An Exploration into the Expectations created by Different Magazine Covers. Magazines are a very widespread and popular media - read by hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Why are they so well liked universally? This could be for a number of reasons; firstly magazines cover a broad spectrum of topics- there is something for everyone. (This spectrum can be split up into two different categories; ’Special Interest’ e.g. film or music publications, …showed first 75 words of 1932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1932 total…smiling. She is not famous and she is wearing some reasonably trendy clothes, this is unlike the male oriented mags where the female looks sexual but here it more like just a friend. After looking at the aforementioned magazines I have noticed something about how magazines targeted at different people to create expectations/interest; late teenage - young adult male targeted mags tend to use beautiful women, while younger teenage girl's mags use more colours.