I have learned from analysing front covers that colours are important in order to reach your target audience. For example a heavy metal magazine would use colours such as red and black to appeal to their audience and their darker side. By comparison a more mainstream magazine uses bold, striking stylish colours to appeal to a target audience who like to follow the crowd. I have also learned how a layout can appeal to an audience, for example an indie magazine would have a simple layout to appeal to their audience as it represents most indie people's attire as they like to keep it simple. By contrast top of the pops has a very frantic layout where there are pictures all over the cover and different things scattered around this could convey that it appeals to an audience that is energetic and likes different things going on. Another thing that I learned is that facial expression can appeal to different audiences. For example a dance magazine could have a woman with an inviting facial expression to show that the women that it appeals to are seductive. This contrasts to top of the pops where the smiles are inviting but not seductive because of the young target audience as they would like the people on the cover to look like nice people. 

I have learned from analysing double page spreads that enticing your audience to read the article is very  important. also appealing to your audience is important because if it doesn't appeal to them then they wouldn't buy the magazine. I also learned that in most conventional magazines there is a large image on the left hand side followed by a big heading and the article on the right hand side.