Analysis of existing magazine cover

Analysis of Rolling Stones- (lil Wayne rock)

The target audience of this magazine is people who love rock music and who love to listen to the latest rap and rock music. The target audience for this magazine is people aged sixteen to late twenties. This is because people below the age of sixteen will not understand the language and the language will also contain swears bad language that is not suitable for them.

The main image of this magazine is an RNB and hip hop star ‘lil Wayne’ he is an iconic rapper that the majority of people reading this magazine will understand and recognize. The iconic star on the magazine is looking down and is topless which links in with the target audience of the magazine because it is not formal. The image has a movement because he is looking down which makes the audience and readers of the magazine to look down as well and it makes the reader want to see and read what ever he is looking at. The image relates to the music genre of the magazine because of the way he is dressed and because he is in the RNB and rock industry. The image of the magazine is at the centre of the magazine there are no angles and there is no depth as well. The subject matter in the magazine is not wearing any clothes there is limited mise en scene and he is only wearing a hat and necklace; this suggests that he is giving out a message to readers and the audience. The subject matter has got a lot of tattoos on as well which appeals to the people who like this type of genre. The colors that are used in this magazine are the background is a mixture of cream and light brown and the mast head of the magazine is bright yellow which makes it stand out and it also brings more attention to it and when people see the magazine they will see the mast head first, and they will be excited by the iconic wrapper on the cover and they will still remember the name of the magazine. The mood of the magazine links in with the types of raps and music lil Wayne makes which is not happy and colorful but sad and focuses on the violence and bad things in life. The image relates to the target audience because the image is of someone that young people have seen and heard of, and the way he is dressed also relates to the way teenagers and young people in their twenties sometimes dress.

The magazine is called ‘Rolling Stone’ and rolling stone was an iconic band that everyone knew and the magazine also relates to that because the images on the magazine and the magazine itself is something that everyone knows and has heard of and the celebrities on the magazines is also something that everyone knows about and has heard of. The typeface is the same color and size on the cover of the magazine, but some of the strap lines are bigger and bolder than others. And this suggests that on the entire magazine the style is the same, which shows that the magazines are linked.