I have analyzed two music magazine covers to further highlight that different audiences will be drawn to different types of covers.

A professionally made cover of a magazine needs to be effective towards the set demographic and be punctual so that it can be as successful as possible in the media. To reach out to the correct group of the audience the colours used in the cover need to look appealing to that audience, for young teenagers bright exciting colours such as red and yellow might be used to catch the eyes of that audience, whereas for an older mature audience calm colours like cream and black may be used to emit a calmer more collected feeling on the cover.

The typeface of the cover will always be bold and big to further gain audience attention, normally the masthead will be the boldest line as the audience need to know where this magazine has come from and who the producers of it are. The plug will promote the magazine emphasizing the joy the audience can get from purchasing it, the pug will also do this by telling the audience what is in the magazine and what information they will be able to get.

The mise en scene for the cover star is very important as they speak to the audience the magazine is aimed at, it has to be specific to the demographic and the psychographic of that genre. The target audience are those groups who are most likely to be interested in a specific genre and watch certain shows, the magazine then has to focus on pleasing that group of people to help the product to be as successful as possible.

The design and colours in that cover will convey the interests of that specific group, it will tell the audience whether or not they fit into that category, each different magazine cover reaches out to different members of the public expressing feeling that only certain psychographics will be interested in.