Analysation of Magazine cover

 

The Mens fitness magazine is a magazine that has been created for mainly Men however there are someone women that tend to pick up the magazine to essentially see what its like due to curiosity or that they may be simply a fan of the actor that is presented on the front cover of the magazine. This magazine helps men and women get into fitness by showing some work out routines along with multiple fashionable tips, e.g. which clothes they should wear with such and such which allows them to create a certain thesis or learning atmosphere through the mag e.g. a niche audience.

The colour scheme for Mens fitness is Black and Gray. The colour black is relayed with the colour conotations of power and strong will, this also corresponds with the colour conotations of gray as it is known to have the colour conotations of sophisticated and conservative which may appeal to most of the male audience that will be purchasing this magazine.
The reason that this appeals to most of the male audience is that the famous actor on the front of the magazine is also known from multiple different movies and tv series.Henry Cavil is known from the tudors and also one of his latest films the man of steel along with batman and superman dawn of justice. He is reffered to as the man of steel, this could be seen as a pun but also is a good usage of the colour scheme and also the mast head of the magazine. Steel is known to be cold and dull so the colours gray and black corollate with this along with Henry cavil being in black and white colour complexion through editing. Most males may aspire to be like Henry cavil after watching his movie Man of steel and through this buying this magazine may allow them to dream of becoming like him through seeing his work out routine and along with a few quotes from him along with his style of clothing.
There is also usage of Direct address in this magazine cover as Henry cavil is not looking to the side or down he is looking directly at the audience which may show off an atmosphere of him being challenging and strong as in most other magazine covers most likely with women who are shot in the male gaze they are seen as vunerable and weak but Henry cavil being the man is seen as a strong as profitable man and most people will aspire to be like that to be able to challenge society. This also reinforces hierachy as Henry cavil is dominant in this magazine cover and is seen to be stronger than most others.
The total price for the men's fitness ads are £5 but are bought through subscriptions which are monthly purchases. Most of the content that we would want to know that is inside the magazine is presented on the front of cover for example on henry cavils left hand side we see the sentence superman's to super spy henry cavils steel and style. Due to this we would suspect that inside the magazine we would get a sneak peak at what the type of clothing and colour coordination's that Henry Cavil wears. This magazine is for men from the ages of thirty going onto late fifties and going on due to multiple things that are presented with this magazine. For one the actor on the front cover is middle aged, another factor would be that again the colour scheme of the magazine would incline us to acknowledge that the magazine isn't for young people as it doesn't seem to have colourful presentation as it is mainly dry and cold rather than vibrant and bursting with content.
The second page of the magazine is an agony page which allows the consumers of the magazine to send in question requests and ask the producers certain information about certain topics and then get a an answer back in the following or the same magazine before it's published. For example in one of the men's magazine a question was asked 'should i ditch the low carb diet'. Now this is very useful as it allows its readers to get information on how they should stay fit and how useful certain dieting techniques are. The 4th page of the magazine tends to be a advertisement of an actor or maybe a new car thats being released to certain audiences that can most likely afford the price of it.
After that page there is Editorial page which is an message from the editor talking about how they made the magazine or how they got in contact with certain individuals in the magazine branching off to certain information that may be useful in the future about upcoming magazine.
The following page would be a job advertisement for older men who have retired and would probably be looking for a job thats not to comittment based but also allows them to work enough to get by.
Finnaly the last two pages of the magazine tend to be Diet plans, for example try this diet and burn off x amount of carbs for 72 hours which is actually very compelling and eye catching to male audiences who want to get in shape fast and also dont have to be spending that much money on protein drinks or other sources.