Magazine Cover Design!

By Dezi Yianni
Top left third
Price

Date & Area

Feature Headline

Main Feature

Polaroid's

Barcode Cover line

Top Left Third- This area is visible when the magazine is part of a stack on the bookstore shelf.

Date & Area- Up to date; different parts of the country have different TV schedules.

Feature Headline- The largest text for the main story, designed to grab the target audience’s interest.

Main Feature- A medium close-up of a well-known celebrity used to attract the target audience through
their knowledge of a popular programme: often a soap opera.

Polaroid's- These pictures look like they have been printed and stuck on afterwards, like a pug. The way
the figures seem to burst out of the frame of the picture is eye-catching and unusual.

Bar Code- This is an ugly but necessary part of a cover and is often disguised or creatively in an unusual
way.

Price- In this case, a key feature or USP of the magazine with the word ‘only’ acting as a puff.

Cover Line- Leads us into a story that will be developed inside the magazine.
Investigating an Existing Print Media Product.

My Chosen product is:- OK!

The methods of research I have chosen to use are secondary.
How would knowledge about the target audience help the makers of this media
product? How they represent the cover or by showing it off.
Target Audience Profile
Age: 15+
Gender: Female
Culture: English
Social Class:
 Price

Cover line
Title

Polaroid

Date & Area Main Feature

Feature Headline

Barcode
 Polaroid

Title

Feature Headline

Cover line

Main Feature

Date & Area

Barcode