The front cover I analysed was from a magazine called 'Your Surrey Magazine'.
1. The image on the front cover has been chosen to represent what the genre of the magazine is and link it to the text. The image is a long direct shot, this is because they want to focus on the dress, which is the major factor for women in weddings, as well as to show the reader, the model is happy and confident, like every woman on their wedding day.
2. The genre of the magazine is wedding and marriage; I know this because the image shows a woman in a wedding dress, which is the first feature you think about when it comes to weddings. Furthermore, the magazine links the image with the text and refers to weddings in the text 'Tie the knot'.
3. I was unable to find out the readership statistics for this magazine, so I do not know any scale of the number of readers it has.
4. The model in the picture is wearing a wedding dress, as well as other wedding props such as, shoes, veil and a wedding ring; they've done this in order to appeal to their target demographics, including women and couples getting married. The image shows a beautiful model who is happy and confident, they've done this to show how a woman feels and should feel on their wedding day, so they've presented the model this way to show weddings as happy and beautiful; the best day of a woman's life. In addition, you can see they are trying to target women, as the colour scheme used is pink and white, this shows femininity and white to show tradition.
5. The shot shows a the woman in a wedding dress, sitting on a white bench in a garden; this conveys a message of how they think wedding's should be and how people want them to be, happy, confident and perfect. By showing the model in a white wedding dress suggests tradition; tradition is referred to most with weddings, especially the big white dress. Using the white bench in the image as well, suggests the theme of tradition; the colour white in wedding suggests beauty and purity in weddings and marriage, tradition is always that a woman wears a white dress. However, they choose not to place the woman in front of a church to match the traditional theme, this is because it will cause restrictions between ethnicities in wedding magazines, they don't want to convey the wrong message between marriage and ethnicity.
6. They have mainly used pink and white as the colours over the front cover as it matches the theme and also reaches the target demographics. The colour pink is used to target the demographics of women, women are targeted if they're getting married or enjoy weddings.Pink targets women as it generally a feminine colour and is attractive. The other main colour used is white, this is to represent tradition, purity and beauty in weddings, it also targets women as its a simple colour and is a major aspect with weddings.
7.Lighting is used in the image naturally, they have an outside image on a sunny day, therefore natural lighting is made; this creates a positive effect as it attracts people and shows the ideas of weddings being happy, this is pathetic fallacy, as the weather is showing how the model is feeling. The lighting also causes a effect over the model, as it highlights her face to show her emotions to be happy and confident, resulting in positive effects being created of the concept of weddings.
Excellent effort in your homework activity Ellie.
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Q- How has your research/ analysis directed your planning of your own magazine?
Miss Beckles
My research and analysis has helped with my planning of my own magazine, as I've learnt ways of using images to target audiences and grab people's attention, such as the use of direct images. It has also directed my planning by learning the way I should layout my magazine and the language used.
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