Analysis of Pop Magazine Front Cover 1:The Masthead and the logo are the same. This gives the magazine a unique identity, making it easier to recognize by the audience. This way consumers don’t have to look for it the can spot it out from all the other magazines.

The main colours used: other than the grey for the background: are red, white and black. This creates a subtle contrast with the image and the writing, making the front cover stand out.

Lady Gaga is being sexually represented and she is being used in a way to attract a certain king of audiences. Additionally the way she, looks and the way she’s dressed depicts a persona of someone who is bold, dearing and unafraid. Furthermore, this could also be used to create shock in the audience, because: even if in the media ‘sex’ is used to sell products, it’s still quite shocking to society.

The white is used the most, on the magazine. Both for the logo of the magazine and the main cover line. Additionally red and black are used to attract attention to, the headings of the articles, on the magazines.

The colours used for the back ground allow the writing to stand out In a way that it is not obvious to the audience.

Part of Lady Gaga’s name is partially hidden by her image. This is like saying that her image is more important than her name. Like the audience know of her before they know about her name.

The sentence ‘Move Over Madonna….Lady GAGA Has Risen’ is used to start a debate or argument and be controversial. Since Madonna is considered the queen of pop, it’s implies that she has been dethroned by this new singer: known as Lady Gaga.

Since Taylor Swift is a very famous and talented musician, there are many people who like her music or are fans of her. By using her image as the front cover, many of her fans will be willing to buy this month’s issue of the magazine (just because she is on it). Her image ensures, to the magazine, that consumer will buy their magazine.

The colour used for the background is a greyish-white colour: which contrast with the image of Taylor Swift, but in quite a subtle way. This gives the cover a more classic and chic look, making it look more professional.

The lack of writing connotes that the magazine is already quite established in its market. Furthermore thanks to the popularity of the magazine, it doesn’t need to use too many buzz words, or puffs, to attract the audience.

Due to the lack of witting, the magazine could be relying on the popularity of their brand: the fact that once the consumer sees the name of the magazine, they will want to buy it.

Analysis of Pop Magazine Front Cover 2:

The dress that Taylor Swift is wearing, give the magazine cover a sense of classiness. This is because it is not a normal everyday dress: this is a simple looking but classy dress.

The font used for the writing resembles the one used for wedding invitations, inferring that the magazine is important of high class.

The name of the magazine is ‘Top of the pop’ this blatantly show that the audience, of the magazine, like pop music. Also considering how the front cover is laid out, and packed with puffs and information, this implies that the audience is teenagers. The colour orange it usually considered gender neutral, this implies that the audience of the magazine are both girls and boys.

The main colours used are orange, white and black. The orange is used to highlight buzzwords like: “Shock”.

Other colours added to the front cover were yellow, red and a bit of grey. This is to section off specific Information and to give the front cover some colour.

White is used as the background of the front cover, but also for the Name (masthead) of the magazine. Additionally black is used the witting that give extra information about an article.

Using all this images of celebrities, on the front cover, should attract a lot more of the audience than using just one celebrity. This is because you won’t only have Justin Bieber fans buying the magazine, but also Rihanna fans, one direction fans and fans of the other celebrities. In addition, for the magazine this means that sales are going to increase and bring in a lot of revenue to the company.

Analysis of Pop Magazine Front Cover 3:There are many people that watch and are fans of the X-factor. So even if consumers don’t usually read this magazine, if they are a viewer of X-factor, this Puff will convince them to buy the magazine. Just for the chance to meet their favourite up and coming celebs.