This cover analysis summarizes three different magazine covers: 1) Dazed and Confused featuring French house duo Daft Punk dressed in contrasting white and black clothing on a brown background. The cover promotes their new album as a new dimension to reflect the 3D film they composed for. 2) NME featuring the virtual band Gorillaz with two characters drugging their creator, implying rising up. The cover is busy with blurbs and artist names appealing to the magazine's demographic. 3) Rolling Stone featuring grunge band Nirvana's frontman in a suit with the tagline "Success doesn't suck", implying his views have changed. The cover also highlights other cultural/political articles for

1. Cover Analysis This is a copy of the latest dazed and confused issue featuring Daft Punk, a French house duo. Having looked at various previous covers the only common convention I can see is the masthead remains in the same place. The background in this is a brown colour which lends itself to the white masthead as It makes it stand out along with the two artists who are dressed in white and black contrasting clothing which also makes them stand out from the background. Their attire on this cover is reminiscent of a conductors and when couple with the word “encore” makes it seem that they have composed something along with buzzwords like “compose”. This issue has the article they’re in as 3D which is due to the film who's soundtrack they composed being 3D which is why they use the phrase “Another Dimension”. They are the only thing on the front cover apart from the list of artists on the bottom but because of the size of the font and the placing on the cover, they are relying heavily on daft punk to sell this magazine because the other artists names would be covered in a magazine stand.

2. Cover Analysis This is a copy of the English music magazine NME and features 2 members the virtual band Gorillaz as well the man who created them and sings the vocals in the band. Having looked at various previous covers the trending colour scheme for the magazine is Red, White and black. The cover shows the two characters of the band Damon created drugging him which implies that they’re rising up against him. Another Convention of NME is the cover is pretty full of things going on. There is lots of text that stand out against the brown background along with exclamatory statements like “reality Blurs!”. This is both a pun because Damon is in the band blur and because the two cartoon characters have “come to life” in the same room as him and questions posed that may want to make the potential customer read the magazine. As usual, the barcode is on the bottom right. The cover also has other artists names hat feature in this instalment and this is another convention used by NME. They use bands at the top of the magazine that may appeal more to the magazines demographic and at the bottom more “popular” bands on the bottom, interestingly they’ve put the barcode above which is unusual.

3. Cover Analysis This is a copy of the American rock music magazine Rolling Stone featuring the grunge rock band Nirvana. The music also strays into other areas such as politics and popular culture. Having looked at various previous covers I see that the articles that could be deemed important in the magazine tend to be the same colour as the masthead. The Cover features Nirvana who’s frontman was known for not letting the money go to his head. He also didn’t like the corporate side of music but here he is wearing a suit and it has the tagline “Success doesn’t suck” which implies his views have changed. Another Convention of Rolling stone is that the cover also features other articles covering politics and culture in case the customer doesn’t want to just know about music and the barcode is in the bottom right corner, whereas now the barcode is no longer on the front.