2. The mast head is very bold and
written in san serif, which attracts Front cover A banner at the top of the
the audiences straight away. Also,
the colour being a bright pink allows page, introduces the
The producer and
the title to stand out and also hints audience to what is contained
distributor is always
what sort of audience is it aimed at. inside.
displayed on the top left
hand corner.
The ‘girly’ font here introduces
Displaying a very popular and hints to the audience, who
BOY band on the front cover, it is aimed at.
helps attract the target
audience as they are very
popular with this target The colour purple is kept the
audience and age group. same throughout this front cover,
This also could increase as it displays the colour purple
sales. here, in the sell line and the
banner; this keeps a consistent
We can see that the artist is looking colour theme throughout.
straight into the cameras lens, which is The producer has chosen
good as it creates a relationship between particular artists to feature on
the target audience and the magazine- the front cover, by using
could increase the chance that they’d end someone like Rihanna, which
up picking it up and buying it! We can also most girls want to be like and
see that the artist is smiling which shows look up to, it increases the
conventions of a typically Pop Magazine, chance of a person buying the
as the model is meant to create the mood magazine and wanting to read
happiness. The model is also directed in about them.
the middle of the page as well, which is
very conventional for this type of magazine Using language like ‘OMG’, links back
genre. to the types f language/ slang that the
audience will be very familiar with and
A bar code and price is mainly we also know it means ‘Oh my god’
displayed here on the page. Its which straight away draws the audience
also rotated to save space. into the magazine
Using language like
Using large quotations here draws the
‘Exclusive’ draws the
The cover has kept conventions reader into what could be displayed in the
reader in straight away, it
of the three colour scheme rule, magazine, could encourage the audience
Small speech bubbles to creates the idea that this
which is purple, white and to buy the magazine. We also know if its
show humour, which also magazine only contains
black- all colours that link with on the front cover, it’s the most important
links to the idea of attracting the best information and
the target audience. information.
the target audience. artists.
3. Contents Page. Continuing on from
the front cover, the
A visual image to catch
same ‘girly’ font
the readers eye.
has been used to
Instead of the using the title ‘contents display a
page’, this magazine has used consistent format.
something different and continued to
use bright colours like pink to attract We can see here that the information has
their young female audience. been highlighted, in order to show the
audience that it is talking about boys. As
the young, female audience are most
interested in this, I think this was good in
order to attract there attention.
The front cover has been
displayed on the contents
page in a more visual
ways. A lot of other
I like how the magazine is
magazines don’t do this,
divided up into square boxes,
but I think it has worked
as it displays the information
well doing this, as the
as clear and well readable.
reader can get straight to
the part they want to read
first.
The magazine has Has used the same artists again on
been divided up into the contents page, however putting
clear and structured them in a circle shape instead, This
categories, to make it would allow the picture to stand out
easier for the reader more, as it is shaped differently to the
and allows them to rest of the information. It also looks
understand what there more interesting.
is to read about,
The page number is often displayed at the
bottom of the page, and uses WOB (white
over black) which allows it more to stand
out.
4. Double Page Spread.
Here is an introduction to this The added features here By having this snippet
information that is displayed below, we make the spread look more of information in the top
can see that the artists name is interesting, it shows the lines right hand corner, helps
displayed in a bigger and bolder font so going into the artists which the reader indicate
it is made clearer to audience who the suggests that everything is what information is
article is about. It also shows about her displayed on this page
connotations that she is the most and also shows
important on this page. continuous consistently
from the contents page.
The main title here is
exaggerated and
shows extra
connotations off the The artists is again
word big, by putting it looking straight into the
in a bigger font in lens of the camera,
comparison to the which attracts the
rest. reader straight away if
they are flicking
The information here is
through the magazine.
displayed as an
interview, and we can
see the questions and
answers clearly as the Same font again has been
colour pink is displayed used, in order to link back to
as the questions and the rest of the magazine.
black is the answers. A
lot of other magazines Including page numbers on
do this in this format, so Here is an extra mini article, that the spread, again makes it
this would be known as consists of the same font style clear for the audience to see
conventional. and colour as the rest of the what is displayed on this page
magazine. It is good that the and also links back to contents
magazine displays a continuous page well. Also, continuing
Informs reading design format as it makes the with the WOB page numbers,
to turn over the magazine seem more makes the magazine look
page. professional. professional.
