Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Magazine cover - Textual Analysis

The colours of this magazine cover show that the target audience is a more mature one because they have used white and gold. The white shows purity and the gold shows class and wealth. The font is quite classy and not too over the top like a teen magazine, showing the class of the more mature women it's aimed at. Therefore, I think the target audience for this magazine would be women from the ages of 25-40. The socio-economic grouping for this would be B to high C. 
Natalie Portman could attract women to look up to her and also shows us who the target audience is because she is a mature woman herself who is in her 30's with kids and is very successful in her career. Therefore, women look up to her as a sort of role model. As she has been famous for a while, fans of hers have grown with her so they will always look up to her for the time she's in the media. She also isn't sexualised in any way and is made out to be a more classy, stylish woman. Even though she is showing her shoulder, she isn't wearing anything that is showing a lot of her skin and making her look seductive.
The cover lines also give us an idea of the audience. One cover line says, 'look younger by morning', older people are the ones trying to look younger, whereas younger people are trying to look older which is why it's aimed at older women. 

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