Friday, 30 September 2011

500 Word Magazine Cover Analysis.


Vogue magazine have used many techniques to draw your attention more to their cover than any other competitors on the shelves. It is a magazine aimed at women with an interest in fashion.
They include their recognisable masthead which has been carefully designed into an elegant style to suit the style of the contents in the magazine.
The model credit is very different to normal fashion magazines, often you see skinny models who some women desire to look like. The model credit on this issue quotes: ‘Real Women Have Curves, Beyonce at Her Best.’ This just shows how Vogue are trying to draw your attention with a difference.
The main image is a very familiar face with most females and males. She is a well known artist who is also known for her image so most people who see the magazine will know who she is. The background behind the main image has an element of nature to it creating a more natural feel to the magazine which matches what they have written in their cover lines.
Vogue have included the standard barcode on the bottom left of the cover for the shops use.
They have most of the cover lines on the left third of the magazine; this keeps your focus mostly on the main image itself. It is not over cluttered and fairly simplistic which helps keeps the elegant style Vogue is trying to create.
Vogue magazine does not include a selling line on this front cover; they might be hoping the magazine cover design is enough to sell the magazine to their intended audience. Most of the audience they are trying to attract are women interested in catwalk fashions and staying on trend without a low budget. The magazine defiantly does not have a ‘cheap’ look about it and matches the style of their target audience.
The dateline is as simplistic as you can get, they just include the abbreviated version of the month it is for, it doesn’t include the price next to it so you will not know the price of the magazine until you get it to the checkout. This is probably a good tactic as you may be shocked about the price you see on the cover and put it back if it is too expensive for you.
This is a special issue magazine cover which includes fashion for women of all sizes which, stereotypically you don’t normally see on a high end fashion magazine. This is a unique selling point for the issue as people who do not normally buy Vogue may consider it more on this issue.
Vogue have used the main image as the main colour on the magazine, they have added some different blues on some of the cover lines too. This issue of Vogue is very simplistic but still has quite a dark colour to it from the navy blue on the main image and the colour black they have used on the masthead.
Vogue has their main target audience and they have met their needs to help them choose Vogue over any other competing fashion magazine. In this issue they have also covered a wider range of target audience so they will get more readers hopefully in the future.Vogue magazine have used many techniques to draw your attention more to their cover than any other competitors on the shelves. It is a magazine aimed at women with an interest in fashion.
They include their recognisable masthead which has been carefully designed into an elegant style to suit the style of the contents in the magazine.
The model credit is very different to normal fashion magazines, often you see skinny models who some women desire to look like. The model credit on this issue quotes: ‘Real Women Have Curves, Beyonce at Her Best.’ This just shows how Vogue are trying to draw your attention with a difference.
The main image is a very familiar face with most females and males. She is a well known artist who is also known for her image so most people who see the magazine will know who she is. The background behind the main image has an element of nature to it creating a more natural feel to the magazine which matches what they have written in their cover lines.
Vogue have included the standard barcode on the bottom left of the cover for the shops use.
They have most of the cover lines on the left third of the magazine; this keeps your focus mostly on the main image itself. It is not over cluttered and fairly simplistic which helps keeps the elegant style Vogue is trying to create.
Vogue magazine does not include a selling line on this front cover; they might be hoping the magazine cover design is enough to sell the magazine to their intended audience. Most of the audience they are trying to attract are women interested in catwalk fashions and staying on trend without a low budget. The magazine defiantly does not have a ‘cheap’ look about it and matches the style of their target audience.
The dateline is as simplistic as you can get, they just include the abbreviated version of the month it is for, it doesn’t include the price next to it so you will not know the price of the magazine until you get it to the checkout. This is probably a good tactic as you may be shocked about the price you see on the cover and put it back if it is too expensive for you.
This is a special issue magazine cover which includes fashion for women of all sizes which, stereotypically you don’t normally see on a high end fashion magazine. This is a unique selling point for the issue as people who do not normally buy Vogue may consider it more on this issue.
Vogue have used the main image as the main colour on the magazine, they have added some different blues on some of the cover lines too. This issue of Vogue is very simplistic but still has quite a dark colour to it from the navy blue on the main image and the colour black they have used on the masthead.
Vogue has their main target audience and they have met their needs to help them choose Vogue over any other competing fashion magazine. In this issue they have also covered a wider range of target audience so they will get more readers hopefully in the future. 

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