Music magazine cover 5

This is an Uncut magazine. It is in black and white which suggests that it is an old music artist because black and white is less modern. It uses a small banner at the top of the page, which is a pug to let the audience know what is inside. In my opinion, I don’t like how the image is so high up because the text goes across his head, which in my opinion should be the main focus of the image.  The magazine has a barcode on which shows that it has being bought and sold in shops.

Also inside this barcode is a dateline and a price tag.  The masthead is in a large font and in a different colour to make it stand out to the audience, also it is san serif. The colour scheme of this magazine is red, black, white, and orange. This suggests that they have gone for an old fashioned theme, but also added a bit of colour in to attract more modern audiences. The magazine also uses direct address, with the model looking into the camera. This follows Winships theory of ‘the gaze’ which is meant to attract the audience (in this case women) to him. I don’t think that his body has been edited because the hair on hid chest and armpit are untidy, so I think they have gone for a natural look.  The artist has long, wavy hair, which could be a code and an indexical sign for rock music, because rock artists are usually stereotyped as having long hair to ‘rock out’ with. It also has a buzz word “Legend of the Lizard King” which could relate to his theme/genre style of music, this could also be his slogan.

There is a puff at the top left of the cover, which could also be used as a sell line to audiences. This is also a graphic to promote the magazine to get people to buy it. There are also 8 cover stories on the front which could also be used as pugs. I think that the magazine is intended for a female audience, because he is naked on the front and is doing a pose to try and attract the women.

Ideas I got from this magazine

·      Use a barcode

·      Don’t have image so high up

·      Use a slogan

·      Use alliteration

·      Have a subheading