualise their figure as this is what seen as
“beauty” as the idea of showing more skin
would attract more people to read the
magazine, and promote the magazine to the
extent of the target audience enlarging in more
than one ideal demographic.

2. Codes:
Pink is usually a code for feminine or Romance, usually
associated with love. In this case it would be for something
feminine as the main image is female and will feature in the
magazine, ideally about her music or her fashion. This image is
quite a natural design with the sculptured flowers surrounding
her figure, the flowers used are ultimately similar to the
background colour and this helps justify the softness of the
artist, again the fonts used further the idea of this entire
magazine being quite delicate and feminine besides the
limited colours of pastel pink and honey yellow, the font is
quite delicate and angelic with the use of the sans serif it
comes across as quite formal but also quite pretty in the sense
that it is directed to females who distinctively know Katy
Perry.
Conventions:
The main image is over the masthead but we
can still recognise the name of the magazine
as it is quite important and you can tell what
company it is as it is a distinctive title. The
artists name is bold and big within the margin
of the magazine, highlighting an important
amount of the magazine is about her. The
shadow behind her darkens the outline of her
figure, encapsulating the beauty of her more
ladylike and her posture as quite desirable to
both audiences of the female demographic
and the male demographic. I think mainly
Americans and British audiences would be
interested in Katy Perry and her musical
talents as she is quite popular within these
regional areas. As Katy Perry is still quite
young she would be idealised by the youth
and therefore they would be more likely to
buy the magazine and promote it.

3. Codes:
The different variations of light neutral colours within this
imagery suggest a light nature to the music and fashion
within this magazine, almost highlighting her as very angelic
and her beauty as the ideal femininity you would see within
a young lady. The first thing that attracts the target
audience is the attention surrounding her eyes, this direct
eye contact makes a intimate relationship with the
audience, however it also has an intimidating atmosphere
as her eyes are so focused on that they almost appear the
most darkened feature on the magazine, highlighting the
idea that beauty is held within the eyes. The contrast of her
facial features being quite dark and her hair so light
introduces us to the idea that she face is the main
distribution that would appeal to the target audience.
Conventions:
The use of this girl on the magazine, suppresses
the idea that she’s not only on there for her
beauty but her natural angelic look. The added
black tones onto the magazine keep the colour
scheme very faint with a clash of tone, the black
and the neutral yellow creates a personality for
the magazine. Even by looking at the magazine
cover we are introduced to the house style of
the magazine which would be surrounded
around the colour scheme of beige, black and
white. Developing further into this sense of
melodramatic serenity, almost as if the articles
within the magazine are so stimulated by
societies natural discoveries and that there
would be no criticisms within the articles at all,
but this can only be conveyed through the
colours as they are quite hidden and limited.
The name of the magazine “Wonderland”
suppresses the ultimate idea of reality mixed
with fantasy appealing to both younger and
older generations wanting to feel youth again.