Five examples of teenage girl magazines
This is seventeen magazine at £2.75. It is very bright with a pink/red background and yellow and orange writing. This suits the month of the magazine, May, as they are spring colours. It makes the magazine look happy, fresh and young which is the target audience it aims for. In the centre is a teenage girl actress dressed in a floral swimsuit, bright cardigan and statement necklace. Her hair is down and windswept which looks flirty but then she has a sexy smoky eye. Her swimsuit is very revealing in the bottom half, I don't think that they should have put her legs in or she could have had a skirt of something to cover up. The look has given her an older, more grown up vibe with the swimsuit being pulled together in to an outfit. But it is very feminine and pretty and links the '250+ swimsuits article'. On the left hand side there are two large plugs with the main words WIN and FREE in bold so you look at them first. The magazine uses exclamation marks and symbols to simplify and accentuate certain articles. The main article actually invites you inside to read, it plants the idea in to your head so you don't have to think about. All the articles are about your looks.
This 'MORE' magazine is a lot more full, it is covered with pictures and writing from top to bottom. The masthead is partly in black and then the part behind Beyonce's head is in pink this puts more attention on her. The page is split in half by a bold diagonal strip that cuts across Beyoncé, it is blocked in baby pink with a large cover line including numbers and linking to the month of the magazine. It then has photos of clothes and models surrounding it showing a little snippet of what's inside the magazine. Puffs like "FROM £2" are there to hook people, they draw them in because people notice how cheap the product is. To the right Beyoncé is dressed in a cute outfit, a little black dress, with a jewelled bow in her hair. Her hair is curled and she has quite soft makeup on which suits the tone of the magazine; she is not dressed in her usual sexy attire. But this completely contradicts the article on her, it says about her sexy makeover for Jay Z her husband but they've dressed her in the complete opposite. Also stating that she is Queen B implies that she knows what she's doing and is someone to aspire to but if she is changing herself for her man then she shouldn't be. The magazine has also put an image of her and Jay Z together on the front which shows them laughing giving the impression that what Beyoncé is doing is working for the relationship. Right at the bottom is an article about looking natural and having surgery and which of them men prefer, I find this totally degrading as it is basically engraving in to women's minds everywhere that you have to look good for a man to like you and that it's not whether you feel comfortable but if the male finds you attractive.
This Teen Vogue magazine already looks more sophisticated just by the colour scheme and layout. You can see that the masthead font has been specially picked to suit the magazine, they have used a young font for 'TEEN' but kept Vogue as the traditional version. This gives it a young feel without feeling patronising. The colour scheme that Vogue has used is red, black and white, creating a young but mature feel; its not too girly so suits one direction as well. The guys are all dressed in dark colours to blend in with the background but then their faces are lit up giving the impression that article is truthful about their feelings and not all the shallow things like looks and clothes. But as Vogue is a fashion magazine they have to have a bit of it so we can still see their separate outfits. They have made the magazine young and sophisticated instead of cheesy like all the others. The black shows the cover-line more clearly so the articles are not being outshone by One Direction. All three articles are about fashion and beauty except One Direction.
SHOUT magazine looks like its for the younger teens like 12 and 13. It has a lot less on it and has quite a refreshing colour scheme, orange and white. The masthead is a thin block writing so you can see the picture behind it but it takes up the whole width of the magazine so it is still the first thing you see. We get the idea straight away that this is a pop magazine because its got Connor Maynard as the main picture and then there is an article about Union J to the left. We know that it is a girls mag as its got make up, clothes and boys on the front. Once again the SHOUT has not just kept all the content on one side of the cover they have placed it all around the edges. On the left is an article about Union J giving you an exclusive valentines message, a plug/puff to win Little Mix's wardrobe, Sweet Spring Looks and then another bubble about fashion. On the right is Connor Maynard's main interview with the Cover-line 'Calling all Mayniacs!'. They changed the spelling of maniacs to the spelling of his name because that is what his fans are called. Underneath that is an article about real people and then at the bottom is a collection of images of make up.
BLISS is an extremely feminine magazine with a pink, white and blue colour scheme. Jessie has been dressed in these colours but she disappears in to the background. The light is focussed on her face and freshly shaven head including her beaming smile. Because of this I feel instantly happy when I see it but then this fades when I see the rest of the magazine. The magazine is just too cluttered you can't focus on what it's about. There are articles on girlie gossip, Facebook games, real life stories as well as advice about drinking. But they have also sexualised The Wanted with the title 'big balls and nip slips' which is not what the target audience should be reading. In the bottom right is a fashion story telling you what you should wear this summer. The magazine slightly redeems itself with the article about Jessie 'Boobs, barnets and being yourself.' I know that this is going to be about being yourself and not caring about what others think; being a strong woman. Again its all over the place not just to the left.
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