Analysing Magazine Front Covers Learning Intention: To highlight the key conventions of magazine front covers. To apply the technical terms to the analysis.

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Analysing Magazine Front Covers Learning Intention: To highlight the key conventions of magazine front covers. To apply the technical terms to the analysis of magazine front covers.

Going into Detail When writing about magazine front covers you need to answer lots of questions. These are likely to begin with ‘what’ and ‘why’. There are some generic questions you will need to consider for any front cover which will help you to get started … for example … – What can I see? What can I denote? – Why have they included this? – What does this suggest/imply/connote? – Why would this appeal to the target audience?

‘Red’ What can you see on this front cover? List all of the things that you can see, using your previously learned key words to support your observations.

Large central image – mid-long shot. She has a faint smile and is wearing subtle and expensive looking jewellery. Cream dress sleeves are falling down, particularly on her left, so the dress is quite revealing. Masthead ‘Red’ in white on red background. Looks handwritten. Anchorage text – instruction to readers about ‘what to wear’. Sell lines – focus on beauty, budget and fashion Colour scheme – red, green, cream and gold. Direct address – Jools Oliver looks directly at the camera; almost making eye contact with the reader. Layout – Formal and organised; straight lines … could suggest an older target audience. Strapline – reinforces the topics covered by the magazine; aimed at women.

Sample Response There is a photograph of Juliette ‘Jools’ Oliver, wife of TV chef Jamie. It is a medium-long shot. She is looking at the camera, giving direct address. She has a faint smile and is wearing what looks like an expensive necklace and bracelet. She is wearing a cream dress and the sleeves are falling down, particularly on her left shoulder, so the dress is quite revealing. The masthead for the magazine says the name ‘Red’ in white letters on a red background. The font is serif which means that it is quite fancy writing but it appears to have been handwritten. These letters and the colours will be the same every month. There is a photograph of Juliette ‘Jools’ Oliver, wife of TV chef Jamie. It is a medium-long shot. She is looking at the camera, giving direct address. She has a faint smile and is wearing what looks like an expensive necklace and bracelet. She is wearing a cream dress and the sleeves are falling down, particularly on her left shoulder, so the dress is quite revealing. The masthead for the magazine says the name ‘Red’ in white letters on a red background. The font is serif which means that it is quite fancy writing but it appears to have been handwritten. These letters and the colours will be the same every month. This response purely focus’ on the image and the masthead, although there is far more the student could have commented on in this response. The detail and length is insufficient; to have improved this, they could have commented in more detail on the ‘why’. Why has Jules Oliver been chosen for the front cover? Why has the publisher used red and white for the masthead and for some of the sell lines? Can you think of any more ‘why’ questions that would help this student to improve their response?

There is a photograph of Juliette ‘Jools’ Oliver, wife of TV chef Jamie. It is a medium-long shot. She is looking at the camera, giving direct address. She has a faint smile and is wearing what looks like an expensive necklace and bracelet. She is wearing a cream dress and the sleeves are falling down, particularly on her left shoulder, so the dress is quite revealing. The masthead for the magazine says the name ‘Red’ in white letters on a red background. The font is serif which means that it is quite fancy writing but it appears to have been handwritten. These letters and the colours will be the same every month. There is a photograph of Juliette ‘Jools’ Oliver, wife of TV chef Jamie. It is a medium-long shot. She is looking at the camera, giving direct address. She has a faint smile and is wearing what looks like an expensive necklace and bracelet. She is wearing a cream dress and the sleeves are falling down, particularly on her left shoulder, so the dress is quite revealing. The masthead for the magazine says the name ‘Red’ in white letters on a red background. The font is serif which means that it is quite fancy writing but it appears to have been handwritten. These letters and the colours will be the same every month. Why has Jules Oliver been chosen for the front cover? Why has the publisher used red and white for the masthead and some of the sell lines? Why is she looking at the camera and leaning towards the camera with a faint smile? Why did the publisher choose to dress her in cream and gold? Why has the sleeve of her dress been positioned this way? What message are they trying to give the audience? By extending the analysis and answering the ‘why’ questions you would extend and secure this response! From this point on it is all about the detail of the analysis, not the quantity!

How does the magazine front cover appeal to the target audience? Using the information you have collated and the ‘why’ questions you have written, redraft and improve the students’ response to analyse the how the front cover appeals to the target audience. Use the ‘what’ comments that the student has noted, but extend the response with your opinions about ‘why’.

Find a music magazine front cover with a large central image on it 1.Annotate the key conventions used (use your terminology dictionary to help you). 2.Consider and annotate the mise-en-scene of the front cover: Settings & Props Costume, Hair & Make Up Facial Expressions & Body Language Lighting & Colour Positioning of characters/objects within the frame 3.What camera angles have been used? Why? 4.How is a particular social group represented to the audience? 5.Refer to your uses and gratifications: why would an audience read this?