The document analyzes the front cover of a magazine. It discusses various design elements like the masthead, cover lines, images, and datelines. The cover uses bright colors and headlines to attract attention and convey the magazine's focus on music, celebrities, and popular culture stories that would interest its target audience. Images of famous rappers like Eminem are prominently featured to draw readers in with profiles of influential music figures. Cover lines use questions, lists, and hype to intrigue readers and encourage sales. Together, these visual and textual elements are designed to effectively promote the content of the magazine.

1. Front Cover Analysis
Ed Tyce

2. Tag Line: What the magazine
sells itself on. It informs the
Masthead: The audience of what the Main Image: The main
masthead used is a magazine specialises in. image covers over 2/3’s
bright eye-catching of the page. The image
green colour. It’s bold is also placed in front of
font and large size the masthead. This
ensures it catchers the catches the audience’s
audiences eye. eye even more so. In
the image he’s seen to
be wearing ‘smart’
clothes. Not only does
Main Cover Line:
this tell the audience
Main cover line
more about the
also has a bright
register. But also goes
green headline.
with the ‘clean’ style of
Also includes,
the magazine.
‘Bright Future’,
making it sound
exciting to its
audience.
Cover Line: Cover line
in a yellow font in a
pink text box. Again,
Cover Line: Making
influencing the gaze of
it sound essential
the audience.
by saying, ‘Why it’s
all the rage’. It also
labels, ‘Blackberry’,
a popular mobile
company. Cover Line: Cover line
entices the audience by
entitling it ‘the
Dateline and Barcode: ‘Ultimate’ spring break’
Essential on the cover of
a magazine. Also
informs the audience of
the price. It also has the
price in two different
currencies.

3. Skyline: The skyline uses a
Masthead: The masthead topical rhetorical question of, ‘Is
used is a vibrant red colour, 1998 Rap’s last classic year?’
which also fades to black. This ensures that their target
This contrasts immensely to audience will want to read the
the light toned grey magazine to interpret their
background. views on the subject.
Main Image: The main
Main Cover Line:
image features
The main cover line
Eminem, one of the
is advertising a
most famous rappers
revolutionary story
ever. It features him
on the troubled
central of the page,
personal life of
standing in a striking
Eminem. A figure
pose with his arms
idolised by readers
crossed. He is also
of Vibe magazine.
wearing a black tank
This is a huge
top which makes him
selling point and
stand out from the
guarantees large
background, but also
quantities of sales.
amplifying his tattoo’s
which exclaim attitude
and his masculinity.
Cover Line: This cover line features,
‘The 50 Hottest Rap Blogs…’ Through
quantification, this again entices the Cover Line: This cover line is asking
reader to pick the magazine and read the audience who they believe is the
to compare with their own beliefs. best rapper ever. This not only excites
the audience, but it also gives the
audience to interact with the
magazine and its producers.