Magazine Cover and Contents anaylsis

 

 

Front Cover: This magazine cover by billboard is quite minimalist in the amount of text. It is quite simplistic and traditional in its basic colour scheme of greys, whites and black.

Convey Genre:  Billboard magazine covers a wide range of music. Here the magazine itself, does not convey the genre of music through any of the text or the main image unless you know who the musician is. Usually in a music magazine the text or main image represent what genre is the main feature of the edition but there are no signs on this magazine cover.

Own Magazine:  I like the bold white text of the artist's name and the title of the article about him, this is captivating and so would attract the purchaser. I would use similar techniques in the use of text of my magazine as it is very simplistic yet eye-catching and appealing. The positive main image is also appealing through the artist smiling/laughing, which is something I would also like to represent in my music magazine. The lack of colour works well for this edition but in my magazine I would prefer some depth through my range of colours.



 

The contents page once again does not convey the genre as Billboard conveys multiple genres of music within editions of their magazines. Although it conveys the range of genres through the different images of the musicians and the colours used are not conventional for any specific genre. This contents page functions well due to the main featured stories being written in a bold blue text and the other articles being placed on the left; this then makes it easier for the reader to focus on the main articles. Further more from this organisation the contents page is quite simplistic and uncrowded which would appeal to readers.