Billboard magazine cover analysis

1. UNCONVENTIONAL
MAGAZINE COVER
ANALYSIS
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2. This magazine cover is very interesting as it
goes against regular conventions of a magazine
cover as it simply has a greyscale image of
Eminem with the title in the background, 2
articles in the magazine in an extremely small
font next to the title of the magazine and the
artists name and the tag line in front of him.
This will catch a readers eye for numerous
reasons.
One of these reasons is that because the
magazine is so different to what a reader would
expect a magazine to look like they will likely be
intrigued as to what the reasoning behind it is
and so will pay more attention to the magazine
than they would if it was the same as normal.
This will mean they will be more likely to buy it
as they will know more about what is in the
issue than they would if it looked like most other
magazines.

3. The use of colour on this magazine has been
used very well. The background is a deep red,
which has many connotations, which can
contrast quite a lot. For example its positive
connotations are of power and love, and its
negative connotations are of danger and anger.
As well as this because the image of Eminem is
in grayscale it makes the magazine stand out
more because of the contrast between these
colours and the red background
As well as this because they have Eminem on
the front cover it will attract more attention to it
as Eminem is an extremely well known artist
then a lot more people will recognise him than
if they had put an indie artist on the front or an
up and coming artist. Because of his
widespread fame more people are likely to
know and enjoy his music than the other
examples given, and as a result, will mean more
people will buy the magazine.