Research and Planning

Research and Planning for Print

This is an example of an existing magazine front cover.
This is a simple contents page which has used one big image which is centred and edited. Again, the writer has stuck to three main colours being white,grey and black making them more dark colours which all contrast.
The heading is split up on different lines such as 'CO' 'NTEN' 'TS' making it stand out more than the rest of the text as there is a dramtic change in font size. There is a difference between fonts are there is 3 minimum different texts used throughout the contents page, these are used for the heading of the page, the subheadings and the actual text about whats contained in each page. This page is simple using one image and small text with not much which is effective as most people prefer to read a bit of text and look at the images rather than read loads of text that waffles.

This is a magazine for a young audience such as girl teens, this is shown with the glittery pink title and the themes colours are pink red and purple which tend to target female readers. The writer also uses lines such as 'Is she stealing your crush?' and 'Who's the fittest Justin & Harry battle it out'. These can enagge female readers especially younger ones to read as they  have their 'celebrity' crushes. They use a number of shapes such as circles, squares and arrows to make the page more creative and interesting to appeal to the target audience. The language is very simple using words such as 'hottest; and 'spooky' so that its readable for the target audience.









This is one fo the worst selling issues of the vogue magazine. The cover photo is very textual and unbalanced. There is the use of a pastel green and a shocking pink and baby pink, this looks more childlike considering its an adult magazine. The central picture of lady gaga is very revealing making it inappropriate for young readers contrasting with the colours and layout of the text. There is a lot of text on the front which could be offputting to the audience and everything is in block capitals which makes the sentences harder to read.It's not proper english to write in full block captials throughout every piece of text as it's hard for the reader to consontrate. The picture of Lady Ga Ga doesn't look appealing and looksa rather scary so again couldnt engage or appeal to te readers. Also, there is hardly any spare space meaning there is too much text which can quite frequently be seen as 'boring'.