Magazine Analysis:
This magazine is
called vogue, which means 'prevailing fashion' and this indicates that the
content of this magazine will be based on or around fashion and beauty. By
analyzing this you begin to think that the audience being targeted with this
magazine is women, young women into fashion. This particular issue was aimed at
a women's shape and figure, but not only the skinny women (sizes 0-12) but they
say 'size 0 to size 20' so here it widens the audience of customers able to
read and relate to the magazine. The audience doesn't feel subdued to looking a
certain way or being a certain size, it makes them feel better about
themselves. Vogue have used Beyonce Knowles as the model/celeb on the front
page of this magazine as she is most known for her curvaceous figure aside of
her singing talent, she is idolized by many for this. So using her as the cover
model is giving the reader an imagery of any size is beautiful. On the page,
the text is in a blue colour to match the dress which Beyonce is wearing; also
the text appears in white. Both of these colours bring across a rejuvenated,
fresh new feel of women suddenly realising that their size is perfect and needs
no changing. Although one of the cover lines does say ‘Work It!’ which
contradicts the idea of not having to change your figure, making you work out
to achieve the body of your dreams, but the other cover lines are encouraging
you to dress to fit your body. The strap line going across the top left hand
corner of the page says ‘NIP/TUCK’ and ‘Designing a perfect body’ these two
headings could not be more different from ‘real women have curves’. The
headings that appear in the strap line bring insecurities to women not
comfortable within themselves, but this strap line is small compared to the
other text on the page. This could be meant to be used as a last resort,
getting the reader to read into having the right fashion for their body before
taking extreme decisions. The background colour of the strap line is gold, which
promotes the idea of expense and riches meaning that only the really rich or people
of celebrity/famous status can achieve this ‘perfect body’ by getting surgery.
Vogue follows a number of conventions needed to design a successful magazine;
one of these is the masthead in a serif font (serifs added) at the top of the
front cover. This masthead is also known as the title of the magazine, commonly
the title appears in a big, bold font along the top of the page, this signals
to the reader what it is they’re reading. Also another convention of a magazine
is the use of a left third which is where the information about the content of
the magazine appears on the left hand side of the page, this keeps everything
neat and tidy. It also attracts the readers’ eye to read the main stories/articles
from within the magazine; it can be used as a selling point to persuade people
into wanting to have the magazine. Sans serif font (doesn’t have serifs) is
used on this magazine cover for the majority of the text this gives the
magazine a modern feel with the standard bold, typed text. This text is very
clear to read.
I think this magazine front cover has been
thoroughly thought through, and placement of text and images has been decided
well to not make it look too full or jam packed full of information. It only
uses relevant information to be used to entice the reader and all of the
information relate to one topic, ‘Shape Issues’ which happens to be the name of
this particular issue.
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