In media studies this week we learnt how to deconstruct magazine covers in order to see how they appeal to an audience.

We learnt that there are many features on a magazine cover that help to bring it together, these are the technical conventions:

• Main cover stars
• Plug
• Main cover line
• Inset images
• Cover lines
• Price
• Bar code
• Captions
• Master head
• pug

On the magazine we deconstructed the front cover featured many of the typical conventions however I think that it, the master head isn’t big enough and so doesn’t stand out from other main cover lines, I also feel that the plug isn’t large enough and doesn’t stand out from the master head. I think that the fact that the image of the main cover stars is in black and white helps to add some contrast the brighter colours such as orange and red. I think that this exercise will help me to know how to design my magazine. that will draw the audience attention