Initial Magazine Cover Research

Magazine 1

Bar code – lots of magazine cover have their

own bar code

The mast head – big and bold name of the magazine. It is easy to see and is eye-catching, because as is in

red. The name of magazine is behind image of

character so this mean that character and article about him is more important than

magazine

Cover lines/tag lines – the advertisement of articles, which will be find inside

the magazine

Image (mid shot) – the mid shot of character, of which article is inside the magazine

Look out of magazine– this encourage readers to read it, as it looks as Captain Jack is looking out of the magazine cover on every person who is looking on it

Colours – the colours mostly are bright and eye-

catching. Yellow, white, red or black colour text stand

out on blue background, so they are easy to read and

see

Information to the image– Little explanation why they put this image is written in

black circle in white and yellow font. This is

outstanding as whole magazine background is in blue shades, where only this information is on the

black background

Magazine 2 The mast head –big and bold and in

additionally written in different font style to the

rest of the text in magazine cover. This makes it

outstanding and eye-catching .

Name of the magazine is on the image, which means that magazine is more

important than model or in this case actress which is on

the cover.

Image – close up – the image on this

magazine cover is close up shot.

This is because this magazine cover is about

beauty so through the close up, readers can notice MES,

for example her make-up

Font- The colour of font is mostly white, however name of the

magazine is in pink. Readers can notice that words

such as ‘skin’ ‘make-up’ are bigger than another and are in bold. Probably this is done in

this way, because this is beauty magazine.

Also we can notice that some titles are written in different

type font than others

Facial expression and looking out of magazine cover

- Readers can notice that actress who is on magazine

cover smile and look out the magazine, this encourage them to read this article

Slogan- On this magazine cover we

can notice slogan. This helps readers to know

what is this magazine company about .

Magazine 2The mast head – big and

bold name of the magazine. It is easy to see and is

written in different font style than other title or

text, which makes it outstanding.

However name of the company is behind the

image, which makes it less important than image.

Image – long shot – image is long shot, because this is

important for this magazine, as it is fashion and beauty magazine, to show MES to the readers.Model is also look out of

the magazine, which encourage readers to read

it.

Slogan – there is slogan to inform readers what is

about this magazine. On this magazine is written

‘CANADASNo1FASHION&BEAUTY MAGAZINE’.

This encourage readers to buy it as it tells that this

fashion&beauty magazine is the best in Canada.

Date – on this magazine cover readers can notice

date of the release of this magazine. Is it important as

mostly magazines are released every months, no readers should be aware from which months (and

year) magazine is.

Font – different type and colours of the font makes this magazine cover eye-

catching. Also text written in blue box

on white background (which is oppositional to

the rest of magazine) makes it outstanding and

important

Magazine 3Date – on this magazine cover readers can notice

date of the release of this magazine.

The mast head – the name of the company is big,

however is not eye-catching because approximately half

of it is cover by image of James Bond

Cover lines/tag lines – ‘JAMES BOND’ is written in capital latters is bold and

white. This shows that this is one of the most

important thing on this magazine cover. Even

more important than name of the company

Straplines– highlights articles about other

celebrities

Colours – the colours are mostly similar to each

other. They are different shades of blue or grey.There is also one title

written in red which stand out from the res

Image – close up on James’ Bond face shows his facial

expression, which is serious and makes him

look mysterious. He is also looking out of the magazine, so the

combination of this encourage readers to buy

or read this magazine as it looks interesting