MusicMagazineResearch

The image used on this front cover is a medium close up, showing the top half of her body. The font and colours used suggests that this magazine is aimed at girls. The colour scheme used is pink and grey, which shows that is quite simple and plain. The language of the magazine is formal because there isn’t a lot of slang, so not many teenagers could relate to this magazine whereas more 18-25s could.

The image used is a long shot, showing most of her body. This magazine cover also had a colour scheme, which is mainly blue and black, but with a white background to make the writing stand out. The overall appearance of the magazine suggest that it could be for boys or girls. The language of the magazine is informal by using words like “D’oh, This appeals to a target audience of teenagers. The language of the magazine also appeals to teenagers by what they call the articles, such as “BOYFRIEND-TRASHING RADIO-RULING GIRL NEXT DOOR” this attracts them because they are using the same language.

The image used is a close up, showing her face. The colours of the magazine are feminine and girly, because of their use of bright luminous colours for example the yellow background, which makes all the objects in the foreground stand out more. The masthead had two different colours, pink and white, the pink is used as both the outline and some on the colouring. The two letters left in masthead say “sh!” which could mean that there is gossip in the magazine that is exclusive, this type of language appeals to the target audience, which would be teenage girls.

The contents page is quite minimalist, and dull apart from the two strips going down the middle. The word contents looks as if has been crumpled up because of the little creases. The contents also has an editors note on, which tells you about what they aim to do through out their magazines. This contents page isn’t very colourful or very informative.

The contents page is very modern and has a lot of different colours on and is aimed at teenagers. The titles of the articles split through the page and the background for the word contents is people at a gig or a party, the different styles of writing make it more noticeable and catch more peoples eyes, because the writing bends around the different objects. Having the black background makes the different articles and writing stand out .

The contents page is split mainly between an image and writing. The image is of a guitarist in black and white, then with bold colourful writing over the top, to make it standout to the audience. The second half is the writing, with a small picture in the top corner, which has a striped background and a man with a green face which could show envy. The rest of the page is quite boring but easily readable.

The double page spread has one large image covering more of the pages, three of them are faded out into the background and only one in the foreground to make him stand out more than the others. The title of the article is ‘will he or wont he?’ is split in to two colours gold and grey, the gold blends in with is and also his name is will. I .am.

The double page spread is split between an image and writing. The image is of a family, which could be quite hard to understand to certain types of audiences. The article look quite boring and simple, and would be suitable for older people or people who like to real true life stories.