Research Into Existing Magazines

The second magazine cover I have chosen to research into is called People, the film that this magazine illustrates will be New Moon.

The target audience for New Moon would be aimed towards girls. This is becuase it is based on a love story between a man and women. Although a male actor has a major role in New Moon it is usually teenage girls and women who pay most attention to romance. Also young girls and women are usually attracted to the opposite sex and the image of the male actress attracts a large scale of females. With New Moon being a romantic fantacy it enables women mainly to relate largely to the storyline as they are portrayed as more emotional and romantic than the majority of men. On the front cover of People, the male character Robert Pattinson, is stood a step in front of the female character, this shows how males tend to have more power over women, and how women are seen to come across as innocent. The denotation of the magazine would be the sub titles, and different colours making headline stand out on the page, the conotations however would be the two characters as they are the main story to the magazine as it represents the film new moon. This connotation would be the key reason to why the audience is most likely to buy the magazine. The smaller images at the bottom of the page represents differents aspects of the love triangle in New Moon of the three main protagonists. This also encourages fans and others in the audiences to buy into reading about the film before watching it as the first film twilight was hugely successful.

Other key factors on the front cover of the magazine is the 'puff' this helps further promote New Moon. Next to the title 'People' there is a strap line saying 'special collectors edition' this helps promote the film and the majority of fans are likely to want to read up about the up coming release of the film.