Rita Ora is featured prominently on the front cover of a magazine. She is smiling and looking confidently at the camera. Her reserved outfit suggests innocence and appeals to a younger demographic. Bright colors and Rita's lipstick, nails, and the main headline "all eyes on Rita" are intended to catch readers' attention.
The contents page features the girl group The Saturdays wearing bright, youthful colors. Pink and black are used throughout, appealing to readers while maintaining an edgy style. Important sections are written in bold to guide readers' attention.
A double-page spread focuses on a close-up shot of Rita Ora's face. Minimal text directs attention to her mysterious
2. Front
cover
Main image
The main image is a medium shot, the masthead is based is just
above the image.
Rita Ora has a smile on her face and looking directly at the camera,
this indicates that the magazine shows features fun and happy
stories. The fact that she is looking directly to the camera implies
she has confidence and doesn’t feel ashamed of the way she looks.
Her costume is quite reserved as you can’t see much of her body,
this makes it more appropriate for a younger age range. It gives her
a sense of innocence and the common American style of ‘pop
princesses’. This gives the magazine a target audience of a younger
age range, mainly female. Her body language is her with her hand
on her chin, smiling directly at the camera, this suggests her
innocent, young and stylish look.
It looks as if the saturation has been increased, meaning the colours
stand out more, this could be to catch the readers attention. There
is a bright theme throughout the front cover. The image links with
the main sell line ‘all eyes on Rita’ due to the fact her bright lipstick,
teeth and nails are bright it draws the readers eyes to this. Both her
lips and nails are a bright red colour red can insinuate love, this links
with her music as it has a theme of love, for example songs such as
‘I will never let you down’ and ‘body on me’.
Mast head
The mast head is a recognizable font
and colour, in which people will know
that it is this particular magazine from
the well known mast head. The two
words ‘top’ and ‘pop’ are wrote in larger
and bolder font, so this will stand out to
readers and will know the what the
magazine contains, updates on pop
music. The font is in white in which
makes it recognizable due to the orange
background. There are small stars
dotted around the mast head, shapes
such as stars give the impression of it’s
for a younger age range, in addition to
this, they are white and white can
signify innocence and purity, in which
younger people are. Just above the mast
head is the ‘BBC’ logo, this advertises
BBC in a way that you will find contents
of the magazine on BBC.
Main sell line
The main sell line is based just underneath Rita’s face. This is
convenient as the sell line says ‘all eyes on Rita’, this is easy
for the readers to do so as her face is directly above the main
sell line. It says ‘talking bargains, boys and clumpy mascara’
this signifies that the target demographic is definitely for girls
as it’s topics in which they can relate to. If people weren’t
aware of the name of Rita then they are straight away alerted
as the main sell line shows her identity. The yellow
background helps the writing on the main sell line to stand
out as there is quite a lot, if there was not a bright
background people may be put off reading it due to the large
amount of writing on such a small template.
Sell line
Different fonts are used on the different sell lines
to help highlight the subjects. All of them are very
bold, you can straight away tell the difference
between the sell lines and the normal text, it is
beneficial to the reader as you can straight away
find out what you need to be looking for without
reading all of the small writing. It is well
structured.
3. Contents
page
Main image
The main image is a medium shot, the masthead is based
is just above the image.
It is a girl band in which implies that the target audience is
mainly aimed at younger teenagers, as all of the girls are
non revealing clothes and are kept quite reserved. It gives
the magazine the common sense of the theme being
based on ‘pop princesses’. Despite the reserved costumes
and the lack of focus on their bodies, their body language
suggest differently. For example the main character in the
middle has her tongue stuck out, not looking very lady like.
There body language insinuates that they look quite
sexualized as they all look quite inviting, when looking at
the picture. Celebrities outfits are usually linked to what
type of music they sing, here, The Saturdays are all
wearing bright colours which gives us positive energy.
Most of their songs give us this feeling also, for example
‘Higher’ and ‘Disco love’.Colour theme
The colour theme used is pink and black. The colours
appeal to the target audience as they are very girly and
fun, which follows the representation of girls. The black is
uncommon for a teenagers magazine however it creates
an edgy look for the Saturdays in which teenagers may
aspire to.
Contents
The contents has been layed out in an order and
colour coded, in which means if you are looking for
‘gossip’ about the music artists in the magazine
then they are all in the same place, same as the
upcoming events of music. This is convenient for
readers as it saves them from looking at
information they aren’t interested in. Throughout
the contents page there is a variation of text
styles. The most important parts of the magazine
are wrote larger and bolder, this is beneficial to the
target demographic as they are of a younger age
range and if they instantly see a subheading in
bold writing saying “I was in pieces leaving
Marvin” they will instantly want to be in with the
gossip and have an urge to turn the page over.
4. Double pageMain image
The main image is merged in with the
masthead. There is a minimal amount of
text on the double page in which shows
that the main focus is on the main image.
The lighting is shining on Rita Ora’s face,
giving the full attention on her face, parts
of her body have been shaded or covered
away, for example the top of her
forehead, this makes her look more
mysterious. She is looking directly at the
camera, this suggests that she has
confidence. Her clothing and hair can
instantly indicate what type of character
she is, here her body is quite revealed so
toy could say that she is coming across
quite sexualized. This can result in the
target audience being for girls as this is
what they aspire to be, or it could be for
men as this is what they admire. Her facial
expression gives her the look of looking
quite upset and down as she looks as if
she is in deep thought. Her black clothing
gives the connotation of looking quite
mysterious.
Mast head
The masthead is in bright and bold red letters. Straight away red suggests
danger, however you could say red also represents love. This gives Rita an
unknown identity as she could be wanting love or she could be feeling
reckless. Our first impression when looking at the double page spread is
the name, reader’s don’t have to read on to see what the two pages are
about, they are informed straight away. It looks as if it has been painted
on a wall, this gives Rita a reckless look, it is as if she has broken the rules
and done this herself, perhaps she has gone off the rails and started to
break rules.
Subheadings
The red font links in with the red colour scheme, giving Rita the unknown
identity of whether she is loving of edgy/dangerous. Different fonts are used
on the different sell lines to help highlight the subjects. All of them are very
bold, you can straight away tell the difference between the sell lines and the
normal text, it is beneficial to the reader as you can straight away find out
what you need to be looking for without reading all of the small writing. It is
well structured. However the red font is the questions in which Rita is being
asked, this prevents confusion with the readers as they will know exactly the
difference between the questions and the answers.
