Images

There is usually one main image on a magazine front cover; the images used always represents the genre of the magazine for example the men's health magazine has a man with his top off and a 6 pack and a girl with her arms around him this shows to the target audience that the man is healthy and looks after himself and as a result he gets a beautiful woman. Therefore pictures can be used to grab the audience attention aswell as relating to the magazines genre.
I have looked at several college magazines withing my research and they all had the same layout with a big bold masthead; 3 sub contents at the top of the page; a big main image; and a smaller image at the top of page beside the sun contents. These magazines had a theme of a white background with green/blue/orange writing. The sub contents seemed to be more organised then on other magazines i believe this is because college is a more formal subject then fashion and mens health. Therefore i should not scatter sub contents across the page when i make my own front cover and only have two pictures max with a simple theme which coule be repeated.