Existing magazine covers

There is a wide variety of magazines currently available, all of different genres and aimed at different target audiences. The ones you see on a magazine stand are all well established, and although very different in style and stories, have clear conventions they follow. For example the masthead, each and every magazine above has one. They are all at the top of the cover, taking up the full space or keeping to the left hand corner. They also clearly have one ain picture, which presents the artists/ celebrities that they have used for their main story. This picture is used to attract the audience, and tends to fit in with the genre. For example, above we see NME's cover which has darker colours and more serious facial expressions. On the other hand the TeenVogue cover has Kendall & Kylie Jenner, who are very popular among teen girls, wearing brighter colour with a lighter background. Both these covers are very different, whilst showing similarities with magaine covers and also show what their audience would like to see.