Research - Magazine 2

The genre of this magazine cover is RnB/Hip Hop. We know this as the image is off an RnB star also the straplines show that their is information on rappers as well. The target audience is male and female teenagers. We know this as it features musics stars that sing RnB/ Hip Hop music which teenagers will listen too. The image is of a well - known singer called Ciara..The main focus is this image of her as it is the only image on the front cover.This image relates to the msuic genre because Ciara sings RnB music. Ciara is placed on the right side of the magazine. We can see that her head is covering the 'B' in VIBE. This is fine as VIBE is a well-known magazine company, so many people will recognize it is a VIBE magazine because of the way it is written and also where it is positioned at the top, as the layout on all vibe magazines are the same. In the image, Ciara is wearing a short black dress which brings out her figure, this makes Ciara look even more attractive as teenagers will like what she is wearing because it is something that many teenagers girls will wear.  She is wearing dark eye make up too which matches with the dress. This shows that she took time and effort when taking the shot as she wanted to look her best.The colour of the dress goes with the background colour even though the background colour is blue. However towards the top of the magazine cover the blue gets darker, By the colours matching makes the magazine look more proffesional. In this image, Ciara is not smiling however she doesn't look angry either. By using the two blues relates to the image as it makes the front cover look mysterious.


The magazine is called VIBE, this is a big magazine company which provides the latest gossip on many RnB and Hip Hop celebrities. VIBE  means emotional atmosphere as many songs can be happy, sad, good or bad. This relates to the target audience as  teenagers prefer different types of music. The straplines on this front cover are all different fonts, sizes and colours. This makes it easier for the audience as they will read the big font first which would be the important straplines. By using different colours makes the front cover look more attractive.. They are put on the right side of the magazine as the main message is on the left which relates to the image. Also they used an image of her where we can see her figure as the message on the left mentions  'new body' which suggest Ciara has done somthing to her body to make it look like how it is now. The 'new Body' is in bold which suggests that this is one of the important pieces of information. Also 'Ciara' is big and bold as the image is off her. The barcode is on the bottom left corner.