My Magazine Task, how i came to the final product.

• Deconstructed it.

i cut and folded many gossip magazines that i had found (plus the occasional Music and 'Pigeon Shooting' magazine from my dad) and found the main elements of the magazine cover, which i later used to created the magazine template (see a few posts back) which most magazine covers seem to follow. i focussed mainly on a copy of Cosmopolitan.

• Edited it.

i tried adding different images onto different magazines, trading round titles are faces and it completely changed the appearance of the magazine, the characteristics and what you'd expect to find content-wise.

• Playing with Size.

i made a photocopy of "company magazine" and then made it bigger, i found that once it was bigger i realised just how much content there was simply on the cover, and i also realised the range of fonts used for each heading and the alinement of the text, it all varied depending on the image displayed and the importance of each article or feature.

i then made a small version of the same cover, i found that because of the amount of content on the cover, when made small it was very difficult to identify the content minus the person onto the cover and the magazine title, although this way it was easier to identify the hierarchy of each article and statement, depending on how well i could read the text, i could see which parts were more important.

What can i tell about the age/gender/class/race of different people shown on the cover.

The front cover has Lady Gaga, she is a white american popular for her unique outfits and dancer's physique, she is standing provocatively and her article is about caring more for her career than pursuing a love life. This suggests that she is career driven and the women who read the magazine are independent, free-thinking women, despite the fact that from looking at the magazine content i would expect perfectly ordinary women to read it.