Front Cover Analysis 2

5 'Blender' magazine – 'Katy Perry’

The music magazine ‘Blender’, much like ‘Q’, uses a range of artists on the front cover of the magazine to advertise to a large audience. However the techno themed fonts in black and bright pink advertise to a younger audience than ‘Q’. The audience get a feel for the magazine by the simple, clear layout and the use of young pop artist, Katy Perry’ . Like Blender, I want to use a simple layout with a three tone colour scheme of bright, popping colours so that I can aim for a younger audience of around 15-25. With the clear layout we see many artists featured and get the feeling of a general, chart covering music magazine. The top banner fills up empty space and adds a bonus for the reader – freebies. This makes the reader attracted to the magazine and gives them a curiousness to see what new tracks thy will be receiving. The title and small intro for the Katy Perry adds courageousness and again appeals to the target audience – ‘Kiss’n’ Tell With Pop’s Bi-Curious Babe’. The slang words ‘Babe’ is relevant to a younger generation and the phrase ‘Kiss ‘n’ Tell’ adds fun and a bit of excitement to the piece. The phrase ‘Pop’s Bi-Curious’ creates a pun on the singers debut song ‘I Kissed A Girl’ and ‘Pop’ refers to Perry’s music genre and brands the magazine outright as a pop magazine. We see this openness of sexuality again with the feature story on T-Pain, claiming that ‘My wife and I download porn together.’ This perhaps might not be appropriate for an older generation however, this openness and casual tendency to come outright with phrases others might find offensive, could attract a certain type of audience. This magazine makes it particularly clear what type of readers it aims to attract, and I hope to achieve the same thing, primarily focusing of on bright colour and light, serif fonts. However the feature stories are also important and I will take on board that features should have relevance to my reader’s lives.