For a front cover of a magazine it is crucial that you include all the elements that make up a good front cover, it also has to portray the message your trying to get across, for example if your magazines for a clothing line you would have to include the brand name and logo, it’ll also have to have a title that relates to your idea.

The elements that make up your magazine cover are: colour, positioning and font. The layout of the cover should be based on hierarchy of image, this is where you divide up your page into 3 sections from left to right and have a triangular shape in the center, this helps to place your images in the correct place.

The masthead for the front cover has to relate to the magazines purpose, so if i was to design one based of Gucci I would make the masthead rather sophisticated as Gucci is a developed and up street brand.

Blumler and Katz theory was that people look at media and use it to meet there own personal uses and gratifications, such as: Entertainment/Diversion, social interaction, personal identity and Information/surveillance. Therefore when you look at my slide what makes up my personal identity would be: Chelsea, clothing brands and sites, whereas my social interaction include media such as: snap chat, Rick n Morty and twitter.

To maximize my success in creating an entertaining yet socially interactive magazine cover I will have to follow Blumler and Katz theory to develop a prosperous magazine cover. overall my media is going to include the 4 main sections to gain a good target audience.