Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
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XXL Magazine targets young, urban hip-hop fans. The cover features Kanye West wearing stereotypical hip-hop attire like a leather jacket and large chains. His image is split down the middle with the words "love" and "hate" emphasizing the mixed perceptions fans have of him. The bold typography is designed to grab readers' attention and the short descriptive text keeps the content fast-paced to match the target demographic's lifestyle.
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Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
XXL Magazine targets a young, urban audience interested in hip-hop culture. The magazine cover features Kanye West, a stereotypical black male hip-hop artist immediately recognizable by their demographic. West maintains an air of superiority by wearing sunglasses while looking directly at the camera. The photograph and text on the cover reinforce themes of duality and conflicting emotions towards West through its reflection and use of "LOVE" and "HATE" in bold text.
Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
XXL Magazine targets a young, urban audience interested in hip-hop culture. The magazine cover features Kanye West, a stereotypical black male hip-hop artist immediately recognizable by their demographic. West maintains an air of superiority by wearing sunglasses while looking directly at the camera. The magazine uses bold fonts and short phrases to draw attention and match the fast pace of the music industry and readers' lives. Elements of West's outfit, large chain, and the magazine design reinforce stereotypes of the hip-hop genre and culture to appeal to their target audience.
Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
XXL Magazine targets a young, urban audience interested in hip-hop culture. The magazine's front cover features Kanye West, a recognizable black male hip-hop artist. West maintains an aura of superiority by wearing sunglasses while looking directly at the camera. The photograph of West is reflected across the middle of the cover, possibly representing a split personality. West's clothing, chains, and sunglasses align with stereotypes of black male hip-hop artists, appealing to XXL's readers. The magazine's typography and language are designed to draw readers in with an exclusive story told by Kanye West himself.
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Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
XXL Magazine targets a young, urban audience interested in hip-hop culture. The magazine cover features Kanye West, a stereotypical black male hip-hop artist immediately recognizable by their demographic. West maintains an air of superiority by wearing sunglasses while looking directly at the camera. The magazine uses bold fonts and short phrases to draw attention and match the fast pace of the music industry and readers' lives. Elements of West's outfit, large chain, and the magazine design reinforce stereotypes of the hip-hop genre and culture to appeal to their target audience.
Front Cover Analysis - XXL Magazine
XXL Magazine targets a young, urban audience interested in hip-hop culture. The magazine's front cover features Kanye West, a recognizable black male hip-hop artist. West maintains an aura of superiority by wearing sunglasses while looking directly at the camera. The photograph of West is reflected across the middle of the cover, possibly representing a split personality. West's clothing, chains, and sunglasses align with stereotypes of black male hip-hop artists, appealing to XXL's readers. The magazine's typography and language are designed to draw readers in with an exclusive story told by Kanye West himself.
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Cover analysis
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Front cover for NME magazine
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Presentation1
The magazine uses an informal tone and inclusive language like "we" and "you guys" to make readers feel part of a community and engage with the stories on a personal level. Color choices of red, black, and white coincide with the UK flag to appeal to a British audience interested in domestic bands. Coverlines use attention-grabbing phrases and additional band logos to draw readers in and convey a feeling of abundance and exclusivity for the special first edition issue.
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Cover analysis
The magazine cover uses red and black colors throughout to signal its rock genre focus. The large masthead in the top left identifies it as Q Magazine, while additional text lines promote the magazine's content and popular artists. Centered below is the word "rocks" in red to further highlight the genre. The back image depicts Cheryl Cole, intended to attract male audiences. Together these visual elements clearly brand the magazine and aim to persuade potential customers within the rock music category.
Nme analysis
The document summarizes key elements of the cover of music magazine NME. It notes that the large masthead in the top left corner establishes it as a well-known publication. The main image features singer Lana Del Rey, who would appeal to the target male audience aged 17-30. Her pose and accessories provide symbolic meaning and intrigue readers. Bold colorful typography and lighting are used to draw attention to important articles and provide insight into the cover story subject's personality. Color schemes and additional images and text throughout also aim to attract and engage the magazine's target readership.
