Analyse of a magazine cover.

            The Masthead it bold yet hidden, suggesting Its a well know magazine so It doesn't all need to be on there.

                    The main image draws fans in to buy the magazine.                                                                                                                  Buzz words are used in cover lines to get peoples attention, maybe if they are interested in that subject 

The Main cover line goes with the image on the background, so in this case youtubers.

Graphics on the text draws eyes, from this example you can see that it's for teenagers due to the informal font and the bright colours.   

 There is a bar-code which 

is important for buying the magazine.

  It is clear that the demographics of this magazine is teenagers. I can obviously tell this due to the bold and bright use of the colours pink yellow and white. Alongside the text, you can clearly see this magazine is for teenagers due to the image used, Zoe Sugg and Tyler Oakley, Two famous Youtubers- icons of many Teenagers. The informal style of the wide range of text is very important for the magazine to meet the needs of the demographics. The reason for there to be a need of a range in fonts is so the audience don't lose the interest when looking at the front cover, which this cover does very well, joined by the colours. The design characteristics of this magazine meets the requirements very well of the the demographics to sell the magazine, because the Image fills the entire page- to make it eye catching. This would help sell the magazine because all the fans of these celebrities would be wanting to buy it and would be able to see it on a shelf from far away, where their parents were standing perhaps. The fact the title goes behind the head of the people in the image is also simple yet very important when it comes to analyse because it shows this is a well know magazine so people would clearly already know the title of this magazine so it doesn't need to be on show for the target market to buy the product.  To improve this magazine I believe the image shouldn't be centred and should be to the left or the right hand side because that way the writing would all be on one side other than down the side of both.

Music magazine analyse and plan

Magazines:

Whilst looking for magazines to analyse, I came across this one from the band 5 Seconds Of Summer- the band that I was searching for. However, this magazine I feel isn't a great layout and isn't one that I would like to use. The reason for this is because it's very crammed at the bottom of the cover yet its quite empty and the top. I would avoid this when making my final music magazine by making sure all text is equally spread out but isn't lots of writing- this bores the reader- which is the main thing on which I intend to avoid. Also as there is 4 members of the band the whole width of the cover is taken up is the image- leaving no space, which is why the writing would be at the bottom. The way in which I will approach avoiding this will be by making the image on the background just one person of a "band" and make sure on the side I will explain that there is a page in the rest of the magazine with information on the whole group. Which will intrigue people to buy it to read the rest of the stories.  

This is another magazine cover that I found. Even though the layout is a bit similar to the one above I much prefer this one because the font of the text is much more eye grabbing and there isn't that much making it not seem as crammed. However like the one above I won't be using a photo that covers the whole width. Even though I will not be making my magazine cover in this way, the fact the Image covers the entity of the page, creates a very simple yet eye grabbing cover.  The reason I will use this one as my inspiration is because the colour of the back ground and just the whole set out of the magazine is much more mature and would be set the older age demographics alongside with the fans of 5 Seconds Of summer. The way this magazine would grab the eye of the target market is because of the big image of the band. Obviously, for my image I won't be using 5 Seconds Of Summer, however I will make my image of one person and make out they are a member from a band. I also like how the Sky Line of this magazine is
"Exclusive posters inside!" the reason for this is because the fans are likely to buy a magazine when they get a free poster for their wall (clearly proving the target audience of teenagers again). Furthermore, in terms of denotation the text in this magazine is very short yet sharp, easily grabbing eyes to read it, this is helping my the font displayed across the top and the bottom of the page, yet not the middle, other wise this would take away focus from 5 Seconds Of Summer.

This is the type of image I plan to use for my magazine, however the layout won't be as "Young Teeny" it would be a more mature layout like the magazine in the middle of this blog^. To make this effect of mature, I will shoot my images for my magazine in a studio with just a plain background. The reason behind this is because I feel like backgrounds that are photos take away too much attention from the main reason of the magazine- the famous person on the cover. Many people see 5 Seconds Of Summer as a Pop band due to one song of theirs, however after listening to their other songs- especially their newer releases they are much more Pop rock/punk. I intend to make this style in my magazine through the clothing just like the one above. The semiotics which are shown in all these images are the bandanna, along with the poses, this is very important as it conveys a very rock vibe for the reader. The poses that are held, especially the single photo on the right, shows a "rock out" sign used with his hands which is hopefully what I would like to get from the person in which I shoot; Which would create connotation in the viewer of the emotion of the signs as they would feel (hopefully) happy to see this, alongside the text font would create a really excited and bold feeling in the audience. Therefore I will use bandannas and eyeliner for the person i shoot- therefore I will use a female for my image. Another aspect which I find very important in a magazine is the pose in which they hold. This i because I believe the pose with holds lots of information about the people in the image/magazine cover. I will place the person I shoot in the pose like the one shown here.

Magazine Evaluation

My Magazine!

My original copy.

This was the photo I chose for my magazine 

background. With its orange background 

it made it much easier for me 

to add a background on photoshop 

when it came to doing so.

The reason I had chosen this photo

 was because I found this image the 

best one out of all the ones taken- due to my glasses, 

most of the images had the glare from the lights on,

 however this one didn't. 

My edited copy.

The first thing in which I done to edit my photo was that 

i cropped it. This was by using the cropping tool. I done 

this because I believe the original copy had too much space

 above my head and if I had a title on that it was get lost in so

 much space- or I would have had to make the title a lot bigger, 

which I didn't want to do. I then made the entire picture black 

and white. The reason for which I done this was because I felt

 like with a more deep photo, it draws the eye more when only 

the writing is bright, rather than lots of colour on both the image 

and the writing. 

The end result of my magazine!

For my magazine, I think the colours of the writing works very well, because it is eye catching, especially the yellow writing- which is the main part of the writing to draw an eye to the magazine. I also think the colour of the background and image being black and white works very well along side the coloured writing. However, I believe that the colour of the title needs to be much more clear. I will go ahead on doing this next time by positioning it better on the background. Also I will make the colour of the title the brightest or boldest piece of writing on this page because I feel that the title has become lost with the amount of writing which is on the image.  Also I tried to use different fonts of the writing to draw in more attention but I found that certain fonts also became lost- which is supported with the writing of "From Zalfie to Narcus". When I make my music magazine I will make sure the background and writing are positioned so that every piece of writing can be clearly seen by the viewer. Additionally, another way to improve this magazine cover would be to move certain texts around more, for explain the "Channing Tatum says" , with it being across the forehead on the image, it is very distracting so I would more all text to the side so even though the text is eye grabbing, it wouldn't take focus away from the image of the magazine.