The document analyzes 3 music magazine covers: 1) The first cover features a man in clean clothes and wearing an expensive watch to portray wealth, though his glasses and beard give a rough appearance. 2) The second cover features a singer towering over landmarks to show she will be more iconic, wearing minimal clothing to stand out. 3) The third cover uses a red and white color scheme and features a tattooed man with a gun to his head, implying something bad has happened or is not right, to warn readers of violent contents.

1. Media work- George Moffitt
Analysis of 3 music magazine covers
The glasses and beard
give him a ruff and
shady aperience but The title is done in a
also from looking at the bright colour to stand out
more linking into the
whole image we can tell
centre image and how
he is not this and that
he is a smart and clean the person in the image
man because of his is trying to stand out to
everyone else.
clean clothes and big
fancy watching which
also shows he has a lot From the head titles on the front
of wealth behind him. page we can tell that this
magazine is for older readers
because they involve talking
about sex which is an older age
group discussion point, with this
it is letting customers know
exactly what the target market
The word swagger is parallel is.
to the characters hand and
its jester so this may mean With this category placed on the
that this is what the jester front next to the image this may
means that he has swagger. impose that the centre character
is involved in these sort of
activities and that the magazines
The hand jester from a distant looks like he is swearing but articles go with his life.
when revealed closely we can see that he is simply showing
of his wealth or doing a different jester with a different
meaning enticing the reader in.

2. Free written at the top stating
free music makes any customer
want to buy it more because
they are getting more for there
money.
The title of the magazine
second biggest item on the
front cover to give more
importance like a hierarchy. Colour scheme is matching all
over, making the magazine
stand out more.
(black,white,red and grey)
The main image is a singer
“Florence and the machine”
towering over many huge important
and iconic landmarks, which the She is wearing minimal clothing
magazine is showing that she is showing that she is different
going to be better than these places from all the rest standing out
and as iconic. more. Dress which is almost a
bikini and bright red hair to
stand out.
List of all the other big stars
included in the magazine

3. Above the title we have a sentence saying
“new ownership” this means things could
change or already have been, this will make
customers want to buy the magazine just to
see what's happening and will there
magazine be changing for good or bad.
All the font in white or red, this
is resemberling life or death,
red showing the colour which
is emphasized by the main
image of a gun to the head.
The main image has much going on
for one person, the main parts is the
gun to the head which states
something bad has happened or
something's not right. To add top that
the character has ruff facial hair to
give him a ruff look and tattoos all
over the body giving him a standing
Lots of violent and dangerous
out appearance scaring the public
words used in the context to
with the image. Closed eyes as in
warn the reader what the
thinking or wishing for something
contents is.
trying to avoid what is going on, and
inside the mag readers will find out
just what is going on.