This document deconstructs and analyzes several magazine covers and contents pages. It discusses design elements like layout, images, colors, fonts and how they are used to attract different target audiences and convey messages. Specific magazines analyzed include Billboard, Top of the Pops, NME and Vibe. Key aspects summarized include the intended audiences, visual focal points, uses of images and text placement.

1. Comparing and deconstructing two magazine covers. These magazines are very different. The top of the pops magazine is aimed at a young target audience as the masthead is pink and sparkly. The fonts are very bold, bright and easy to read. Also all the cover lines are all about celebrity's lives and comparing boys and shocking stories. The Billboard magazine is aimed at a much more sophisticated audience and the cover lines are neatly lined up with each other. There is less going on and the text and font has a simple theme which makes it easier to look at than the magazine on the left. The masthead is covered up on Billboard magazine, i think this could partly be because its simple and doesn't seem very well thought about, therefore putting the model over part of it, makes it more interesting. Jessie J on the front cover of Top of the pops does not look like she has had a shoot for the magazine, instead it looks like a shot from the paparazzi and un planned. Whereas the billboard magazine is very organized and looks like the magazine had an organized shoot specially for that front cover with Miley Cyrus. The top corner of the magazine Billboard, has a small section of information highlighted in yellow, which contrasts to the background and is therefore eye catching. Also because of the placing, the audience would see this piece of information on a magazine rack if the rest of the magazine has been covered. It is there to lure the audience in to pick up the magazine and buy it. The top of the pops magazine also has a banner across the top, which includes the logo and a selling line, but it blends in with the rest of the magazine and does not stand out as much because there are many other things to look at if someone picks that magazine up. Overall i think the Billboard magazine has been thought about much more and had more time taken to plan it and is better for its target audience.