This magazine analysis discusses two music magazines featuring Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. The Katy Perry magazine uses warm colors like pink, black, and yellow that give it a summer vibe. Katy Perry is on the cover wearing a floral dress, and her name is in a bolder font to indicate she is the main story. The Lady Gaga magazine has a darker color scheme of black and grey that contrasts with her bright purple hair. Once again, the main image covers part of the masthead, and the larger font story about Lady Gaga shows she is the focus of the issue.

1. Music magazine analysis.
The main image is dominating the magazine
because it is covering part of the masthead, and
the text is surrounded around the image. When an
image is covering part of the masthead on a
magazine, this is usually ok because this means
that the magazine is popular and successful, so
having an image cover it lets people know it is
already a well recognised logo. The masthead has
a creative design with a variety of colours in a bold
font. It is nicely aligned at the top of the page.
There is no barcode, but under the masthead it
contains the date. The colour scheme used for this
magazine are the simple colours of pink, black and
yellow which are warm colours. The main
image, ‘Katy Perry’, is wearing a floral patterned
dress and is also covered in pink and yellow
sunflowers. This gives the magazine a summery
vibe, therefore we can see that this is a summer
issue. There are a variety of cover lines that give
us an insight on what each article in the magazine
is about. As Katy Perry is the main image, we
know that the main story will be about
her, especially as her name is in an increased
bolder font, standing out on the page.

2. This Billboard magazine compared to the
previous one of Katy Perry, we can see that
this one has a more professional look as it
contains more details. For example in this
magazine there is a barcode alongside the
date, the price and a website. It is always good
to include a website on magazines as this
gives the readers a chance to expand their
music knowledge through the internet as it
contains videos, audio tracks and more news
about artists. The colour scheme here works
well with a darker shade of colours; black and
grey, with the main image, ‘Lady
Gaga’, dressed in a black coat with bright
purple hair, this nicely contrasts against the
background. The masthead once again is
covered by the main image, giving the
appearance that this image is dominating. The
cover is simple with just the image of the artist
however, it works effectively as she has bright
hair which stands out and this brings attention.
There aren't too many cover lines which is a
good thing otherwise it would make the cover
look too cluttered and this can make readers
lose interest. We can tell straight away which
story is the most important as it is always in a
larger font and mainly associated with the
main picture.