The Sun and Times style Magazines

This is the magazine that I have created in the style of a tabloid newspaper, similar to 'The Sun'. As you can see there is a huge image that would entice people to look at the cover. The cover shows Ann Widdecombe, who was a politician, but is now well known to the general public because of her time on Strictly Come Dancing. The title of the magazine is in the top left corner, which will help to identify the magazine. The text on the cover is large which will make it easy for consumers to read, and may also attract people to the magazine as the can read the title far away. It also gives a small amount of information. This might encourage people to buy the magazine. There are also side stories that will appeal to the male gaze. The use of this is a re-occurring through most tabloid magazines as that's what their readers want. Tabloids often cover stories about celebrity gossip, instead of more detailed stories on political events. This might include information about them or tips and ideas from them about their lifestyle. The amount of information on the cover is generally very limited. The publisher wants people to buy the magazine and find out the content by reading the story. What really makes this similar to other magazines is the bright colours and the lack of text of information that it shows.

On the moodboard you can see the different magazines that are popular with the same demographic of audience as the times, so I have tried to based my own magazine on them. Almost all of the magazines included in the moodboard have only got one image, and it is the huge main one. A couple of them have small pictures to advertise stories in the magazine which is similar to the Sun magazines. This magazine has much less content on it than all of the Sun magazines, and its the same for all the magazines on this moodboard. They just seem less cluttered. Although you can't see it here, these magazines are typically bigger, and allow more space for each story, and this is the same for their covers. It's what I've tried to show with my own design.