Research and planning magazine cover analysed

Smash Hits magazine cover analysed

This is the smash hits magazines cover, from looking at this I can tell that this is a Pop magazine from the colours that are used because it relates to girls at a certain age, who would look at these magazines. Also the font that has been used gives it away, that the genre of this magazine is Pop. There are lots of cover lines, which are related to "Teen gossip", which also tells me this is a Pop magazine. The layout of the magazine gives the idea that its not very "grown up"  all the main cover lines are all on one side and they give the impression of fun rather than serious, how we would take a Tv magazine for example, were it interest people, were as this Pop magazine is just aimed at teens and the gossip about the "hottest bands" ect. The way that the model is presented on the magazine, shows that the magazine is for young people as she is young herself, it also looks fresh, because she isn't presented with much makeup and done up, like we would have in a magazine such as VIBE, which is a RnB magazine, this contrast the age gap, and the way the media present a celebrity to the age groups. The main cover line "girls rule" is in a completely different font and colour to the rest of the magazine cover lines/tittle, the reason for this is, its something that will attract the teen girls and bring them towards the magazine. This magazine dose follow the three colour rule, as they have pink as a main colour which relates to the teen girls and is also stereo typical to the girls, and also the blue is a girly colour  and something that relates to girls and also they use yellow on the masthead and some of the cover lines.

This magazine is the Top of the Pops magazine, which is one of the most popular pop magazine going at the moment. From the outcome of this magazine I can see that its a pop magazine. This magazine follows the three colour rule, the main colours used here are pink yellow and blue, these colours are also used in the magazine above.The boys in the image give the impression that this magazine is fun and the faces are not serious and there just standing there looking at the camera smiling, which gives the impression that this magazine if fun, and young also like the boys. It implies that the magazine will be full of fresh things and things that relate to the teen girls like the boy band "one direction", the whole cover of the magazine has one direction, which tells the readers that this magazine is most likely  to be all about them also it has the logo in yellow, the colour yellow, is bright and attracts them more towards the magazine as it says 100% 1D. This magazine dose not have many cover lines scattered around the page,it only has 3 main ones based at the bottom of the page, this tells us that there wont be very much information in the magazine it will be more images and posters inside the magazine. The size of the masthead is appropriate for the magazine as its something that people are able to read what it says also it has a bright colour which relates to girls and it attracts the reader to notice the masthead.