Front Cover Analysis

1. Target Audience and genre
The target audience for this article
would be people who enjoy techno
music. As the picture depicts, the
target audience would have been
from people of the age range of
young adults(15- early 20s).This is
because the colour suggest a young
audience and its has a simple design
to it.
Main Image
The main image has been photo
shopped to make the artist appear
reflected/duplicated .This creates a
more modern appearance which
reinforces the genre of techno.
Model credit
The model credit is above the main
cove line which is in a small text and
says “o-page special edition”. This
makes the audience aware of the model
credit as it suggests that this is a special
magazine
Main Cover Line
The name of the artist i s simply in a sans-seri
f font which makes the audience know
that the artist is called sub focus and they
are a modern type of music .The main cover
l ine is sub focus which also links to the cover
image of the magazine. The magazine shows
supports the main cover line of sub focus as
the cover image i s blurry and not in focus
towards the artists face.
Masthead
The masthead is at the primary optical area
which is where the audience first looks at when
they look at a magazine. Due to the fact that
the magazine is from a famous brand, it is
obvious (despite the fact that the artists head is
covering the masthead) the masthead is still
recognisable.
The Gutenberg Design Principle
The primary optical area has the name of the
magazine which promotes the magazine but
also people can identify the magazine as
mixmag. Through the axis of orientation, the
main cover line is in the middle of the magazine
which shows that the audience that this
magazine includes sub focus.
Colours/Typefaces/House style
The colour theme of this magazine shows:
modern, dull and dreamy colours. This shows
that the magazine is for an specific age range
as the colours do not appeal to a young
teenager and it doesn’t attract people of a 25
or above age range.
Coverlines
The cover line is in boxes in contrasting colour for the text.
The text cover lines are all in capital letters which makes the
audience give more attention to the cover line as they words
in capitals create a sense of attention.
Banners/Flashes/badges
The banner, at the bottom right corner is
closely next to the main cover line which
makes the audience direct there attention
after the main cover line towards the banner.