Front Cover Analysis

This is the front cover of Max power magazine.

There are a variety of different sized texts for different reasons. The headings are there to attract the audience into the big issues of the contents of the magazine so it makes the target audience want to purchase it. Also the colour of the writing portrays different meaning, for example "max dwarfs go karting crazy!" this text is in red and it represents the danger of how the karting could result. This is a magazine under the genre of motor vehicles and this is made obvious to me as the whole of the front cover involves cars and the improvements to them. The purpose of the text is to make the target audience read the front cover and then buy the magazine to read the full content of it. The main unique selling points of this magazine are the interesting activities they do in it and the competitions that Max have to offer. For example the max dwarfs going karting, they don't just use the average karter but use a dwarf to give it an extra appeal to the comedy side of the event. Also the magazine contains many of the newest cars and some of the best affordable sports cars which appeals to the target audience as they are mostly young men who have their first of second car. In addition the target audience are young adults that like sports cars and racing cars, so "Japan's fastest cars" will inspire the target audience to own a car of such class. I know this age group is the target audience because the articles advertised in side the magazine are mostly fast, stylish and new sports cars which is the type of car the target audience are interested in. The text appeals to the target audience with lexis such as; hottest cars, fastest cars and comical phrase like - handles brilliant! goes like a rocket! loves it sideways! ..... and the cars not bad either which illustrates the type of speech people of the target audience like and use themselves. The use of the model in her underwear also appeals to the target audience as they are of the age group which likes to see cars and women together and also makes the car look more appealing. The masthead is in two different colours and two different sizes, this shows that the word "max" is more dominant than "power" and as "max" is in red this displays the danger that the word has. I think this magazine front cover does have the right conventions of its genre as it displays many cars on the cover and it also has the comical side for it target audience to appreciate. The text inspires me to make my magazine look interesting and advertise as much on the front cover the display the information that is in the rest of the magazine.