Front Cover Analysis
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Front Cover Analysis
Transcript of Front Cover Analysis
Front Cover Analysis
The target audience is both genders as girls/women might aspire to be like Rihanna, as she is an attractive young women. Boys/men might also find here attractive for different so they would buy the magazine. A specific age group probably be between the ages of 16 - 30; the magazine want to attract young adults she is young herself. Her fan base is probably all younger so the issue would definitely attract them. Their interests could be music, as this is a music magazine, they could also be interested in her life as the anchorage text exclaims that she is crazy in love (her fans would be very interested in her life story as well as her music).
In the magazine, the main image is using a direct mode of address, meaning the artist is looking directly at the audience. This tells me that the artist wants have a personal relationship with the reader. The artist wants to be able to seem less intimidating as they are taking about an intimate subject. On the front cover we have music artist Rihanna who is a worldwide superstar. She is on the front cover because it is a music magazine, but also to share information about her life as she is 'Crazy in Love'. This implies that the artist has probably enter a relationship or is in one. She is obviously in love with someone.
The anchorage text is an intertextual reference to Beyoncé’s No. 1 single 'Crazy in Love', which is a very steamy and sexual song; this could be connotations of how her relationship is like.
The overall image shows that she young and carefree as her hair quite wild. The image is quite seductive and flirtatious, hard at same time; she doesn't look like you can mess around with her. Which could attract the reader, even though she looks hard on the outside she proclaims her love in the interview within the magazine, which ties up with the saying 'don't judge a book by its cover'. I believe that, that is the overall message she is trying to display on the front cover.
They don't have any buzz words on the magazine, because of her fame and notoriety would sell the magazine.
The title block 'Rolling Stone' is in big bold, red font. The boldness of the font implies that the magazine is confident in what they write about in their magazines, they takes risks to what they publish. The red infers danger, they could publish quite controversial topics. The red can also symbolise that the magazine can be explicit and sexual. The font is quite retro and very ionic, which links to the type of people the magazine have on their front cove.
The puffs suggest that it is going to have an interview with Rihanna, discussing the topic of love and how she is in love with someone. The puffs suggest that Green Day artist Billy Joel is going to make a comeback into the music scene. There are heavier topics such as 'rape and the military', this suggests that these are serious topics and is more informative about the world in general. The lighter topics to be to a younger audience as they would buy the magazine for music purposes. An older audience would find the heavier topics more interesting as it is not as narrow as Rihanna’s life.
They would not need a slogan as the artist Rihanna is so iconic she would attract the audience.
