Magazines, especially those popular with woman are very conventional, and follow an image portraying the perfect woman, or ideal status that women want to achieve. This is something that I chose to follow when creating my magazine.
Typically, mainstream magazines follow strict regimes, and it is obvious within many of the magazines on the market. As you can see on the Seventeen magazine cover I have chosen, the colours are very bold, something that I have chosen to represent in my own magazine, and the model is sporting a subjective gaze, and seemingly a ‘perfect’ smile. This is something that the magazine company wants the audience to aspire to be like. In this particular magazine, the mast head is bold, and therefore stands out on the cover, despite the cover lines and bright choice of clothing worn by the model.
In addition to this, there are a variety of cover lines, one main one which is based at the bottom of the page, due to the fact that the readers eye may initially be draw to the model’s face, therefore they do not want to distract them from this. There is an obvious colour scheme of blue, pink and yellow, to make the magazine look professional and not over stated and tacky. Also, this means that the front cover won’t look too full and complex.
This magazine cover has bright lines at the top and the bottom of the page, in order to give the page structure, as well as notifying the audience of any other details that the magazine will include. This is a feature that is used in many mainstream magazines to give the page a splash of colour, and to make certain features of the page stand out; something that I also included in my magazine.
These types of covers often include smaller images, referring to the contents inside, and colloquial or ‘chatty’ language, to draw in a wider audience, since they are not targeting a niche target market, but a class of working women. The magazine company realises that these women will not be reading these magazines in order to get an insight into the world’s economic challenges, but seemingly to have a break from their own work, and get updated with fashion and celebrity gossip, therefore the language is simple and understandable for any every day woman.
I decided that my magazine would follow these trends, since it is highly successful and the idea of having the perfect image is slowly being represented in the younger age range, hence my idea to target the teenage market. My magazine therefore represents the pop and commercial side of marketing and magazine cultures, something that is very popular within this age range. Magazines that influenced me where those such as Clash, Seventeen and Sugar since they all maintain the essence of conventional stereotypes, something which I feel I portray within my magazine.
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