Analysis of professional front cover

Title doesn’t take over the main image.

Eye contact towards the audience, shows that the magazine is speaking to them.

Buzz words, shows the audience that they are getting more for their money.

Writing is bold as it is the main story, but it doesn’t take the full page.

Cover lines are situated to the side of the page, so that the main image is not dominated.

Eye contact, so that the audience think that the magazine is speaking to them.

Smaller stories that aren't as important as the main story are put at the side of the page.

Bold, clear title used to catch the audiences attention, and its placed over the main images face, but not enough so that the attention is drawn off the main image.

Buzzwords make the audience think that they are getting much more for their money.

Price and date made clear, so the audience know the price and date of the magazine.

Buzzwords makes the audience think that they are getting more for their money. Large, bold title

covers the top of the magazine, but still doesn’t take the attention away from the main image.

Even though that there is glasses on the persons eyes, it still seems to us that the image would be looking directly at us if they didn't have any glasses on, also the look of the person in the picture, this could show what type of genre the magazine is, by the body language.

Cover lines situated on either side of the image, so they don’t dominate and take the attention off the main image.