Magazine Analysis
The document summarizes the key elements of a magazine cover design. It describes the cover photo subject using direct address, with bold eye makeup appealing to readers aged 25-30. The masthead font is clean with a single capital letter, making it catchy and memorable. The strapline suggests the magazine contains different genres, appealing to a wide readership. The relatively low cover price of £3.99 also includes a link to the magazine's website, likely appealing to younger online readers. A pull quote from an exclusive interview reveals an imperfect side to the cover subject. The main cover line names the famous singer in the photo. A humorous secondary line and mention of a "new Simon Cowell" aim to intrigue readers into
Textual Analysis Music Genre
The document summarizes two magazine covers featuring Kanye West. The GQ magazine cover positions West in a suit to represent the magazine's focus on wealth, luxury lifestyle, and class. It uses formal language as its target audience is well-educated readers. The VIBE magazine cover features West with an intimidating "screw face" look, representative of hip hop stereotypes. It uses bright colors for a casual look, appealing to its target audience of working-class hip hop fans. Both magazines effectively communicate their genre and intended readership through their visual presentation and choice of celebrity cover subject.
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Teenage girls are often interested in boy bands and male artists featured on pop magazine covers. Placing images of these artists on the left side catches readers' eyes first and instantly persuades them to buy the magazine. The magazine promises to reveal the artists' secrets, which intrigues readers and lures them into the purchase. Hiding the price until after drawing readers in with the cover prevents the cost from affecting their buying decision.
Question 2
The document analyzes data on the readership demographics of several music magazines, including age, gender, class, and ethnicity. It shows that the magazines generally had majority male readerships between ages 17-35 from middle-class backgrounds. NME in particular skewed more male. In response, the author chose to aim their own magazine at a wider audience of both genders ages 16-24. While following the trend of focusing on male artists, this risks limiting the appeal to female readers. Representation of minority ethnicities was also generally low across the magazines analyzed.
Media CW Planning: Mood Board
The mood board shows various rock music magazines that were chosen because the author's magazine is also in the rock genre. The mood board provides layout designs that could work well for the author's magazine. All the magazines have a main image on the front cover to attract readers' attention, and the author will likely do the same. They also all include the magazine name in a masthead, which the author will replicate. The color schemes used in the magazines, such as black, red, and white, are bold colors that can grab attention and indicate the genre, which may work for the author's target audience of 16-18 year olds. The magazines also include cover stories to encourage purchasing, and the author will list cover stories
NME Magazine Front Page Analysis
The front cover of the magazine uses bright colors like blue, red, and white to draw attention. The background features the American flag, matching the description of the featured artist Lana Del Ray as the "American Icon." The layout places most content on the right page with side stories on the left featuring artists' names and quotes. Advertisements on the left include images of posters and a description to draw readers' attention, promising free posters inside.
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The document summarizes the design choices made for the cover of a magazine prototype. It includes a central image intended to represent the indie/rock genre through colors and style similarities to other magazines. The image challenges conventions by using objects instead of human models. The target audience is described as being between ages 16-24 based on research of similar magazines.
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The document discusses how the author's media product, a rock music magazine called "Element", uses and challenges conventions of real rock music magazines. It follows many conventions such as having bands mentioned on the cover, consistent fonts, and claiming an exclusive story. However, it challenges conventions by having an album review on the contents page and using a female model on the cover rather than a male-focused image. The target audience would be teenagers and young adults interested in rock music. A company like Kerrang! magazine would be suited to distribute the magazine given its similar audience and genre. The author aimed to attract this audience through the use of dark colors associated with rock music and an eye-catching cover image.
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The document summarizes a student's media magazine project. It discusses how the magazine follows conventions of real rock magazines in its layout, design and content. This includes having bands mentioned on the cover, an organized contents page with sections, consistent fonts, and claiming an interview is "exclusive" to draw readers. It also notes how the magazine represents its target audience through stereotypical imagery of the model on the cover. The student learned skills like photo editing and how to construct a magazine to appeal to its intended audience.
Media evaluation powerpoint.
