I have designed my front cover to appeal to my target audience choosing the main colours carefully. I wanted to stick to Top of the Pops house style which usually includes blue, yellow and pink. This mixture of colours means that the magazine will appeal to both boys and girls, whereas if it was just pink, no boys would be interested in reading it. The actors in the central image had to have a direct mode-of-address so that they looked friendly and gave the image a positive feeling. It also fitted in with the pop genre of the magazine. It wouldn't be appropriate to have a scary looking, middle-aged man wearing and eyeliner and frowning as the central image. It wouldn't fit in with the rest of the magazine. The layout is very similar to an issue of Top of the Pops which i have analysed closely and it isn't too overcrowded, but just full enough to look fun and eye catching.