Magazine Cover

This magazine would appeal to women aged from 18+. We know this by the type of articles that they speak about such as advertising girls’ clothing and talking about perfect hair styles. We can also infer this due to a young model advertising this magazine relating to the target audience.

This magazine draws the audience’s attention in straight away due to many reasons. For example, the unique selling point of this cover is the celebrity Kristen Stewart. Therefore having her cover the whole cover is successful in grabbing the audience’s attention. She is also displayed over the masthead of magazine ‘Vogue’. This is actually successful as we know that Vogue is an extremely popular magazine that has many viewers therefore we don’t actually need to see the whole word displayed at the top as we can determine what the magazine is just by the first and last letter. However, this is still displayed at the top covering the whole magazine width ways. The larger and bolder font helps it stand out from the rest of the cover.

We then have the light white background which actually blends in with Kirsten Stewarts top and makes her face and blue eyes which are engaging with the audience stand out, her direct address allows the audience to feel like this magazine was made for them. We have her in the centre of the poster again so she has that attention while the cover lines are positioned around her. We range through black, red and white writing on the poster. These colours are quite plain and simple therefore make the cover look professional as they all blend well and can also infer it is aimed at an older target audience. On the left hand side we have what looks like the more important part of information. We can infer this due to it being on the left hand side of the magazine as an a audience we alternate from the left to the right wen we read, we expect the left hand side to draw us in to allow us to want to buy the magazine. This is shown in this magazine with the second largest front being the number ‘50’. The large font draws us in and makes the front cover stand out even more. The ’50 classic looks for spring’ will intrigue the target audience to buy this magazine as many females will look for vogue magazines for guidance for what to wear every season, as vogue will not disappoint! Below in black we have attributive adjectives such as “timeless coat” and “irresistible prices”. This is effective as it will make more people want to buy the magazine for this amazing coat that is worth being advertised on the front cover. On the opposite in white we then had the rhetorical question “perfect hair at what risk?” this shows that the magazine is willing to give professional help to the target audience who want that perfect hair like Kristen Stewart.

We can connote the red infers the most important topics such as vogue, Kristen Stewart and the main topic of the magazine is all displayed in red. The reason Kristen’s name is bolder and shown in red is because red is a powerful colour and stands out from the light background, as the white isn’t so clear inferring it’s not as important and even though the black is clear it still isn’t in a large or bold font suggesting it’s not as important as the red.