Keira Knightly magazine front cover

I made a magazine front cover for a magazine called 'dwell' the main image consists of keira knightly therefore all the conventions revolved around that. I understood that magazines have various codes and conventions that should be followed in order to suit the genre, for example no more than three colours were used in this magazine front cover so that the conventions followed that of a real magazines. I produced this front cover in Publisher as text works better when layered onto a image rather than alternitives such as Photoshop. My magazine front cover also needed to reflect the aspirations of my target audience which whom are elderly teens to women in their thrities, i feel that most of those women aspire to be like Keira Knightly, threrfore i used her in my magazine exclusive.