This document analyzes the front cover of a popular 1990s music magazine featuring Oasis band members Liam Gallagher. The magazine cover prominently displays the magazine logo in red at the top left and features a black and white image of Liam Gallagher looking angry to promote a story about a shotgun. Other stories and articles about bands like Foo Fighters and Black Keys are also advertised. The clean white background and bold fonts and colors are analyzed as stylistic choices to clearly promote the magazine branding and stories.

1. Advert analysis – oasis
This advert is a clear front page of a popular magazine of the time when oasis the
band where together. This id obviously a big magazine because it was attracting
big stars like Liam Gallagher out of oasis which at one time where a big rock
group with huge fan support. The advert also talks about and has headlines for
other big groups such as the foo fighters and the black keys. It also mentions
some solo artists on the front page as well so there is a sense that this magazine
commonly or intentionally deals with music and big artists it even says right at
the top next too the logo that it is the ‘worlds greatest music magazine’.
The main image of the magazine is on the guitarist and lead singer from the band
oasis, showing a straight possibly angry image of Liam. The image has been
chosen to relate to the heading that the story is on about talking about a shotgun
so in my opinion it does not look like a good issue that it is on about so that
relates to the picture.
The other important information that it includes on the front page is of other
stories that are making the music news. Also the magazine logo fills the top left
hand corner of the page, this is quite a prominent image and I believe that it is as
bold and as big as it is because they want to promote and display the branding of
the magazine, which if people like the stories might continue to buy that type and
they wont miss it in a shop because of that logo. I believe red is used in the logo
too bring emphasis to it as well give it the boldness it requires.
The background of the page is white, which in my opinion makes the front cover
look clean and tidy which people could like in comparison too other displays that
are more out there and more pattern of picture based, this front cover is based
upon there most important or exclusive story and they have a main image that
shows that dominating the page and all of the other stories it around it.
In terms of color the front cover is very basic and has a particular theme and I
believe it is based upon the logo color, which is set in red, and white with a black
title at the top where it states ‘the greatest music magazine’. All of the bands
names are written in red and underlying comments are in black. The oasis title is
in black. The font is bold and thick and is in a very basic and common font which
in some ways make it look professional but could be argued boring. One of the
biggest bits of writing is the caption that tells the reader how many pages there
are and has the plus in black and the 37 in red and there is a slightly different
font for this as it is not related to anything other on the page.
The last thing that I can pick up from the magazine is the fact that the main
image is in black and white which could go with the story that it is talking about,
this differently means something and I think it is up for interpretation to what it
is about.