Preliminary Analysis

As one of my first tasks I have to create a magazine cover. Firstly however, I needed to analyse some of the magazine covers that students made last year, this is called Preliminary Analysis. By doing this it will give me some ideas for my own magazine cover, also it will make me see what kind of topics people did their magazines on.

I analysed a magazine called 'Mizz Glam' this magazine described itself as 'The guide to student fashion'. The main reason that you can tell that it is a magazine front cover is that there is a serif font masthead, reversed out, straplines, coverlines, bar codes, price of the magazine, main sell and screamers. These are a lot of the conventions that you would expect to see on a magazine front cover.

The audience of a magazine is very important. I believe that this magazine was aimed at females ( because of the beauty and fashion tips, also because of the posters ) ages 16-19, Demographic Classification, C1 and Psychographic profile, mainstreamers.

I believe the magazine cover successfully targeted its audience because it includes all the latest fashion and beauty tips. It also includes gossip about celebrities that most people have heard of and that the audience would want to know about. It also includes free posters of sporty boys, this would attract the audience into buying the magazine more, especially because of the age of the targeted audience. The colours being pink and orange could conote quite girly things such as sweets or flowers, this could attract the target audience as girls tend to like those types of colours.. Also the model on the front cover looks very nice and the target audience would want to be able to look like her. The magazine cover successfully grabs its audience's attention by all of the above reasons.