Magazine covers

Magazine covers

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  Magazine covers
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  Purpose of afront cover • Purpose of a front cover is to let the audience know what the magazine is about and telling the audience who the magazine has been aimed at. The audience may not pick it up in the first place unless the front cover is well designed. The reader will spend a fraction of time reading the front cover of the magazine.
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  The cover model • Ifyou have a music magazine you put a singer as the main image. E.g. rock star posing for a music magazine. • Consider the implications of this: what difference might it make to the magazine’s selling power. Anchorage This is a term how the images are referred. In magazines the image will be anchorage by captions. Secondary images • They are often used instead of text. This use because for audience who don’t like reading much. Coverline sUsing wards to tell you about the place or the magazine. Mode of address When the image is looking at the audience. Some magazine will use a direct mode of address, communicating with individual readers. Front Front covers will display a variety of front choices, usually adapted to infer meaning to the text they’re displaying.
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  Front Front covers willdisplay a variety of front choices, usually adapted to infer meaning to the text they’re displaying.
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  Masthead Main image Anchorage text. Sub heading She's overthe title of the magazine so it tells the audience that she's the main selling point.
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  Main image Anchorage text. Masthead Skyline Theguy from the image looks relax and tie undone so looks sexy. Wearing a suit so he’s coming out of a party.
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  masthead Main image Anchorage text. Skyline The imagelooks like they want to tell a secret. The word relives is linked to the image. Got a football in his hand so the secret could be about football.