Assignment Bank 3: Print (Magazine) - Analysing a Magazine Cover.

We love pop, is a girly magazine, it mainly about gossip, fashion and boys.  The target audience for this magazine is pre teens and teenage girls. From the ages 12/13-16. Girls from this sort of age group are usually interested with fashion, boys and of course the latest hot gossip. The central image is an ‘X-Factor’ judge, and is also a member of ‘N Dubz’ Tulisa Contostavlos. She gives off a direct mode of address; she does this by staring directly at the camera. This will get the audience’s attention, and allows a connection to be made with the reader. It allows attracts the reader’s attention as she is a new judge on the X Factor, most people, including children, teenagers and adults enjoy this show and already know Tulisa because of her music. The anchorage text says ‘Tears, Strepsils and Tesco! The X Factor star keeps it real’. This implies that even thought she is a known celebrity and star in the UK, she does the same things as everyone else., she is an emotional person, as she ‘cries’, she gets ill and she shops in Tesco’s. this shows that she is your day to day person, she is no different from anyone else, the fame has not changed her. There aren’t any groups being represented on the cover of the magazine, also there are 3 small images to the bottom left of the magazine. The images include 3 women, who are young and dress well. This attracts young readers as they would aspire to be like these women. To the top left hand corner of the magazine, buzz words such as ‘brand new mag’ and towards the centre ‘world exclusive’ are used. This engages the reader as it is a cool new magazine with lots of new gossip. The design of the block title tells me that the magazine is defiantly aimed at young teenage girls, this is because the title is “we       pop”. This represents the magazine as bubbly and loud, just like teenage girls. The title of the magazine tells us that it is aimed at teenagers because of the images and language used. The colours used are quite bold, most teenage girls like the colour pink and this is why I think the layout used , to attract teenage girls. Also it’s a bold and bright colour, so it will catch the eye. The ‘puffs’ tell us that there is going to be a lot of teenage-related content in the magazine. This includes Justin Bieber, and he attracts a lot of teenage girls. There is also more text about boys being included in this magazine; also fashion is going to be involved in the mag. This tells me that the type of audience that the magazine expects to get is teenage girls.