GOING THROUGH MAGAZINE COVERS

Hey, back to my blog after a really interesting and interactive session after a long time of online classes. We went through all the previous stuff we did and an overall revision of all of it. We learnt more about magazines and magazine covers in detail and were told to analyze a magazine along with its cover.

The magazine that I analyzed was a VOGUE magazine and here are the details I saw in it.

The following are those pages of the magazine that go with the cover line ie the cover story.
The cover story in the magazine has alot of photoshoot done on the main celebrity of the magazine who appears on the main cover photo too ie Britney Spears. She represents different kinds of trending fashion going on and in every photograph she depicts a flag somewhere for instance the colors of the flag blended in her scarf or wearing a badge of America's flag.

And lastly here is me making notes regarding this magazine's task and a picture of the notes too.

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