Magazine Analysis in more detail - "Tell"

For my analysis of student magazines in closer detail, I have chosen to look at the magazine "Tell", which is a magazine that has been constructed for female students as well as being a gossip magazine for younger females, we can see that this magazine has been constructed through various gender typed Layout, Mis-En-Scene, Font and Language features. The front cover of “Tell” uses a lot of bright colours in the layout, this connotes that the use of brighter colours will interest the female audience rather than a male audience who are more likely to be interested in darker more masculine colours, this initial visual attraction draws the audience in to buy and read the magazine. The masthead connotes that this magazine is for a younger female audience because the masthead, “Tell” appeals to the audiences love for gossip and secrets (Mainly females enjoy this), therefore the masthead serves it’s purpose of getting the magazine noticed. This magazines mode of address connotes a formal tone therefore appealing to the adolescent stage of a females life before they enter their full maturity, as younger females tend to read these kind of magazines to feel older, the magazine also uses graphics which appeal to the younger female audience such as pictures of models, animals and clothing. The central image connotes fun and having a good time, this appeals to a younger female audience because everyone, although especially younger people, like to have fun . The cover lines are two different colours which is practical is enticing readers to look as the smaller articles of the magazine, this connotes that women don’t have enough time to always read everything on the front of magazines and are more prown to scanning items for appealing information. The captions based under the pictures on the front of this magazine mostly express the items above them, using words like ”free” and “win” which connotes to the audience a sense of easy achievement and free items which is likely to be a big factor when buying. Also the typeface/font of this magazine uses contrasting colours, this highlights the written text and draws the audience into reading it.