Analysis cover 1

 From the front cover of the magazine you can see that the target audience for this magazine would attract both males and females around the age of 16-25. The first thing that attracts the readers eyes as they see the cover would be the medium shot of the artist Taylor swift an pop artist also knows as an hip hop artist, she has direct contact with the readers, engaging the audience. The title is placed behind the artist which is a typical convention within many music magazines, allowing audiences to focus on only the artist. The artist is dressed simply, following the the color scheme of the cover. As well as having a limited amount of jewelery, conveying simplicity as the cover is simple and straight forward, there is not much going on within the cover as shown from the artist as well as colors.
 There is a moderate amount of sell lines showing who it is targeting such as “boyfriend trashing radio ruling” yet showing a clear understanding of what the has within it, as well as showing that is aimed towards teenagers. Despite some appealing to females, there is some that appeal to both such as "194 Downloads" this tends to relate to a younger audience as they tend to consume there music through downloads. Through some sell lines it shows that the magazine is not only aimed at younger readers as well as those who are into Hip hop. "Plus Cnarls Barkly, Nirvana, Michael Jackson" From Nirvana we can see that it can also attract older readers as well as younger ones as shown from the image of Taylor swift, who appeals more to younger readers. From the many different types of artist mentioned in the mentioned in the magazine we can that the Blender magazine is representing a wide range of genres such as pop, hip hop, rock and and RnB.
 The layout of the front cover is simple with no much color within it, colors that are used are blue black and grey which tend to be seen as dull colors ,despite this the colors do stand out, font is also very limited, having less going on allows the readers to understand it.
The black box adds an extra image to the cover, which is more appealing, and allows some of the main features to stand out, the color of the box attracts audiences attention straight away as there is not many such conventions on the magazine.There is many typical conventions on the magazine such as bar code, mass heads also colloquialism "D'OH!"

Blender magazine was previously published by Dennis publishing, but now is published by  Alpha productions.