Magazine Cover Research

This magazine features a lot of white space in the background. I feel like this makes it seem a lot less creative, just a simple coloured background would have made the magazine that little bit more aesthetically pleasing, this is why I want to have a coloured background as opposed to white as it looks boring and like there was no effort put in to creating it.

The articles are mainly in the top half of the cover and although this makes the top half look better and lessens the white space, it makes the bottom look even more bare and it looks odd with one end cluttered and one barely covered. After seeing this I will make sure my articles are more spread out over the page.

The masthead is the only large serif font as the rest are sanserif and smaller. The main feature title is Sarah Chang and this is very bold and bright to show it is more important than the rest. I will use this in my magazine by making my main story title slightly larger on my cover page, but not too much bigger as it looks strange.

I feel like the colours used are a bit of a mess, the white and red work together, and the colour of the models dress looks more vibrant against the plain white background but all together the colours don't match and along with the wood colour of her violin, it looks unorganised and careless. For my magazine I will endure all the colours work together much better than this.

I feel like this magazine really adapts the theory of 'the male gaze' by Laura Mulvey as the model is using a seductive look into the camera as well as looking feminine and pretty to attract the male audience.