Magazines in shops

For this task I went into my local shop and took a picture of the magazines that they had in stock. From the picture you can see that they had many different types of magazines sports, cars, music and other popular topics. The magazines that most caught my eye were the rock music ones Kerrang and NME. They are well known popular magazines so are put towards the front of the shelf. The bright colours and bold fonts are used to attract customers attention as they walk by.

The magazines are placed in order of importance on the shelves the ones that are high sellers and well known are placed at the front so that people can find them easily. Whereas the less popular ones are placed behind them.

I noticed that all of the magazines have a colour theme throughout the front cover, The masthead is always in big bold fonts so that they are easy to read and most of them had the person on the cover looking directly at the camera to make eye contact with there buyers. Also they often offer a free gift with the magazine making you want to buy it more.