Creme Magazine Analysis

Creme is a New Zealand young teenage girl magazine.
Taylor Swift is on the cover. She is famous.She is known for her work in the music industry.  She is a singer/songwriter with hits such as "We are never getting back together" and "22".

The qualities she is know for are:

Innocence
Talent
Gentle
Feminine
Romantic
Role Model
Sensitive

Taylor Swift has blonde, curly hair and is slender. She as fair/ pale skin with no imperfections. She has a petite figure with dainty features.

The connotations of this are:

In my opinion, I believe that Taylor Swift's connotations reiterate her qualities.

The colours used on the cover are, pink, blue and white. I think these colours were used because it reflects the femininity of the magazine. The pink represents love, nurturing, compassion and romance. The idea is further used in later article about romantic relationships. The blue represents intelligence, self-reliance and responsible.The idea is later used in the article "How to be heard, stay calm and get what you want." White represents innocence which I think reflects the target audience, young girls. This reiterates what Taylor represents.

There are no images but their are snippets of the main articles of the magazine.


The main articles on the cover are:

-Taylor Swift in New Zealand
-How to be heard, stay calm and get what you want
-You interview The Wanted
-New Look Fashion
*Fashion under $50
*Step-by-step DIY
*Style Stake-out
& so much more!
-Exclusive: We meet The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson + 200 tickets&movie gear

I think this technique of putting snippets on the cover engages the reader/audience to want to buy the magazine. Also the fonts used of the cover are fun, feminine and exciting which also engages the audience.

It tells us that teenage girls are attracted to bold titles, celebrity lives and boys.

Advertisements inside the magazine include:

2 Make-up
1 Skincare
1 Hair products
4 Clothing/Jewelry
1 Technology
8 Other (Perfumes, ZM Radio, Smoking Quite line, Tampon/Pads & Hunger Games Tickets)

My thoughts are that because it is a female orientated magazine, the editors of the magazine would chose articles and advertisements that effects young women such as developing their individuality through their appearance. Feminine things such as make-up and jewelry are big parts of teenagers lives whether its to make themselves feel beautiful or taking to keep up with society's expectation of beauty.

The main focus' of the articles contained in the magazine are:

Beauty
Fashion
Friends
Boyfriends
Advice

My thoughts are that young females have different problems than young males. Advice columns particularly reference this. The purpose of advice columns are to help young women with problems with the friends, boyfriends and family. Beauty reviews and advice is particularly helpful for young girls as that are trying to learn how to do their make-up and to try different things. Friends are particularly important to those that are very involved in having close friends. Young females can learns how to make friends or to simply just treat their friends right.

The stereotypes of teenage girls in the magazine are being feminine, boy crazed, materialistic and idolize famous people.
First of all, not every girl is in love with make-up, in fact some girls think it is idiotic to plaster yourself with synthetic products. Some prefer to be natural or use a minimal amount of make-up.
Second of all, not all young teenagers are boy-crazed. Some would rather focus on their friends,family and schoolwork. Priorities of girls differ as they have different morals, ideals and are brought up differently.
Lastly, not all girls idolize famous people. Some don't believe in the idea some stand for.

There are ommission of race. There are very few people that are coloured. The most common ethic group is white. Also the prefence to straight people. The are no references to homosexuals in this magazine. This is wrong because there is little equality in the magazine because not everyone is the same and the magazine doesn't reflect this. It only really appeals to a few types of teenagers.

The celebrities offered as role models are:

Taylor Swift
The Wanted
Annah Mac
Jennifer Lawerence
Felicity Jones
Josh Hutcherson
Massad
Reece Mastin

The magazine portays feminine/girly, straight, skinny, white girls are being normal. There are very few curvy, tom-boy, curvy, coloured girl features in it. This is bias because everyone is an indiviual and this magazine only appeals to a few types of people.

This does provide a psotive message though. It empowers young women to be strong and feel beautiful. It also allows young women to follow in the footsteps of a role they find idealistic.