2. Purpose of a front cover
• Purpose of a front cover is to let the audience know what the
magazine is about and telling the audience who the magazine has
been aimed at. The audience may not pick it up in the first place
unless the front cover is well designed. The reader will spend a
fraction of time reading the front cover of the magazine.
3. The cover
model
• If you have a music magazine you put a
singer as the main image. E.g. rock star
posing for a music magazine.
• Consider the implications of this: what
difference might it make to the
magazine’s selling power.
Anchorage
This is a term how the images
are referred. In magazines the
image will be anchorage by
captions.
Secondary images
• They are often used instead
of text. This use because for
audience who don’t like
reading much.
Coverline
sUsing wards to tell you about
the place or the magazine.
Mode of address
When the image is looking
at the audience. Some
magazine will use a direct
mode of address,
communicating with
individual readers.
Front
Front covers will display
a variety of front
choices, usually
adapted to infer
meaning to the text
they’re displaying.
4. Front
Front covers will display
a variety of front
choices, usually
adapted to infer
meaning to the text
they’re displaying.
