Conventional Layout of a Magazine Frontcover

	Vanity Fair	Time	Teen Vogue
Image	The image is positioned in the centre of the front cover and takes up the majority of the page. She is looking towards	The image is positioned towards the bottom of the page. He is looking out into the distance.	The image is positioned in the middle of the page and fills up the majority of the page. She is looking towards the camera
Coverline	This issue of Vanity Fair does not have many coverlines. This suggest that having Caitlyn Jenner on the front page is enough to draw in costumers.	This issue of Time is the same as Vanity Fair. It does not have many coverlines as Martin Luther King is an inspiration and has been award man of the year the issue is all about him so he is more likely to draw in loads of costumers.	The issue of Teen Vogue has many coverlines that are covering the image. Also, the coverlines are in a smaller font meaning that they are not as important as Kylie Jenner who is on the frontcover. However, they are covering most parts of the image which could also suggest that they are using Kylie to target teenagers unlike the other the other two issue of magazines.
Main Coverline	The main coverline "Call me Caitlyn" is positioned in the middle of the page in front of Caitlyn Jenner which suggests that Vanity Fair devoted most of this issue on Bruce Jenner changing into a female. The magazine doesn't really focus on transgender issues meaning that this issue might have gotten a lot of costumers.	The magazine has no obvious tagline. However, there is a large image of Martin Luther King which suggest that the issue is a special issue of the magazine.	The main coverlines being "Music Special" and "Exclusive Being Kylie Jenner" are positioned at the top and the bottom of the page. They are in a bigger font then the other coverlines suggesting that they want people to get the latest gossip and to be able to get that they summaries and make the headlines more visible.
Title	The title of the magazine has a very basic design which is at the top of the frontcover. As it behind the image it suggests that the magazine title is not very important unlike the image on the front cover.	The title of the magazine also has a basic design and it very noticeable on the frontcover.	The title on this frontcover has two different fonts and colours suggesting that they wanted to be more unique with their magazine title.
Tagline	No noticeable tagline	The main tagline "The Weekly magazine" is placed at the top underneath the tile "Time". This tells us that they want their audience to know how often it comes out but to tell us without disturbing what they want to publish on their frontcover.	No noticeable tagline
Price	There is no noticeable price	There is no noticeable price	There is no noticeable price
Date	No noticeable date	The date "January 3, 1964" can be seen on the top of the frontcover in the corner.	No noticeable date

Front Cover for Young Generation Magazine 

Analysing the Front Cover of a Magazine

                                                             

Image and Title 

The image above show a picture of David Beckham posing for Men's Health Magazine. He's positioned to the side of the magazine so all the articles are advertised on the magazine cover. This suggests that the magazine uses a very famous familiar face to bring more people into buying their magazine especially Men because the title "Men's health" suggests its subjected to men and as David Beckham being mostly an idol in Men's football would attract more men to buying the magazine. 

Coverlines 

On the front cover, it tells us about how to improve ourselves by reading up on the articles. This shows us that this  magazine is to help men become fitter. By using famous sportsmen like David Beckham it's showing them how they should be having an "ideal body" like him so having coverlines like "101 ways to look great" is targeting people who don’t think they have the ideal body the magazine promotes. 

Main Coverline  

The main coverline"Style with Muscle" is positioned right next to David Beckham in big, bold writing. Different font size but not different colour or font. Suggesting that the magazine doesn’t need much colour to attract their audience type based on the theme of the magazine. Also, it suggesting that they want people to see more of David Beckham so they have him larger than the thing they want to promote in the magazine. 

Language  

The language they use to promote the magazine is informative and encouraging. By using words like "ways to look great" they are implying that there are more way to look better instead of choosing what everyone else does meaning  that there is more hope for everyone instead of going and sticking with one way. 

Colour 

The magazine uses a limited amount of colour in their font. Meaning that they don’t want to add as much colour because they want the celebrity on the front cover to stand out more. David Beckham wearing a red jacket on a white background makes him stand out even more than the writing and because he is so famous it would make him instantly eye catching. 

Price, Barcode and Date 

On the front cover of the magazine, there is no barcode, price or date meaning that they don’t really find this as much as a necessity to publish the price, barcode or date on the noticable part of the cover.