The document analyzes the front covers of three music magazines - Q Music magazine, NME magazine, and Smash Hits magazine - based on their typography, layout, language, color, camera work, mise-en-scene, and mode of address. For Q Music magazine, Adele is prominently featured on the cover page with a formal layout and language to represent the magazine. For NME magazine, Rihanna is shown diagonally across the cover with minimal colors and a long camera shot. Smash Hits magazine has a cluttered layout with 11 celebrities, uses pink colors and sans serif font to target teenage girls, and features both music stars and movie stars to reflect its transition to a lifestyle magazine.

1. 3 Front Covers
By Emma Beveridge

2. Typography
The style fonts used a normal basic
‘everyday font’. This font has been
used because the style of font isn’t
really important, as long as its
engages the right audience readers.
The job is done.
Layout
The layout is ordered. The main
image(of Adele) has been placed on
the right side and takes most of the
page up. The rest of the space has
been used by the title and other pugs
and certificates.
Language
The type of language used is on
the front cover is very formal,
because Q music magazine is
presented as a formal. Even
though its about music.
Colour
The effect the colours have are that on
the front cover are minimal. The colour
mainly is focused on Adele and the
title. The rest is black and white.
Camera Work
The shot types and angles
within Q music magazine’s
front cover is a close up to
maybe empathies the facial
expressions on Adele.
Mise-En-Scene
The props, costumes and settings that have
been used is the props are very minimal
and the costumes of Adele her hair seems
to have been blown back by a fan or wind
mechanism to show who she is and setting
seems as if the image was taken on a photo
shoot and then printed on Q magazine
cover. Its very formal image of Adele and a
good celebrity to present music.
Mode of address
The magazine speaks to the
audience because Adele is the face
of Q music magazine. As when
readers see Adele they
automatically think Music because
that is what Adele is famous for and
is her occupancy.

3. Typography
The style fonts used is Pink bold to
empathise the name, NME as well the
bold writing down on the left side.
Apart from that the typography is
white or black.
Layout
The layout is very ordered, as
Rihanna, is across the cover in a
diagonal , forward position with words
around her and over her.
Language
The type of language used is very
media-like language because they want
to be seen as a music Media magazine,
so media words just pop in on the
magazine to show its media based.
Colour
The effect the colours have are that on
the front cover is very minimal in
colour, as Pink, Black, white and grey.
Black, White and grey are on the other
end of the colour spectrum. So to mix
with pink is very unusual.
Camera Work
The shot types and angles within NME
front cover is a long shot because you
can see below Rihanna’s waist.
Mise-En-Scene
The props, costumes and settings that have
been used is the props as the bird on
Rihanna’s shoulder could suggest or
connote ‘bad’ because Rihanna can be bad
icon, due to some of her songs and her as
an artist. costumes is that Rihanna is
wearing a black top and the setting doesn’t
really suggest anything apart from its been
taking while in the making of the cover.
Mode of address
The magazine speaks to the
audience because the props(the bird
on her shoulder) and colours(dark)
connotes ‘bad’. Rihanna has made
some songs that connotes bad, such
as Rude Boy.

4. Layout and images
The layout is cluttered because there is
a lot going on this front cover. There are
11 people being advertised on this
cover. The number of images suggest
that this magazine is targeted at the
less educated and prefer looking at
images, to reading. This magazine I a
typically pre teens. The people on the
cover are all ‘celebrities’ but not all of
them are famous for music related
achievements. For example.. This issue
of Smash Hits. It features movie stars as
well as pop stars. This shows the
demographics of the magazine and how
quickly the magazine has changed from
a mainly music based magazine to a
lifestyle one.
Typography
The font of this magazine is Sans
Serif which has a large typed face.
This connotes childishness. For
example the ‘INSIDE THE MENTAL
MIND’ is in capitals and is making it
seemed to have be shouted and
very in your face.
Colour
The colours that have been used are
two tones of pink, a bright pink, a dark
pink and a baby pink. This gives the
connotations of girli, feminine and
happy. The effects this colours have is
that it creates a world for the typically
teenager, that they can be in control of
their own world, just while reading
Smash Hits.
Language
The language used on this cover is very
simple and quite limited. There are a few
words allocated around the page, which
suggests that the contents is intellectual
or sophisticated and the audience or
readers may be less educated due to the
use of alliteration of ‘MY MENTAL MIND’.
Camera Work
The shot types and angles within
Smash Hits front cover are very
mid shots because its just the top
half of people(just heads or just to
waist). Also a male is on the cover
because that’s what a group of
teenaged girls talk about.
Mise-En-Scene
The props, costumes and settings
that have been used is costumes
connote ‘club, pink and girlie
outfits’. Outfits that females
teenagers would wear. The setting
could connote a female poster as
they layout could have been set
out that way to engage its
audience of teenaged girls to
purchase.
Mode of address
The magazine speaks to the audience because
there are young males and that what a females
dream of. There idol on the front cover of their
favourite magazine. So they used this to their
advantage to entice their audience and the
layout as well its good thing to help with
enticing.