The document discusses the design elements of several magazine covers, including masthead placement and size, main images, color schemes, and cover lines. For the Billboard magazine cover featuring Beyoncé, the masthead is largest to promote the brand over the artist, the main image is of Beyoncé in a seductive pose to attract readers of all ages interested in music. For the Q magazine cover featuring Cheryl, the darker color scheme and edgier image are intended to attract new readers not familiar with Cheryl. The Top of the Pops cover featuring Ariana Grande places more emphasis on her main image than the masthead and uses a colorful but cluttered design aimed at early teens.

2. Masthead is in front of the maim image as
they want to promote the brand more than
the artist. It is spread all the way across the
page which stands out more, it also has
colours inside the title which also makes it
stand out more.
The Main Image is Beyoncé. For this
particular cover the readers would be
mostly female, although she has male fans
as well. The image is seductive by the way
she is looking out towards the reader. The
image is also captivating which will also
catch the readers attention. This is aimed
at mostly all aged ranges who are
interested in music, as Billboard covers all
different genres of music.
The Colour Scheme is
simple with 4 different
colours. The colours in the
title will catch the readers
attention due to them
being bright. The rest of
the colour scheme is white
but it stands out due to
the writing being bold.
There is also different
styles of writing to make it
different and more
appealing. For the
background there is no
colour its her hair and that
takes up all the
background.
The Main Cover Line on this cover is
just the artists name, this is because she
is well known around the world and
people can recognise her by her name.
These are Cover Lines which
may not be about Beyoncé but
about other artists or stories
which people might find
interesting.

3. The Masthead is in front of the main
image, this shows how they want to
promote the magazine more than the
artist. Its in the top left corner where
most magazine mastheads are.
The Main Image is different to Cheryl’s look
as its more dark with all the dark colours on
the magazine. Even though the magazine is
popular for all music fans, this is trying to get
readers who don’t know or like Cheryl to buy
it as it’s promoting more of a edgy and rock
version of her. Its quite seductive as she’s
biting a ring, this could draw more attention.
The Main Cover Line is basically about
Cheryl and how she’s the main headline in
the magazine. They have used the word
rock to show how it’s a different type of
magazine than what she’s used to being
on.
These are Cover Lines that might
appeal to people who aren't into
Cheryl. These cover lines may be
about different genres of music or
different artists which appeal to
other readers more. Q magazine
would put these down the side so
that their readers still have a
variety of things to read about.
This Skyline is there to persuade
people to buy the magazine as it’s
saying it’s the best one in the UK.
The Colour Scheme is dark and bold as it
stands out with the red, black and white. It
doesn’t have many colours which makes it
look more professional.

4. The Main Image is bigger than
Masthead, so this is promoting Ariana
Grande more. The picture is sweet and
innocent and this magazine is aimed at
early teens .
The Masthead is at the top left corner
and is smaller than the image. Its
colourful so it catches attention.
The Cover Lines are for
people who want to read
different stories. However
the layout on this is jumbled
and messy.
There's lots of pictures all over the
magazine which makes it hard to look
for different things, as the cover lines
are on different parts of the magazine
and not together.
The colour scheme has a lot of
different colours which is
appropriate for early teens.

5. Overall Summary
• Overall I prefer Billboard and Q Magazine as it doesn’t have too many colours
and its not as jumbled as Top of the pops. I like how the Billboard Magazine is
set out as its got little amounts of colour and has got text set out nicely instead of
all over the place.
• The Top of the pops magazine has too much going on as its for early teenagers,
however I am going to do a magazine for late teenagers.