The magazine cover features Johnny Depp prominently placed over the masthead to imply his celebrity status supersedes the magazine's own identity. Subheadlines advertise a wide range of exclusive stories to entice readers. Color schemes use neutral tones like gold, white, and black to convey an upscale feel. Placement of images and articles is carefully designed to attract attention and promote a sense of exclusivity for the magazine's content and readership.

1. Magazine
The main image of the magazine has been place on top of the masthead giving Here they are advertising to the public
Deconstruction us an implication of the importance of the person, it can also show the they are going to get a “FREE” unheard
cockiness of the magazine showing the popularity and famous status this foo fighters album! Free being in bold
There is an image within magazine holds, due to its ability to hide the masthead behind the main image. striking letters to get more attention,
Dave Grohls mouth, the since free things are appealing to the
image is of his band “foo public this again will inevitably help
fighters” , with them them sell more copies of the magazine,
being in the background they have put the “small print” in an
or in this case smaller and awkwardly small text so that they
inside Dave Grohls mouth audience will not pay attention to that.
it shows the superiority
of Dave Grohl and his
lead singer status. The The main colour on this magazine
fire in his mouth suggests cover tends to show a trend of
his “voice is on fire”, this red. There are many reasons why
fits nicely in with the the magazine does this: The red
genre of the magazine stands out from the plain
with it mostly being a standardised Greyscale
magazine of rock most background grabbing the readers
definitely in the case of attention. It also is bring the
the foo fighters, and since readers attention to the “Free,
rock is associated with Exclusive” offer that the
hell the fire in his mouth magazine has to offer, a very
suggests he is the king or good marketing strategy,
devil if you will of rock. appealing to the readers of this
The band is represented magazine with the link to the foo
as coming or rather fighters.
rocking their way out of
hell. The main title is stating the bands name
All around the magazine there that they will be covering in this issue, its
are different bands and solo The colours of the magazine tend to stick to a maximum of four also heavily linked with the main image,
artists named, suggesting to colours, not too many to overload the readers the mind. They with Dave grohl being the lead singer in
the audience that they are ten to be Red, black, white and gold. Red seems to be used foo fighters it seems almost necessary to
definitely getting their selectively to indicate things that instantly grab the readers eyes, have him as the main image. They’ve
moneys worth for all of this Gold seems to have been used to indicate the speciality of one also chosen the colour white to stand
“need to know” information, topic, black to really to indicate nothing really important and out from the dark background of Dave’s
this inevitably will help them white to make things stand out from the greyscale background clothes, instantly aimed at trying to grab
sell more magazines the readers eye’s.

2. The mast head has been placed behind the main image, to give a sense
Magazine of the popularity and famous role that is presented by this magazine.
Deconstruction. They have enough reputation to have the ability to hide the mast head The main Image is the 3 members of “blink
presuming that its so popular people will know its name by just certain 182” Neither member is subjected to an in
words. Giving the audience a sense of owning something exclusive. superior role they are all interlinked all in
front of the masthead. All three of the
The main title relates heavily to the members are looking directly into the
main image, its pointing out the audience, the member to the right is even
band and bringing attention straight doing a classic rock hand gesture, almost
to the main image. Its position has trying to relate to the audience, creating a
been cleverly placed to do this. It relationship with them, it would also grab
also is bring attention to the “world their attention giving that sense of
exclusive” offer this magazine has “someone is watching them”.
to show and is withholding from the
rest of the world. Giving the
audiences a sense of having the
power to read something no-one The colours of the magazine seem to be
else in the world has read before linked with the colour scheme of what the
giving them a sense of exclusivity band is wearing, note the drummer is
and excitement, making the wearing blue, the singer black and the
audience want to buy this guitarist wearing dashes of red. Blue tends
magazine. Its almost as if this to be the main colour to stand out on this
magazine is rewarding its readers magazine away from the traditional almost
by giving them this information stereotypical red, this could cause the
trying to bring back more first time audience to question why they have done
readers. this and look at the writing inside the
strange almost alien colours. Red has been
used to instantly draw your attention to
Here they are showing a their main addition in this magazine its
freebie something to “seal The inferior and miniscule image highlighting the main band. Also to be
the deal” the public likes compared to the main image suggests noted it has also been used selectively to
free things and this is giving At the bottom of the magazine bring attention to offers and “special”
the Nergals story is one inferior to the
away posters but also giving they have chosen to put a lot of things in this magazine.
“blink 182” story, although it is a very
it a sense of exclusivity by information that the magazine
catching story with the word “cancer” its
selectively using the word “ is withholding from the main
relating to its audiences causing a
special” too really make the cover, its teasing the audiences
relationship of human sympathy to
audience feel like they are making them want to buy the
develop and will make the audience
really getting something magazine to read on about their
want to read the full story.
good. exclusive, in-depth stories that
only this magazine has.

3. The main headline, is a completely different colour from the rest of the The mast head has been placed behind the
Magazine sub headlines or sell lines. Its black with a gold trimming giving it the main image, implying that the magazine
Deconstruction sense of it having its own thing, its special and deserves something has such confidence in its readers ability to
different and exclusive . This would want to make the audience look into just know which magazine it is by just
it and see what is so special about this story that it has a “league of its looking at a few letters, this gives the
These are all sell lines they own” audience the feel that the magazine is so
are giving he audience a famous it can do this, giving a sense of
whole plethora of stories exclusivity to this magazine, making the
that this magazine has to public want to own such a first-class
offer, it makes the audience magazine.
want to read all of these
exclusive stories. It also
appeals to the wider public, Johnny Depp is placed selectively and
if for any reason they don’t cleverly, he is placed over the mast head
like Johnny Depp, the other making the audience think that such a
stories it has to offer could popular magazine like “rolling stone”
satisfy their pallet of thinks that he is superior to the name of
informational needs. These the magazine and has the status to cover
sub headings all seem to up most of their identity that this will
share the same colour make the audience see how exclusive and
scheme of just a plain gold, special this magazine is and make them
although this does give a want to buy it.
sense of richness due to the
connotations and
stereotype of the colour
gold, they all share the
colour losing that Colour scheme tends to be: Gold,
specialness to the main White and black, a very neutral
headline that is a but also very exclusive and upper
completely different colour This just shows how wide and vast this magazine’s class colours giving the audience
and giving it all of the lost audience actually is, ranging from political the sense of class of this magazine
exclusiveness of the columnists to rock ‘n’ roll superstars. It shows the and too just have this magazine in
subheadings magazine has a wide range of stories, it gives the your hands will give you a sense of
audience the sense of “if this magazine doesn’t pride. This a would be a main
have the story no-one will”. Its story base is huge selling point of this magazine the
and its readers are rewarded from that by the feeling of Exclusivity.
specialness of the stories and time dedicated to
that making the audience want to buy this
magazine