This front cover of Billboard magazine features Ariana Grande. The pink color used throughout ties into Grande's image and appeals to the magazine's target female audience. The layout keeps the focus on Grande's image while providing just enough text in different fonts and sizes to promote the stories inside without overwhelming the cover.

1. BILLBOARD MUSIC MAGAZINE
FRONT COVER ANALYSIS
ARIANA GRANDE
CLARA BARROSO

2. The tittle of the magazine is Billboard and it is
taking most of the space on the side to fill up
the background where is not taking most of the
space from main artist. However, the side of the
image has been edited to be able to overlap the
model’s arm on top of the magazine’s
masthead. From the previous billboard front
cover this was a thing that the magazine has
done multiple times, so the Billboard target
audience are used to have the model on the
front cover overlapping with the magazine
masthead, which the magazine would still be
easy to identify that is a Billboard music
magazine.Billboard are also changing the colour
of the masthead. The masthead is mainly
identified by being all in black, but they are
always changing depending on who’s on the
front cover. The colour pink connects to the
feminine and girly idea of the magazine issue.
The use of the pink on the masthead links with
the tone of pink on the nails and the lips of the
model, which are two different tones of pink.
This would link with the idea of this particular
issue being mainly aimed at females.
MASTHEAD

3. FULL BLEED IMAGE/
PRIMARY IMAGE
For this front cover for the Billboard magazine,
the model on the front cover for the full bleed
image is Ariana Grande. She is one of the most
known R&B artist by her very talented voice
and from her recent album ‘Dangerous
Woman’. This magazine issue was released a
few months later after her newest album being
released, so this magazine may have links and
connections to her newest album, as raising
awareness to her fans which would be similar
age to the magazine target audience. He music
attracts mainly teenage girls and it’s exactly the
same with this magazine target audience, this
would be seen as a way of the company helping
the artist to promote her music and the artist
herself promoting the magazine by all the,
photo shoot done on for this magazine issue
and also by the use of the social media as the
artist would promote the magazine’s company
through her social media accounts. Ariana
Grande is known for being a lover of the colour
pink so the use of the colour pink on the front
cover links with the uses and gratifications of
the magazine with the idea of the target
audience knowing the artist already and the
use of the colour pink on it, by the idea of
seeking information about the cover model.

4. MISE-EN-SCENE
This shot is a mid shot and it was captured more to
the side to give a clear idea and enough space to
place the masthead next to it after. This shot was
also captured as an eye level shot, as the model
looks at the audience eye, which is easier to get
the audience attention (as during capturing the
shot the model would be looking directly at the
camera which in this perspective would be the
audience eyes). The idea that she’s wrapped in
white towels, gives the reference of her just
finishing of having a bath/shower. However, she
also does have her make-up done so the white
towels can just refer to the idea of her being
portrayed in a ‘sexy’ way, especially to the male
audience. The idea of being seen as ‘sexy’ still
follows the idea of the way she’s holding the
sunglasses and the idea their white too, linking to
the white towels. The idea of the make-up being
done refers of her own identity with the use of the
pink and how that portrays her music by
identifying her fans mainly teenage girls. THE use
of all the jewellery would link to the idea of her
standing out and giving ‘bling’ as her surroundings
seems to be in high class place, just like you would
see an R&B artist being represented on a front
cover magazine just like any other.

5. The layout of the front cover is very simple and
doesn’t include too much information on the
cover lines, just like on the previous front cover
magazine from Billboard, another way of the
audience identifying the magazine. This music
magazine incudes and music artist from
different variety of types of music and various
known music artists/ bands so that’s why it
follows a simple layout so once the front cover
is released all the audience attention from the
target audience is all on the cover model, as the
issue would be mainly be focused on the artist
that is on the front cover, so there wouldn’t
have to be much information added onto the
cover lines for the audience to read. The is also
not the need of mentioning the model’s/ artist
mane on the front cover as Billboard is a recent
magazine and Ariana Grande is a recent R&B
artist with a lot of success. On the layout of the
front page, the font of the masthead would
always be the same for all the front cover
magazines, so easy to identify the magazine
from all the other publishing music magazines.
The fonts used on the rest of the colour scheme
used on this specific front cover would link to
the layout of the image and also having links
with the cover model on the front cover.
LAYOUT

6. TYPOGRAPHY
As the typography of this front cover, its all
depending on the use of the different font
compared to the one for the masthead, so the
front page doesn’t all loo the same and it looks
a bit different and easier for the audience to
seek information from the small cover lines ( as
they have different fonts for a purpose.) There
is two different fonts used on the cover lines,
this so it makes it easier for the audience to
read the most important part of that cover line
and the additional information for that cover
line, which is shown on a different font. The
idea of the line ‘Viva la diva!’ is a reference to
Ariana Grande (the cover model) because of the
idea she is the most important thing on he front
cover, that’s one of the reasons why that
specific line is the biggest one on the whole
page. This recognised as typography by the idea
that all font size is all the same accept for that
one line which shows how much the audience
needs to look at it and making it as eye catching
as the full bleed image, this represents the big
importance of the that one line that is bigger
but still links to the primary cover line by the
use of the colour compared to the secondary
cover line.

7. The first primary cover line is the most
important cover line as on this front cover it has
a different colours compared to he secondary
one. The colours used was black and pink which
links to the use of the use of the use of the
colour pink on the masthead and on the full
bleed image. The primary cover line only
includes three little paragraphs with
information about what’s included inside the
magazine.
On the secondary cover line is bit different from
the primary cover line. The difference between
this one would be the use of the colours on the
font, which is in white and also added a bit of
pink, in connotation with the whole front cover
and the primary cover line. The use of these
cover lines is to give information about what
you would find on the contents page and on the
contents page, with all the information given
from most of the things that is included on this
specific issue, in a small brief paragraph.
PRIMARY/SEONDARY
COVER LINE

8. What register simply means, is the tone of the
magazine and what type of language is being
used to communicate with the audience (the
magazine with the primary and secondary
audience). The tone of language that is used on
the front cover is informal use of text on the
cover lines by the Billboard magazine having a
clear idea that their magazine audience is
teenagers, especially girls, so for a way for the
audience to use the magazine as part of their
identity on the uses and gratifications, the way
the magazine itself gives the information to the
audience would of have been in an informal
way, which would be a way of the audience
communicating with one another and
promoting the magazine further, not noticing
the audience itself would be promoting the
magazine and the magazine target audience
would get wider and bigger for the magazine
becoming even more know than what it already
is.
REGISTER