7/27/2019 [Media] Evaluation of Three Music Magazines

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Annie-May Dundas

Evaluation of music magazine covers

The magazine Rolling Stones specifically

focuses on main pop & rock icons. This magazinesmast-head is dominantly blocked by the

magazines medium-close up (slightly verging on

long shot) cover image of Amy Winehouse. The

fact that the image overlaps the mast-head

suggests the intended demographical group

(probably aged 16-25+) will be drawn to the

image rather than the title of the magazine. The

magazine plug isnt a bribe nor offer, however the

Giuliani: Worse than Bush immediately shows

rebellion In the sense that whatever thecontents of the topic are about; it is outspoken

and bad. This naturally intrigues the audience to

want to buy the magazine.

The barcode and cover lines are placed in a

very unusual way. Due to the barcode and the

main cover line & cover lines being on the left

the way that the marketers would shelve it. It will be a magazine that is hard to recognise

Therefore a possibility that not many people will want to buy it. However, due to the main cover line

being Amy Winehouse, the reader should be able to subconsciously recognise her name without

having to see the whole thing (which then leads to people buying it, so the magazine did have goodintentions to lay it out the way they have done so). The Strapline consists of all the titles of the

music icons that I presume will be featured in this issue. The colours of the font have been depicted

from Amy Winehouses blue bra, her thick black eyeliner and black hair & the red shirt from her

tattoo.The magazine Classic Fm has a very crisp,

clean mast-head. The masthead covers the top

of Myleenes head; however it doesnt dominate

the medium close-up image of her that is the

featured image. The plug is placed in the very

top, left-hand corner of the magazine with a

selling bribe of a Free CD & also another freeguide inside the magazine when the magazine is

purchased. This magazine has a puff which is a

statistical which has a psychological impact

Should the reader be psychologically intrigued to

buy this magazine because of feeling that it

becomes theirfavourite magazine? The colours of

the font stem from the colours of the dominant

free CD at the bottom left of the magazine (I

didnt have to point that out, its hard to miss).

Black, white & (dominantly) red. The cover linesare very submissive to the main cover line

which is a quote from an article in the magazine.

This attracts the demographical (middle aged)

The masthead of this rock themed magazine

is very obvious yet slightly disrupted by the

feature image of the Green Day band. The

main cover line is the name of the band with

a little quote about their album; this main

cover line becomes a mini-masthead itself dueto its brightness and semi-dominance of the

page! The plug is fixated in the bottom right

hand corner along with the barcode. The plug

itself has an unusually large sized font to

enthuse the number of free posters which are

included in this magazine. Usually an audience

would expect to see the number 3 because

its someone installed into our expectations

The fact that its five gives a bonus type

feeling to the buyer. The strapline is a list ofdifferent bands featured In this issues

magazine this appeals to a range of people in

the demographic group of adolescents, who

perhaps do NOT like Green Day but like

Fightstar. The cover lines are all in capital

letters and mainly followed by an exclamation

The barcode seems to be embedded in the magazine with all these big cover lines and

bright colours however due to the dark backgrounds the white dominantly stands out. I

think the reason for it being on the right wasnt thought through because most of the eye-

catching things that would be on show on the shelf so the price would not be there making

it hard for the buyer to know; However they couldve cunningly and deliberately put the

barcode on the right knowing that with enough eye-catching and exclusive cover lines and

images, the buyer would want to buy it no matter what the price is; rather than someone