1. Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Chloe Whittle

2. Do a mood board of different
music magazines…..

3. Place a music magazine cover here, select
one which will have a similar target
audience to your own

4. Title of Magazine
This is the music
magazine Rolling Stone. It
features popular music
artists and trending topics.
It aims its magazine at
18-25 year olds and also
features a lot of sensitive
topics that a lot of music
magazines don’t include.

5. Masthead & Selling Line
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When we look at the magazine we can
that the masthead is blocked by the image
and is set behind the image. This
suggests that the magazines so popular
that their target audience all ready know
what the magazine’s called so therefore
they don’t need to see all the masthead.
The colour of the masthead is red with a
silver outline. The colour right is quite
bright which makes the title stand out. It
grabs peoples attention as then walk past.
The style of the lettering is very fancy
which shows that this magazine will be
very classy. The letters all have slight
flicks on them as well which are called
serif’s. This also shows that this magazine
will be formative and that it appeals to an
older audience.

6. Main Image
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The main image is of Miley Cyrus and
from what we can see she isn't wearing
anything. Miley is overly sexualized in
this magazine and she’s in a very sexual
position. This would defiantly attract
attention from males and females due to
the fact she's not wearing anything and
she's Miley Cyrus. Due to Miley being the
only image on the front cover suggest
that she's the main feature of the
magazine and the most popular that the
magazine holds.

7. Cover Lines & Main Sells
A lot of the writing featured on the front cover is written in serif
which features a small flick at the end of each letter. This suggest
like ive said before that the magazine is very classy and formal
which reflects the target audience. The writing of each article on the
left side gets smaller each time. This suggest that the most
appealing article is at the top and the least is at the bottom. The
font goes from capitals to lower case letters. If we look we can see
that the important words that the editors want to stand out are all in
capitals and all the rest are in lower case. This suggest that the
words in capitals are the words that the editors hope will attract the
audience.

8. Do the same thing for another magazine…select
one with adifferent genre to make a good
comparison.
This magazine is in
complete contrast to the
Rolling stone magazine.
This magazine is called
Seventeen and from first
looks this looks more
like a young teenagers
magazine which is
suggested though the
use of imagery and text.

9. Comparisons
-First of all similar to Rolling stone this magazine only
features one image of Justin Bieber. However unlike
rolling stone the image used is very simple and shows
Justin smiling. He is fully clothed and just simply
staring at the camera. The image of Justin Bieber is
also set behind the masthead which suggest that this
magazine isn't as popular and well known as Rolling
Stone.
-The writing used is also very big and bold grabbing
the audiences attention. The colour’s pink purple and
white are very natural colour's and appeal to female
more than a male which suggest that their target
audience is females.
- The front cover is also more busy and compacted
than rolling stone. It also offers a chance of winning
something which is another way in which this
magazine tries to attract a buyer. The fact that the
front covers very busy suggest that there's a lot of
interesting and appealing stuff that the reader will
enjoy. Unlike Rolling stone who rely heavily on the
image they have used on the front cover Seventeen
reply on the articles that the magazine feature inside.

10. Ideas for your own magazine
 For me the Rolling Stone magazine
appeals to me more due to the
simplicity of it and the use of
imagery. I think the use of imagery
is very attractive and grabs peoples
attention. I also think the front cover
is very easy to read and isn't to over
don’t like seventeen. The colour's
are also kept simple and have a sort
of class about them. They don’t try
to over sell the magazine which also
adds to the class of the magazine.
Rolling stone also has very
attractive font which is kept simple
and easy to read.