Magazine Cover - Vogue

The masthead is big and bold which makes it the first thing you see when the target audience looks at the magazine. This is effective as this is the main aim for the masthead to do, attract the audiences attention. The colour gold creates a feminine and expensive look which automatically attracts the female audience.

The main image on the from cover is Rihanna who is a famous music artist and so it is effective to have her on the front cover of the magazine as it would make the reader interested in the story about her that is inside. This is important for the creator of the magazine to decide who to place on the magazine cover as you want to attract the right audience to make it more attracting for the audience to read.

The colours that are used in the background are soft and gentle colours which lets the colour lines suggest that they are going to stand out more as they are in black and white writing. The front cover gives of an exotic due to the way Rihanna is dressed and the background in with it together suggests that she is somewhere hot and sunny.

There are only a handful of basic colours used in the background such as brown, red, white, blue and black. This is done to create the idea of a simple magazine but also keep it eye catching but also intriguing for the target audience. the colour of the masthead matches Rihanna as it is similar to her skin tone but also to what she is wearing. This may be done to keep the magazine simplistic for the reader to understand. 

The barcode is positioned at the bottom right of the page, however, usually it is in a rectangular shape but this one is in a square. This suggests that it is different and unique to other magazines and wants to stand out from other magazines. Although this is not something the reader would instantly recognise, it still give the magazine different compared to other magazine front covers. This also has the price of the magazine with the barcode which helps to keep the audience informed about how much the magazine is going to cost them. 

Each cover line and the main sections of the words on the front cover of the magazine are in capital letters and the rest are in lower case letters which makes it stand out and be eye catching for the target audience whilst still keep them intrigued for what the stories are about.