The document compares the layout and design of the front covers of three music magazine issues: Top of the Pops, Smash Hits, and We 'heart' Pop. It analyzes elements such as the image, coverlines, main coverline, title, tagline, price, and date on each cover and where they are positioned as well as how much space they take up.

1. Top of the Pops We ‘heart’ Pop Smash Hits
Image It is positioned in the centre of the The image covers the whole page and The image is mostly on the right hand
Where is it positioned? page. It takes up a huge amount of the is positioned slightly more to the right side of the page and takes up just over
How much of the page does it take page as it is the main image. of the page. Young boy band member, half of the front cover.
up? catches the target audiences eye.
Coverlines The coverlines are squeezed around The coverlines are all positioned The coverlines are all along the left
Where is it positioned? the main image. Most coverlines are around and on top of the image. They hand side of the page and takes up a
How much of the page does it take place all over the image except from don’t take up a huge amount of room huge amount of room on the page.
up? the artists face. as the font is small.
Main coverline The main coverline is covering the The main coverline is positioned to the The main coverline is positioned
Where is it positioned? image a lot. It stands out the most and right of the image and is in a large font across the main image and takes up
How much of the page does it take takes up the most room. Also has a and therefore takes up quite a large quite a large amount of space as it
up? variety of different colours for amount of room. covers the bottom half of the image.
different letters which makes it stand
out further
Title The title is based over the top of the The title is positioned to the top left It is across the top left hand
Where is it positioned? image. This is quite unusual as a lot of hand corner but not completely at the corner of the page. It takes up
How much of the page does it take magazines put their title behind the top of the page. It takes up a very quite a significant amount of
up? image to help the image stand out small amount of room considering it’s
more. It doesn’t take up a huge the title.
room.
amount of space but it is very
noticeable and stands out.
Tagline The tagline is ‘Don’t bore us. Get to The tagline ‘hogging the hits’ is
Where is it positioned? the chorus’ it is positioned under the positioned just above the title in a
How much of the page does it take title and is in quite a small font so very small fault and therefore doesn’t
up? doesn’t take up a lot of space. take up a lot of room.
Price The price is positioned at the bottom The price is positioned on the bottom The price is positioned next to the
Where is it positioned? of the page and is very small and not right hand corner of the page next to barcode and below the image on the
How much of the page does it take too obvious to the reader. the barcode. It is small and not easy to bottom right hand of page. It is in a
up? recognise straight away. very small font and isn’t very
noticeable.
Date The date is also positioned at the The date is also positioned on the The date is positioned right under the
Where is it positioned? bottom of the page under the image bottom right hand corner of the page price and is also in a very small font
How much of the page does it take and is written in small font so isn't by the barcode. It is the same font size and quite difficult to notice straight
up? obvious to the reader. as the price and isn’t very noticeable. away.