magazine analysis

1. Front Cover Analysis

3. The target audience is both genders as girls/women might aspire to be
like Rihanna, as she is an attractive young women. Boys/men might also
find here attractive for different so they would buy the magazine. A
specific age group probably be between the ages of 16 - 30; the
magazine want to attract young adults she is young herself. Her fan
base is probably all younger so the issue would definitely attract them.
Their interests could be music, as this is a music magazine, they could
also be interested in her life as the anchorage text exclaims that she is
crazy in love (her fans would be very interested in her life story as well as
her music).
In the magazine, the main image is using a direct mode of address,
meaning the artist is looking directly at the audience. This tells me that
the artist wants have a personal relationship with the reader. The artist
wants to be able to seem less intimidating as they are taking about an
intimate subject. On the front cover we have music artist Rihanna who is
a worldwide superstar. She is on the front cover because it is a music
magazine, but also to share information about her life as she is 'Crazy in
Love'. This implies that the artist has probably enter a relationship or is
in one. She is obviously in love with someone.

4. The anchorage text is an intertextual reference to Beyoncé’s No. 1 single
'Crazy in Love', which is a very steamy and sexual song; this could be
connotations of how her relationship is like.
The overall image shows that she young and carefree as her hair quite wild.
The image is quite seductive and flirtatious, hard at same time; she doesn't
look like you can mess around with her. Which could attract the reader, even
though she looks hard on the outside she proclaims her love in the interview
within the magazine, which ties up with the saying 'don't judge a book by its
cover'. I believe that, that is the overall message she is trying to display on
the front cover.
They don't have any buzz words on the magazine, because of her fame and
notoriety would sell the magazine.

5. The title block 'Rolling Stone' is in big bold, red font. The boldness of the
font implies that the magazine is confident in what they write about in
their magazines, they takes risks to what they publish. The red infers
danger, they could publish quite controversial topics. The red can also
symbolise that the magazine can be explicit and sexual. The font is quite
retro and very ionic, which links to the type of people the magazine have
on their front cove.
The puffs suggest that it is going to have an interview with Rihanna,
discussing the topic of love and how she is in love with someone. The puffs
suggest that Green Day artist Billy Joel is going to make a comeback into
the music scene. There are heavier topics such as 'rape and the military',
this suggests that these are serious topics and is more informative about
the world in general. The lighter topics to be to a younger audience as
they would buy the magazine for music purposes. An older audience
would find the heavier topics more interesting as it is not as narrow as
Rihanna’s life.
They would not need a slogan as the artist Rihanna is so iconic she would
attract the audience.