Magazine Front Cover

Alice Godding

MastheadThe Masthead of this magazine is ‘top of the pops’. The font style is fun and modern with curved edges. This suggests a more informal target audience, which is also is portrayed by the bright pink and white colour palette. The colour pink connotes flirtatiousness, excitement and shows the magazine is suited for a mainly girls audience.

Central ImageThe main central image is of Alexandra Burke, who is a female singer attracting the young girly audience. The camera shot of this image is an ‘eye level shot’ of a ‘Mid close up’. This gives the effect of the pop star looking into your eyes, what ever view you are looking at the magazine from. This makes the audience focus on her eyes.

PuffThe puff of the magazine is giving away the opportunity to win a prize worth £1500, this suggests the prize would be of a high standard and worth entering. This indulges the audiences attention and makes them more interested in purchasing the magazine.

Coverlines

There are a range of Coverlines listed on the front page of this music magazine, they are mainly very girly and childlike to help attract the audiences attention. The magazine uses many Coverlines based on romance and fashion, as stereotypically girls aged between 10 and 15 are interested in these topics. For example ‘Love secrets from JLS’, many girls would be interested in reading this article as many young girls look up to JLS or find them attractive.

SplashThe main story on the front page of this magazine is based on Alexandra Burke and how she ‘Beat her Bullies’. This may grab the audiences attention if they are or have had trouble with bullies and spur them onto carry on reading. This also anchors the image and makes the audience focus on how such a popular, high rated woman like Alexandra Burke could experience bullying, this connotes equality.

House styleThe colour palette of this magazine is mainly Pink, white and yellow. In general these colours connote happiness, fun, partying and a strong vibe of a ‘girliness’. The colour yellow individually connotes joy, optimism and happiness. The colour pink connotes energy, competition and also happiness, where as the colour white connotes youth, purity and simplicity; which creates a simple, informal structure and approach to the magazine. These three colours are bold and eye catching, which catches the audiences attention and involves their attention.

LayoutThe layout of this front cover is very informal and busy, this mirrors the target audience which is of a younger age range, 10-15 and mainly female. There is a large central image as well as many smaller sub images filling up the page. There isn’t much text, which also creates an informal approach. This suggests the people in these images are well known and will grab the audiences attention, with just a quick glance. There are also small cartoon images, for example the heart with an arrow stabbing through it, which also suggests the target audience is of a younger register.

AudienceThe audience of this magazine is mainly aimed at females aged between 10 and 16. This is portrayed by the informality of the magazine; structure, colour palette, many small images as well as a large central image and the choice of Coverlines. The audience would be in full education and earning no income, therefor advertisements and fashion being promoted in this magazine should be at a low price. The audience are people interested in fashion, love, friendship and boys, which largely influences the articles posted in this magazine. The demographics of this magazine audience would be group E as the audience is mainly students receiving a small, if any income.