Girls Magazine Analysis

In order for me to create my own girls magazine cover, I needed to home in on the different music magazines for teenage girls existing right now! By doing this research, I was able to see how different shapes, punctuation and camera angles could make a really big difference to the response the magazine recieves!


The three covers I chose were 2 from 'smash hits!' magazine and one from 'top of the pops.' These are the ones I chose because they all have different colour themes, picture types, shapes, layouts and unique selling points.

I analysed each cover in detail in my book, and discussed what made each cover sell to it's audience.

The first magazine cover ('smash hits!') has a photograph taken from a high angle which makes Britney look vulnerable, and in turn young like her target audience.
In the second cover, (Britney is on it again) she is looking straight on into the camera, but has her arms touching her hair and at the same time covering her ears. This seems to be saying that she isn't listening to the people around her giving advice when she's 'Partying till dawn, pub crawls and pampering' and being told to 'BEHAVE.'
The third cover is also one from 'smash hits!' but it doesn't have a picture of Britney on it this time! It has two separate pictures edited onto one page, which is very unusual. They are aggressive photographs of Pink! and Avril Lavigne. Even though they look fairly rebellious on the cover, the tag line 'Who'll win the battle of the rock chicks?' makes it more innocent and therefore reaches it's target audience of teenage girls due to the girly language.