Textual Analysis of the front cover of Blender magazine

This is the front cover of Blenders magazine. The firt thing that appeals to you as the reader when you see the magazine is the medium shot of Taylor Swift. From the image we can see that direct mode of address is used because Taylor Swift looks as if she is looking straight at the audience and her gaze seems to be inviting and engaging. It encourages the reader to get engaged to the magazine. In the copy there is only 2-3 types of text used. Blender gets published by Dennis Publishings. One of the sell lines in the blender magazine is "Tech Special, Total Audio Immersion: Best New MP3 Players" from these sell line we can see that the magazine is aimed at young readers as mostly young readers are into technology but it also builds a representation of teenager as technofile. Similarily another sell line says "194 downloads" from this we can see that the magazine is aimed for teenagers because mostly teenagers love to download music compared to the older generation. But overall there is a big range in the audience for example, there is some old bands named on the front cover like Pavement and Nirvana who are loved by the older age as well as new bands such as Cnarls Barkley and Taylor swift who are aimed at a younger age. As well as a wide range of audience, the magazine is also aimed for a audience with a wide range of musical interests example, we go from indie rock (Pavement and Nirvana) to Pop (Michael Jackson) to R&B (Taylor Swift). There are a few conventions used such as the barcode and the limited amount of colours used. Also the title is placed behind the contemporary artist and the main focal image is of Taylor Swift who is a new artist so again the magazine seems to be aimed more to teenagers but not discluding the older audience.