Front Cover Magazine Analysis

Front Cover Magazine Analysis

The target audience for this magazine would be fans of the music genre ‘Rock’ and fans of the artists that are featured, Green Day or Billie Joe Armstrong in particular. The audience (Rock or Green Day/Billie Joe Armstrong fans) would the see image of him and be lured by the magazine as he is in one of the most successful and popular rock bands in the world and fans of the rock star would want to know the latest news on him or his band In the magazine cover, there are 4 smaller images that have been used. 3 of the images haven been used to advertise the ‘awesome posters’ that are in the magazine. The other image is of rock star ‘Dio’ who passed away, so his image is on there for a tribute.

The cover lines used are about all different rock bands that are featured in the magazine. Bands such as ‘Bullet for my valentine’ and ‘The king blues’.  In the editing of this magazine, Kerrang have used 4/5 different colours. They have used White, Blue, Yellow and Black. The use of black signifies that it’s a rock magazine as the colour black is related to rock music. The white and yellow is used to stand out against the black background.

They have kept to the same font pretty much throughout the whole cover which keeps it looking tidy for the target audience.

The target audience for this magazine would be fans of the music genre ‘Rap’ and fans of the rappers that are featured in the magazine, Eminem in particular. The audience (Eminem or rap fans) would see the image of him and be lured by the magazine as he is one of the most popular and successful rappers of all time and fans of his would want to know the latest news on him. In the Magazine cover, there are no smaller images included. This means that ‘VIBE Magazine’ wanted to make Eminem the stand out image on the cover.The masthead ‘VIBE’ is actually partially cover by Eminem’s head. This is only acceptable for the more well-known magazines because their target audience already know what they’re looking for in terms of the masthead and the name of the magazine.

The cover lines are partly about Eminem and what is to feature in the magazine, but mostly inclusions of other famous, familiar rappers or things such as ‘Who is the best rapper?’ and ‘50 hottest rap blogs’.

In the editing of this magazine cover, VIBE have only used 3/4 colours which keeps the look of the cover neat and tidy. They’ve mostly used Grey, Black and Red which signify that the magazine is a rap genre, as these colours are quite brutal, deep and dangerous colours.

They have kept to the same font pretty much throughout the whole cover which keeps it looking tidy for the target audience.