Comparisons

COMPARE TWO MAGAZINE COVERS

         All magazines have a masthead which is usually, the top section of a magazine, and in this case across the masthead there is strap line, which puts the magazines ideology into a slogan or sentence. Most magazines tend to have aspirational people as their model on the cover, because they want to be your role model, as they are what people dream of when thinking of a richer, higher status, more popular life style, which obtained by celebrities. 

   Both magazines have use a constant font, to not put too much stress on the eyes. VOGUE use a subtle pink as the title and coverlines, to match the model hair and costume, and a pastel turquoise to contrast the model. Most magazines tend to use an appealing colour scheme, that appeals to their target audience, so the smart, sophisticated look that GQ has, would mean their model has to be sleek and smart. GQ have also gone for a neat and tidy look with grey fonts to match the model, and the bright red to make that header the main focus.


     Most of the readers for VOUGE will be 16 to 35 interested in fasion and in the featured celebrities stories (human interest stories), also we can see that the target audience will be young because the magizine uses sutle pastel colours, which make it sophisticated, like GQ, but instead of feminine pastel colours, they use light and dark greys to create the sophisticated feel, so the age for GQ is a little different in my opinion, from 20-40.