Magazine Cover Reaserch

To begin my preliminary work, first if all I searched online to find out how other popular magazine producers displayed there magazines.This would drive in the right direction to creating my own magazine cover for a school/collage. I examined the font, Style, Contexts and colors and how the convey a magazine cover.
 In conclusion to this, I looked at how different magazines are aimed a different people and genders. For example the way that Console magazines are aimed at gamers and mostly males.

This is a typical example of a 'girly' magazine. This magazine purpose would be to inform woman about this years cloth fashion, how to look better, how to increase your confidence ect. Notice how it is very bright and colourfull. The most noticable colours are pink and white. We accosiate pink as a very feminine colour. All the subheadings that are dissplayed are related to a womans life. For example, in bright pink on the left hand side, it says "43 things every confident woman knows", this is aimed at a female audience.

The most obvious picture shown is a woman. This also tell buyers that this is magazine is for woman.The fonts shown are very big and bright, this is to attract the target audience. The title of the magazine "Glamour" is very clearly shown at the top of the magazine. The first time I saw the magazine, the title and the woman as the first thing that caught my eye as they use most of the space available.

In contrast to the "Glamour" magazine, i have chosen to study a games magazine. This targets a younger, more teenage audience. The purpose of this magazine is to inform teenagers about the latests games, gaming eqiupment, soon coming games ect. This particulare magazine is advatising a new realised game, "Medal of Honor". The chosen colours in this magazine are quite dark. However, they use bright yellow on the title to catch the readers eye. I think the reason they chose dark colours to promote this game is because it is a combat/war type of game. Dark colours suite this genre. the first this i notice about this magazine is the man holding a huge gun. this is also the main picture of the magaizine. This is a very good picture to use for this particular front cover magazine as it attracts a gamers eye. The font used for the title is very big and very clear.

These magazines have helped me towards creating my own magazine cover. It has told me that the fonts, styles, images, colours and contexts should all suite the genre on the magazine and be appropriate for the target audience.