Front cover analysis template disclosure
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The Target Audience and genre The target audience for his particular magazine would be teenagers aged 14 to adults aged 30. Main Image The main image of the magazine is disclosure themselves. You can see that both boys are quite young and both between the age 14 to 30 and are Model credit The model credit is ‘DISCLOSURE bringing the Main Cover Line The main model credit is ‘IBIZA 2013 ALL THE CLUBS, ALL THE DJs, ALL YOU NEED’ This supports the genre as deep house Colours/Typefaces/House style The main colours are black, red and white. They vary from very dark colours to quite bright colours. The font of the text is quite thick and bold, it’s also in various different colours which helps the writing stand out more to the reader. The house style is having the Masthead The Masthead is ‘Mixmag’ this is the name of the magazine itself. This magazine is a deep house/ dance music genre magazine. They also focus on club culture. The magazine was previously a The Gutenberg Design Principle The primary optical area is the top left corner. This is where it states the main cover line. This is what the magazine editors want the reader to notice first. You then look from the top left t the bottom right; this is where the main picture image and model credit. You’re then in the terminal area, this is small type and the barcode I, Cover lines Other cover lines used on the front cover are “ultra-hits Korea” “Win a DJ set at Cream fields” Also “Daft Punk album: The verdict” This is Banners/Flashes/badges The flash in the magazine is “The world’s biggest dance music and clubbing magazine” Which is a brief explanation of the magazine. Bages used are “Plus…” This is additional
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Target Audience and genre
The target audience for his particular magazine would be teenagers aged 14 to adults aged 30. The genre of their music is house/deep house music.
Main Image
The main image of the magazine is disclosure themselves. You can see that both boys are quite young and both between the age 14 to 30 and are both dress in quite urban clothing.
Model credit
The model credit is ‘DISCLOSURE bringing the heat this summer’.
Main Cover Line
The main model credit is ‘IBIZA 2013 ALL THE CLUBS, ALL THE DJs, ALL YOU NEED’ This supports the genre as deep house music is the main genre played in clubs, and DJ’s.
Colours/Typefaces/House style
The main colours are black, red and white. They vary from very dark colours to quite bright colours. The font of the text is quite thick and bold, it’s also in various different colours which helps the writing stand out more to the reader. The house style is having the main cover line central and having other cover lines, spread out across the page. Also the main image is central but behind the cover line.
Masthead
The Masthead is ‘Mixmag’ this is the name of the magazine itself. This magazine is a deep house/ dance music genre magazine. They also focus on club culture. The magazine was previously a newsletter to DJs but changed when hose music began.
The Gutenberg Design Principle
The primary optical area is the top left corner. This is where it states the main cover line. This is what the magazine editors want the reader to notice first. You then look from the top left t the bottom right; this is where the main picture image and model credit. You’re then in the terminal area, this is small type and the barcode I, therefore isn’t as important as the rest of the magazine. The strong fallow area is the top right Daft Punk’s album is mentioned. Finally the weak fallow area is the bottom left, this is where the less important writing is.
Cover lines
Other cover lines used on the front cover are “ultra-hits Korea” “Win a DJ set at Cream fields” Also “Daft Punk album: The verdict” This is additional information used to catch the reader’s attention.
Banners/Flashes/badges
The flash in the magazine is “The world’s biggest dance music and clubbing magazine” Which is a brief explanation of the magazine. Bages used are “Plus…” This is additional information which is used on the front cover as it may be eye catching to the reader.
