The document summarizes the design elements of a magazine cover, including the use of red text to suggest romance, a pale model contrasted with a dark background, formal typefaces for easy reading, low key lighting highlighting the model's face and creating contrast, following the rule of thirds to frame the model's face, and analyzing how these design choices would attract the target audience.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
AS Media Studies
Foundation Portfolio
Masthead
Main image
Model credit
Coverlines
Main cover line
Colour :The text is red which suggests
romance tension love etc
The pale well light model contrasts
with the dark mysterious background
Typefaces: The magazine uses formal clear fonts to
inform the audience easily
Photography Lighting: the low key lighting highlights
the face of the model, and creates a contrast/ binary
opposition between the foreground and background
(light and dark)
Design Principles Used?
Rule of thirds has been used and the intersections
lie on her eyes, and frame her face
House Style
Comment on how the design of the magazine cover attracts the target audience: