The document analyzes and compares several magazine covers and movie trailers. It examines elements like colors, images, layout, and tone to infer each item's intended target audience. Total Film magazine aims for a wide audience with its use of neutral fonts and colors. Empire magazine seems aimed at older males. Vogue magazine targets women with its feminine colors, empty space, and beautiful model. The movie trailers employ different music, lighting, locations, and pacing to suggest if they are targeting teenagers, adults, males, females, or genres like horror, action, or romance.

1. Summer task.
Lucy Fitzsimmons.

2. Big bold Total Film Magazine. Main image, Johnny
heading to catch Depp, dressed in
the target kooky unusual
audience eyes. clothing to
White font, represent his
contrast to the personality. He is
bright the main feature.
background
colours. The
font isn’t either Green is the
feminine nor background
masculine so it colour, and this
would attract a colour would
wider audience. attract men and
women, which the
magazine is aimed
Blank space, the front at. It is a bright
cover is not over bold colour which
crowded and shows that would stand out
The star shapes are a purple
the magazine is good from other
colour which matches with his
quality and classy. It magazines and
gloves so the colour scheme
leaves more emphasis looks individual
all co-ordinates which works
on the main stories and and different.
well and is a nice touch to the
the main image.
magazine.

3. The title is very bold
and quite masculine. It Empire magazine. The background
would catch your image is a main
eye, especially because character from a
of the green outlining popular film, he is
because it contrasts quite scary looking
against the darker so the target
colours. The darker audience would
colours makes it be an older male.
masculine, as women He is looking
would usually be straight to the
attracted to camera which is
bright, pastel colours. captivating to the
customer and to
Blank spaces, the front catches their
cover isn’t over crowded attention and it
which makes it look stands out from
more classy and other magazines.
expensive. Compared to
a magazine like ‘Hello’
for example, the front Everything on the magazine co-ordinates well. Green and black
cover has no blank space seem to be the colour scheme and it works well for this type of
and it is very busy and magazine. The title has a green outline/glow around it and
confusing, ‘Hello’ is also other parts of text on the magazine is in green.
a cheap magazine.

4. The title is in white
Vogue magazine. The model is very
which is very feminine and
delicate, and even beautiful, and this
though the expresses that the
masthead is bold, it magazine will be
is also delicate and similar to that.
feminine. It goes
well with the model There isn’t much blank
used for the front space on this
cover and she fits in magazine, which is a typical
between where the occurrence for womens
G would be. magazines as it tells women
that the magazine is full of
The colour scheme is pink interesting stories and
and white, which shows pictures.
the magazine is aimed at
women. It colours used The expression on the models face is very
are very subtle and pretty relaxed and it’s almost like she hasn’t even
looking which suits the got any emotions at all, which shows that
whole entire theme for the magazine isn’t too serious or intense.
the magazine, which is She is acting as inspiration for other women,
fashion, men and beauty. as they will aspire to look like her.

5. Comparison.
Overall, these three magazines are all very different and are aimed at different genres
and target audiences. Total film magazine is aimed at males and females because they
used a variety of colours and the actor they used for the front cover is recognised by
everyone and he is in films that both males and females watch. However Empire
magazine would be aimed at mostly males, 16+. This is because of the masculine colour
scheme, and the background picture is a main character from a film mostly aimed at
men and boys. Lastly, Vogue magazine is extremely fashion based and very feminine so
it would obviously be aimed at women because of the colour scheme and the main
stories.

6. Extension task.
This Bollywood magazine doesn’t
look as professional and as good
quality as the English magazines.
There isn’t a consistent colour
scheme and the text is positioned
weirdly around the front cover.
You could say the magazine is
aimed at women as there is a
good looking male model on the
front and the colours used are
quite feminine, however you
could say it is aimed at males
because they could aspire to look
like the male model on the front
of the magazine.

7. Blair witch project trailer.
The blair with project trailer I think would be
aimed at teenagers as there are teenagers
involved in the actual film. The trailer
emphasises the fact that it is filmed with a
handheld camera, which makes it more
believable and also even more real.
Throughout the trailer there is a lot of heavy
breathing and screaming, which makes it much
more intense and again shows that it is a horror
film. A lot of the film is set in the dark and in the
woods, which is a typical place is set a horror
film.

8. The thing trailer.
This trailer starts with things seeming
normal, and then everything turned to a disaster.
The background music played a big part in this
trailer, as each camera cut occurred the music
got louder and louder. It seemed most of the film
was set in the dark, which makes it more scary
and intense.
Unlike the blair witch project, I think this film is
aimed at people 15+, as the blair witch project
seemed to mostly have teenagers in and was
filmed with a handheld camera, this film seems
much more professional and it has a bit more a
story line to it.

9. The woman in black trailer.
This trailer was more similar to the trailer for Thing
than the Blair witch project. It was more
professionally done and seemed much more modern.
Once again the music seemed to play a big part in
this trailer. The music was simple but high
pitched, which made it more ‘spine chilling’. It was
set in an old house and everything inside the house
was old and deteriorating. This made the film/trailer
more scary. Everything was gloomy and dark which
made it more spooky as you don’t know what is going
to happen and when it is going to happen.

10. The vow trailer.
The vow is romantic comedy, and this is
strongly shown through this trailer through
the music. The music is upbeat and happy,
the lighting, it is bright and never dark and
gloomy and the location, it’s set in busy and
romantic places such as fairy lit gardens and
beaches.
It is very different to the horror film trailers.
The audience for this film would be women
aged from around 15+.

11. Transformers trailer.
This trailer represents an action film
because the music is fast paced and
loud, the location is in a big city and the
typical storyline is that the city is under
attack. There are villians, a hero, and a love
interest.
There are lots of explosions and fighting
etc, and these trailers are more similar to
the horror film trailers than the romantic
comedy.