College Magazine Analysis Two

Only one main image is used for the front cover of this teen magazine taking up the full page. The magazine has  a text color scheme which is using the colors red, white and yellow. The background image color used is blue. The colors are conventional of a teenage magazine as they are bright and stand out to young adults and teenagers to attract them to the magazine. The only dark colors used are within the main background image of the girl. The red, yellow and white work really well together making the text extremely visible and clear to read. The text shown is to encourage teens and college students to be attracted to the magazine because of the simple layout of the magazine front cover and the bold color scheme used. The cover lines give a snippet of each story that is featured inside of the magazine persuading teenagers to want to read more. The magazine includes main features such as: the masthead, main cover line, cover lines, a bar code, the date, the price, the issue, advertising and pull quotes. All of these features work together to make the magazine attract the right audience and be successful. The masthead is the name of the magazine and this is the boldest piece of text on the magazine front cover to make it recognizable. The main cover line and main image usually relate to each other and the cover line tells the story of the image. All of the elements included are conventional of a magazine front cover and therefore help to sell the magazine and make it appealing to audiences. Teen People was a magazine that was introduced in 1998 as part of People magazine. In 2006 the company announced that it was going to shut down the production of Teen People and the last issue was released in September 2006. The magazine  the company belonged to was Time Warner and was published in the USA. The magazine mainly featured teen celebrity idols as well a t he latest gossip. It also included competitions and prizes to be won as well as fashion and beauty advice for both male and female teens. The magazine was portrayed in a mainly celebrity limelight which could be seen as negative having a bad example of teenagers. This is because if girl and boys see a celebrity in a magazine they idolize them and want to be like them and look like them which is impossible and the celebrity influence on teenagers can get out of hand. The audience that this magazine was aimed at is teenagers 13 to 19 both male and female but it could be argued mainly female. The magazine attracts teenagers because the magazine includes everything a teenager could possibly want to find out about not all having positive effects on the younger generation of people at that time.