Teen Magazines

Girlfriend Magazine:
The magazine i analyzed was the teen magazine called 'Girlfriend'. Even just by reading the name of the magazine there are connotations portrayed. Such as, girly, gossip, celebrities and relationships. 

The Front Cover:
The front cover of the magazine had an image of a well known celebrity who teenage girls are fans of, Lea Michele. She is a famous singer and actress from Glee which is a television series. Some of her features were tanned, dark hair, dark brown eyes, pretty and she was wearing a pink top. Some of the colours on the front cover of the magazine matched her pink top that she was wearing. This colour is a very feminine and girly colour which attracts the teenage girls eye. On the front cover there is also an image of One Direction and Taylor Swift. These images are on the front cover because they are well known celebrities in the media at the moment, who the teens are crazing over. Therefore they are wanting to know all the gossip of what it says inside the magazine about these celebrities. This is a trick into the teenagers actually buying the magazine. Stories on the front cover are also mentioned such as, "The Hunger Games...Let the new obsession begin."  The Hunger Games is a new release movie which is as big as having made around $150 million. Also Reece Mastin is also said. Stories such as these are mentioned on the front cover because they are new and exciting, big things that are occurring in the media at the moment which the teens who are buying these magazines are interested in. 


Inside the Magazine:
Inside the magazine we tallied up the amount of advertisements that were being featured.
Make-up: 4
Skin care: 5
Hair Products: 1
Clothing/jewellery: 6
Technology: 7
Other: 9
So apart from other, clothing and jewellery tallied up to being the highest advertisement of these two products in the Girlfriend magazine. In the magazine there was a lot of advice on relationships and boyfriends because a wide range of teenagers have problems with these issues and are looking around for advice. What fashion is in right now and what clothes you should be buying at the moment. Beauty is also another main focus because there is lots of skin care and make-up advertisements. It does prove that lots of teenage girls throughout the world are self conscious of their looks. 
In the magazine most of the models are stereotyped as tall, pretty and skinny. Some celebrities in the magazines are offered as role models, such as TK off Shortland Street because he is in a non smoking ad supporting that he doesn't agree with smoking. And also Lea Michelle and Ido Drent. This is because teenagers look up to these sort of famous people so they are interested in seeing what they are doing. In the usual teen magazines, we only really usually see the same sort of people such as the pretty skinny girls, not different ethnicities. There isn't a wide range of different people we see in the magazine.