Conventions Of A Front Cover

The model on the cover is Rita Ora, she is looking directly at the camera - which is a convention of lifestyle magazines. A medium long shot is used, this is very common for these magazines as it highlights costume, as well as face, text is not laid over her clothing as the magazine aims to encourage readers to be more like the model. Her makeup and hair is soft glam, this goes with her light pink playsuit to give very feminine representations and links to the mise en scene of the background and the text. The masthead is usually at the top of the magazine, stretching fully across. Cosmopolitan is always in the same sans serif font, but changes colours with every issue. All of the fonts on the page are sans serif and very easy to read, they are all black, white or pink. Cosmopolitan targets older teenage girls with their extremely feminine representations, using the colour pink extensively along with the glamorous makeup. These aspects are stereotypically symbolic of femininity and being a girl, especially for teenage girls. Front covers always have institutional details such as barcodes, price, issue number & date; an example is the 'H' in the bottom left corner which represents the publishing company Hearst.