magazine cover analysis 2

Music magazine cover analysis – Rolling Stone

This magazine cover is from the magazine “Rolling Stone”

This magazine cover has a colour scheme of white, yellow and black. The colour yellow signifies intelligence and joy. In the image the main person isn’t looking at the camera which is unusual for magazine covers as they like to be looking straight at the camera so it seems that they are looking at the reader and connecting with them. I think that the reason that the cover image does not have the model looking at the camera is because it is showing off the tattoos on the eyes that give the magazine a bit of a hard core edge saying about ‘fear’ and ‘good’. On the cover some of the header of the magazine is covered by a flyer advertisement, rolling stone can do this because they are such an iconic brand and well known around the world. They can also do this because they have the title in the same font, size and position of the title each week therefore it is easily recognised.

They have used white writing with a black out line so that it will contrast with both the darker and lighter parts of the cover I think that the writing sits very well along the left hand side of the magazine but it does leave the cover with a bit of dead space on the left hand side which I think could have been filled with something. The bar code is tucked down the bottom, left hand side out of the way of all of the other features on the cover.

On the front of the magazine there are sneak peeks of what will be inside the magazine to try and catch your eye to pull you in and get you to buy it., this is a very effective method as it can mean that if you don’t have an interest in what is on the front cover you might still see something that you like and won’t be put off at first glance. The little advertisements have been set out so that they are separated but small tallow lines that tie in with the yellow Rolling Stone title. I think that this gives a little extra to the cover and give a bit more colour to the slightly monochrome dark picture.