The magazine cover uses a simple yet professional design that appeals to its target audience of young adults. High key lighting is used on the main image to make the artist easily recognizable. The bold masthead stretches across the top to clearly display the magazine name. Cover lines down the left side briefly summarize additional articles to entice readers. The overall house style with plain colors and formal typefaces creates a serious yet appealing tone.

1. Photography Lighting
Salford City College Ryan Denner High key lighting is used to make her face stand out
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image is blurred which makes her face stand out and,
makes it look professional. It appeals to the target
Masthead---------------------------------------------------- audience as it is a high quality image suggesting the
The masthead is bold and, in front of the main image so, it stands standard of the magazine. She is shown to look
out suggesting it is one of the key features to the magazines sad/upset suggesting what the article will be about.
success. It follows the house style and, is plain colours suggesting
the magazine is serious while also suggesting, the simplicity of the Main image
music produced by the artist featured on the cover. It demonstrates The main image shows a close up of the artists face
to the audience that the magazine is serious and, not a fun comical and, is easily recognisable from it showing that they
magazine. The black outline round the masthead makes it stand out are a big star who will help sell the magazine. It uses
from the background and, gives it a 3D effect adding to the overall direct address as she is looking directly at the
effectiveness of the masthead. The font used for it looks formal audience almost pleading with the audience to buy
suggesting the type of article that will be inside. It covers the whole the magazine to find out about her. It is in the
width of the page so; it is easily visible from all angles and, is easy to background to the rest of the text so; it’s easy to see
see the name of the magazine. the other details on the magazine cover. The colours
used fit in with the house style adding to the overall
Colour professional look of the magazine. It appeals to the
The main colours used are quite dull and, plain. This suggests that audience as they, can easily see what the main article
the articles inside may feature a lot of text and, be factual therefore is about and, see that it is presented in a professional
appealing to the older target audience. Yellow is used to help way.
brighten up the front cover allowing it to stand out easier on the
shelf encouraging the audience to pick it up. White is used to Typefaces
suggest the simplicity and, purity of the singer featured while black The font used looks very formal and, serious
is used to suggest the interview may be about a bad time in her life. suggesting the type of articles featured inside. The
font is bold and easy to read so; people are able to
Model credit easily see the information about the magazine. It is in
The model credit is quite large and, easily visible showing that they contrasting colours to the main image so, it stands
are going to help sell the magazine to the audience. However, it out. It appeals to the audience as it looks professional
isn’t as large as the masthead suggesting that will be a bigger selling and, fits into the house style.
point for the magazine that the star featured. The text used is bold
so, stands out and, fits in with the house style. It will appeal to the House Style
audience as its plain and, simple much like the rest of the front The house style looks very professional and, formal
cover. appealing to the target audience. The main colour
scheme uses quite dull/plain colours making it look
Coverlines more forma and, serious. Yellow and, white text is
The coverlines are all down one side of Main cover line Guttenberg Design Principle used to brighten up the magazine while also looking
the page and, are confined to a certain The main cover line sums up what The main masthead and, some of the cover professional and, fitting in with the rest of the house
space so; they don’t obstruct the main the main article will be about lines are included within the primary optimal style. The style is a simple design which adds to the
image suggesting that the main image is inside. It suggests that the article area as these will be the first items people see overall impact of the magazine cover.
the most important part for the will be talking about the success of so, people instantly know what the magazine is
audience. They are used to sum up the the cover star. The main cover line and, some of the main articles. The logo Target Audience
other articles inside so, the audience is in yellow demonstrating that the stretches over to the weak fallow area drawing The target audience for the magazine will be mainly young adults as they are
know what else will be featured and, article will be about the happy, attention to some of these areas that people most likely to be fans of the artists featured and, the older generation may not be
encourage the audience to buy it even if positive side to her life. It would wouldn’t normally notice. The main image interested in them. And, the magazine may be too serious for teenagers so they
they aren’t a fan of the cover star. They attract the audience as it only hints stretches across the page into the terminal
will appeal to the target audience as would not won’t to read it. It would appeal to both genders as both would be
at what the article is about area, drawing attention to the image as a
they look professional suggesting the fans of the musicians featured. The target audience would buy the magazine to
encouraging the audience to buy it whole. The barcode is placed within a weak
type of articles inside. to find out more. fallow area as it isn’t important for the reader. find out all the information about the artists lives while being entertained.