The document summarizes a student's media magazine project. It discusses how the magazine follows conventions of real rock magazines in its layout, design elements, and content. This includes using typical fonts, mentioning bands on the cover, and including sections like reviews. It also challenges some conventions by including a review on the contents page. The document discusses how the magazine represents its target audience as young, white rock music fans. It would appeal to both males and females in their late teens to early twenties. The intended distributor would be similar magazines like Kerrang, which target this same audience.
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The document analyzes the front cover of the September 2009 edition of NME magazine featuring Dizzee Rascal. It discusses various design elements of the cover including the masthead, header, sell lines, main image of Dizzee Rascal, main cover line, barcode, footer, pull quote, background design, and flasher. It also provides background information on NME magazine and analyzes the target audience as predominantly male, aged 16-24, from social classes A, B, and C1.
Music magazines
This document contains analyses of 7 different magazine covers. For magazine cover #1, it discusses using different fonts to convey genre and a price tag to provide details. Cover #2 uses a large black masthead to catch the eye and targets classical rock fans aged 20-50. Cover #3 features tattoos on Eminem to show his character and personality, with him covering most of the cover to focus on him. Cover #4 uses a close-up image of Kanye West with direct eye contact and strict color scheme. Cover #5 has the magazine logo in the corner above the main image and uses red, black, and white colors consistently. Cover #6 discusses using Rihanna on the cover of Billboard magazine
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The contents page of Vibe magazine establishes its professional yet urban style through its layout and use of Kanye West as the central image. It follows conventions like including page numbers but also features brief descriptions of articles to intrigue readers. The simple color scheme, traditional font choices, and moody photo of Kanye reflect the magazine's target audience of sophisticated urban men aged 16-30. The page maintains the Vibe brand through consistent use of its logo and focuses attention on Kanye to represent the magazine's genre of music content.
Front Cover Analysis
The magazine targets men aged 17-30 from social class ABC1 interested in rock, indie, rap and hip-hop music. It typically features information on music festivals, tours, clubs and concerts. Sales are around 200,000 copies per week, and the website receives 5 million users monthly.
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- 1. XXL MAGAZINE
- 2. Audience and Representation XXL Magazine is a monthly magazine devoted to covering news and current events in the hip- hop community. The magazine’s target demographic is mainly young, urban followers of hip-hop culture.
- 3. Representation The cover features Kanye West – a stereotypical, black, male, hip-hop artist, immediately recognisable by XXL’s target demographic. Although by looking directly at the camera Kanye is establishing a relationship with the reader he maintains the perception of superiority by wearing sunglasses. The photograph has been reflected across the middle of the cover – this has connotations of a split personality/alter- ego, reinforcing the ‘love’, ‘hate’ across the image.
- 4. Mise-En-Scene The model (Kanye West) wearing a leather jacket, chains and sunglasses which all have connotations of a stereotypical black, male, hip-hop artist and is a ‘look’ that would appeal to many of XXL’s readers. His chain is oversized which reflects his life- style, fame, talent, ego.
- 5. Typography The same monochrome font has been used throughout. ‘THE EXCLUSIVE STORY’ is in bold to draw the attention of the reader to the puff as the story is ‘EXCLUSIVE’ and is therefore more appealing to the reader. ‘LOVE’, ‘HATE’ is the largest font on the cover except from the title, it is also in bold. This grabs the reader’s attention and draws their eyes to the image. It also emphasises the feelings most people have towards Kanye West. ‘KANYE WEST’ is also larger than the puffs to ensure readers immediately recognise that it is Kanye West on the cover. Three word puffs and short, punchy sentences make the magazine sound fast paced like the music industry and most of their audience’s lives, this keeps readers interested.
- 6. magazine. The title block is white against a red background. The two colours interact with eachother and the white writing stands out. Typography Continued…
- 7. Language The anchorage text links the central image to the topics of the article about Kanye West. Words like ‘SPECIAL’ and ‘EXCLUSIVE’ remind readers that it is not an ordinary issue, this makes the magazine more appealing. ‘BY THE MAN HIMSELF’ also draws the readers attention.