The image of Britney has been framed by headlines of the stories included in the magazine. By having the headlines framing her this way emphasizes the image and immediately draws your attention to the centre which is the main image. The image has been cropped to show a medium/long shot of Britney lying down on a pink silk sheet. The image has been photographed as if it has been taken above her, portraying more a sexual idea rather than her standing in front of a silk sheet. This positions the reader ‘on top of her’ suggesting that the target audience for this magazine are males.
Britney’s costume in this image is rather revealing as she is wearing underwear/nightwear. The black silk bra and polka dotted knickers suggests that she is still only young. The pastel pink colour of her knickers emphasize her innocence, contrasting with the sexual and seductive colour of the black bra. Britney is dressed provocatively, which grabs the male attention and makes them want to buy the magazine as it suggests that there will be other images of Britney like this inside, with a story to go with why she looks this particular way. For example we can see the heading ‘Britney spears’ on the left top hand corner with the story underneath which says ‘inside the heart, mind and bedroom of a teen dream’. This will also drawn there attention.
There are two props been used, a tellytubbie bear and a telephone. The bear suggests that she is childish because she is closely hugging it with it in her right arm. The telephone in her left hand suggests that she is ‘gossiping’ which portrays her as a typical teenage girl. By her ‘gossiping’ on the phone links to what the magazine story is about, and shows the audience that she will be telling a lot inside. The phone also suggests to the audience that she’s talking to ‘boys’ or ‘men’ and makes the target group wonder who exactly she is talking to. She is lying on a hot pink, silk bed sheet which represents that she is feminine. The connotations of silk are that it’s sexy and feminine, along with the connotations of the colour hot pink.
There are quite a few intertextual references being made on this magazine cover. The main one I noticed was the way she is using a children’s bear in a different content to a way a child would. For a example the tellytubbie is being used in a sexual image whereas normally a tellytubbie is seen as innocent. The dominant colours in this image are pink. This shows us that Britney is very girly, feminine and fun. The dark colours also used on the cover show the contrast between her fun, girly side and her ‘sexy’ side.
