Have evaluated 3 music magazine covers

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Evaluation of Three Cover Magazines

2. Plug
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It’s attracting you as it’s gold
and its something big for the
magazine to advertise.
Furthermore it is also significant
because of shelving placed on the
right side when you buy it will be
revealed. As the colour is
contrasting with the colour
scheme. However it has been cut
of on the side a little bit, which
should have been fixed , goes
against the rules.
The artist they placed on the front
cover of the magazine has been
captured looking at the reader/
audience. This intensifies the
magazine as they are directly
looking at you, this helps the
magazine grabs the readers
attention. To also support this idea
they have intensified her eye
make-up, which make it bold, sharp
and stand out from the rest of her
face. I want to also add, this could
attract men as she is acting
seductive place her finger next to
her lips and she is looking at the
reader intensely.
Cover Lines
I like the idea as they
verbally wrote that
‘Adele blows us away’
this is actually portrayed
physically by her hair as
it is been blown away.
Mast- head
The mast-head is big and
bold and it is presented
behind Adele’s head this
suggests that its is well
known, so they don’t have
to go and flash it around.
Also that the colour is bold
and sharp and it attracts
you as its in the corner
where everyone will notify
when you go into a shop.
Furthermore that colour is
used all the way as a
colour scheme through the
magazine.
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Barcode
Puff
I would say it’s a puff as
Little tastes of Information on the cover, like They have placed the there is use of another
snippets which advertise the content. They barcode in the right level of engagement they
position and it’s the right point arrows, to seem to
made well-known peoples name
size as it’s visible to the tell you to turn the page.
larger, furthermore follow the colour scheme
target audience.
from the title of the magazine.
The Q magazine is presenting
direct address with the reader
another way of attracting you.
They use the word; ‘you’ve’ and
they are being inclusive about it
also the use of ‘us’. Uniting
everyone together, making you
want to read it again.

3. Masthead
Cover Price/
Barcode and
Publish date
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As the magazine is so well
known, they don’t really have to
reveal the name of the
magazine. Also it’s a bold
colour from the background
which makes it stand out and
catch the eye. Moreover this
magazine seems to capture
young new artist and reflected
at fans, obviously also young
adults and adults as there is
some language some
teenagers maybe wouldn’t
understand
In this magazine there
is no barcode and no
cover price, which is
unusual they are
breaking the
conventions. They
have advertised
themselves online and
displayed the publish
date and article
number.
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Use a famous person to attract
the reader and have small cover
lines to advertise the content.
Cover Lines
They are revealing information
what is going to be in the
magazine, advertising there
content in a different way. They
have followed through the
colour scheme and made the
important information a different
colour. I have also noticed that
they seem to like the use of
Capitals when writing there
cover lines, I think this because
they are trying to make it stand
out and bolder, because not
every magazine uses this, also
emphasize the words.
Layout
They have consider where to place him, the
there is a good amount of use in cover lines to
attract the reader. Furthermore they have no
space apart from this small boarder to follow
the alignment and nothing is chopped of from
the side.
They use questions to
attract you, to see what the
answer is. It also seems to
be a rhetorical question, to
question the reader. They
use this repetitively as they
have used it in the cover
lines as well, this is
portrayed as an
imperative, with the who’s
and what’s, you are start
questioning yourself.
They seem to in all of the magazine , a key
thing to catch the reader’s attention is a
perfect shot of intense eye’s staring at
you, they are quite seductive and naughty, as
they do grab hold of something like here he
grabbed his chain. In the magazine before
she grabbed hold of her lips.

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Main Cover line
Masthead
They have used some
creative funky text and this
has followed by the change
of text. furthermore the use
of an exclamation mark
suggests a big
statement, which involves
another way of attracting
your reader.
The masthead seems
to be outlined and
have a black
shadow, which makes
it stand out from the
background and this
makes the masthead
stronger and sharp
but a side of
aggression. Everyone
seems to like the
colour red, I guess its
because it’s a bold
colour and
emphasises the text
, also could symbolise
anything. Like here; it
describes naughty as
this idea is being
supported by the
image of Miley
Cyrus, she is sticking
her tongue out and
she is naked.
Cover Lines
The cover lines seem to
decrease with importance
by the size of the text, this
creates a great affect on
the magazine and it is a
part of breaking the rules.
However it highlights the
greatest news or what the
readers are mostly
interested in.
Again with the eye contact of the
celebrity, Miley a Cyrus has made
her eyes be covered with black
make-up to intensify her eyes, to
make her more deductive and the
colour of pupil contrasts with the
magazines colour scheme. Which
directly make you look at her
eyes, which grab your attention
away. I think we look directly at
Miley Cyrus as there is few cover
lines around her also that she
covers completely the whole
magazine.
She has placed herself naked which is seductive and could
attract young men, as this is also a rock and roll magazine
which does also support this is quite a hard core magazine.
Overall the layout, everything has been placed in a good
place apart from you cant see the barcode and that the
cover price and publish date are made really faint, you cant
see it well and no Plugs placed on the magazine.
They have highlighted
what, teenagers would be
interested to read , as
everyone wants to know
the gossip around. I like
how they have highlighted
the text box around the