Front Cover Analysis 3

 

The age rating for this magazine is directed more towards a male audience of 20-45 years. The reasoning for this is because of the masculine feel this cover holds, the two men locking eyes onto each other gives a sense of tension that you rarely find with other magazines therefore you engage more because you wonder what the reasoning for this tension.

This magazine (Rolling Stone) uses only three different colours White Red and Black to give a simplistic style but still standing out to give enough effect. In addition to this, the font style looks very professional to add to the high status of this magazine and to put emphasis on the story lines such as ‘SHOWDOWN!’. The magazine article has decided to make this bold to both add emphasis to the story line and to fill up more of the magazine space.

The masthead on this magazine is written across the page at the top, this magazine differs to others because it does not have the title right at the top of the magazine before the stories are introduced instead we are given an insight into what the magazine is offering before we actually know what magazine it is! This masthead also has part of it covered by an article in the magazine but because of how well known the magazine is they are able to get away with it. A reason for them doing a risk such as covering up part of the masthead is the tradition of the title, almost every cover features the same title in the same font, size, colour etc. and therefore when people come across a different issue such as this they are still able to pick up on what magazine it is.