This is a cover of female celebrity gossip and fashion magazine, More! which is a magazine I enjoy reading. I like the magazine for their stories, features and overall layout. I like how the colour scheme for every isuue the magazine brings out, the colour scheme is different, mainly matching the cover model. The colour scheme for this uses attractive and feminime colours to match the magazines audience, which are young females aged 16-30. Although there are other colours used such as yellow, the colours still work well with one another as they highlight key information on the magazines cover so that the audience can notice it and be more drawn to reading it. This is something I would like to achieve in my magazine's front cover by try to make key information more noticeable to grab my audiences attention. Other things I like about this magazine is that the layout has been structured so that every story has it's own individuality so the magazine itself doesn't come across as boring and repetetive throughout. I also like how the highlighted circle on the left which says "More! fashion for less money", this shows that the magazine has used their title More! to commercial itself in the stories and features they have. It also shows the audience that the latest fashion is afforable and shows images of clothes, shoes and accessories so that the audience can relate to it as they may like what they see and be brought to buying the magazine.
The cover model used in the magazine appears to be a photograph taken by papparazi of Cheryl Cole, where she looks happy as she is smiling. The headline used is "CELEB EXCLUSIVES" which gives off that the magazine has important and interesting news about Cheryl, which we would want to know.
This is the front cover of one of the biggest music magazines in the UK, Q. I don't really read this magazine but I find the style of it unique and attractive. The main colour scheme we see is the block colours which are red, white and black, which contrast well with one another and can be ideal for the audience which is aimed at both male and female aged 16-25.
There is also I soft, light grey background which I think goes extremly well with the main colour scheme and gives it elegence and makes the magazine look tidy and proffesional which will appeal to the audience. This is something I would like to percieve into creating my magazine as my audience will be for both genders as well.
The cover model used on the front cover is of popular music artist, Lady Gaga, who is known for her unique style and having an extremely successful music career. We see her uniqueness by the way the photo used has been taken. It shows that this photo has been taken proffesionally, which is common on most front covers of Q magazine, as she has been told to pose in a certain way in a full length shot, which shows off what she is wearing. Although the image may seem 'revealing', with Lady Gaga being extremly well known to the public, they would understand that this is what she would usually do/wear/act and be familiar to her style. Also parts of her name is big capital letters have been hidden by the photograph of her, but it doesn't really affect the way the audience will see it, as they will more than likely know who it is without her name being there as she is a global popstar and is recognised by people all over the world.
I also like how a range of fonts have been used for each sub heading on the right hand side of the front cover, "JIMI HENDRIX" and "VAMPIRE WEEKEND" have boths been printed in a big, bold font which could represent that they are big, mighty artists and are well known to the audience. This is also another technique that I would like to use when creating magazine so that my audience can recognise and notice music artist that are appearing in my magazine.
This magazine cover is from rock music magazine KERRANG! I see this magazine as very chaotic from the cracked effect which is used in the font thtoughout the front cover. This relates more to the audience as they are interested in rock music, which is loud, destructive and lively. KERRANG! usually change their colour scheme in every issue but the colours always achieve to make their magazine live up to it's rock-like theme. One of the main reasons I like this front cover is that band Blink 182 is the main headline, and i enjoy listening to their music. Although it might be slightly biased, it would also attract other people who like the band as well and will be more likely to buy it. As well as More!, KERRANG! have also used a highlighter circle which are used to make stories or features that readers would be interested in more noticeable. This is something I would like to put in my front cover for the same reason as why other magazines would do it, to highlight interesting parts inside the magazine.
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