Magazine Front Cover Anaylsis

The magazine “Rolling Stone” is an appealing magazine to both genders it is most likely a magazine based for the younger generation as it talks about young famous celebrities from “Britney” and “Justin”. It would also be eye-catching to males as the “main image” of celebrity Britney looks appealing sexually and as she is wearing less clothing this would attract males to want to buy the magazine, her posture also indicates her being sexual and confident she comes across as a sexual Goddess. The magazine also has attractions for women to want to buy it as sell line “on Justin that kiss and being alone” would attract women to want to find out the rest of the story also as it is about “MALE” Justin. Britney uses a lot of white in this front cover, the colour white is symbolic for purity but the magazine contradicts this by Britney looking sexual as if suggesting she wants to reader to be close with her body.

The magazine has kept to a sensible colour scheme so it would not over-load the appearance of the magazine. The magazine use no more than four colours: white, blue, black, and red. There is also not an overloading amount of text this is so the reader can focus more on Britney’s appearance before reading about what they will find in the magazine.

The masthead had been brought to the back of “Britney’s head” showing that this is a popular well known magazine as a few words are missing, so if you weren’t familiar with the magazine you may not understand what the full name of the magazine is. However it is able to do this as it is well known it also gives the magazine a more appealing structure as the main image is more focus’s on.

From the front cover of this magazine the reader can tell that the type of music articles will be pop/R&B/Hip hop type of music. The anchorage text has a meaning to the picture as it states “Britney” and the main image is Britney. This implies Britney as an artist is famous and successful. This would make the reader want to buy the magazine as they know that Britney is doing well and the reader would want to find out more.

The use of font style are all very similar with a range of around 3 front styles in bold, there is also a lot of capitals used in some of the sell lines. The font sizes are also all of similar size, however some larger than others so that it stands out to the reader more.

The main strategies the magazine uses to influence the reader into buying the magazine is the main image “Britney” as she looks sexy, young and exciting, this would be highly attractive to men, another strategy used so that it also attracts women is the lead story stating “Justin” as he is also another attractive artist that would appeal highly to women.