Front cover analysis template ed sheeran
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The Target Audience and genre The target audience for his particular magazine would be teenagers between 14 to adults aged 30. Ed Sheeran is a pop artist who styles his music around the Main Image The main image is Ed Sheeran holding an acoustic guitar. This links in with the Model credit The model credit is ‘Ed Sheeran An everyday tale of one man, his guitar and global superstardom.’ This is Main Cover Line The main cover line is “Neil Young Exclusive! On family, CSNY & the future.” This links in with the magazine as Colours/Typefaces/House style The house style is having the cover lines surrounding the main image but having the model credit over the image itself. Doing this with the main cover line clearly shows who the image of the solo artist Masthead The mast head is ‘Q’ This is a music magazine which focuses on a wide range of genres such as deep house, pop, rock and many more. This is why Ed Sheeran is The Gutenberg Design Principle The primary optical area is the top left corner. This is where it states the masthead and the main cover line, therefore the reader notices this first. You then look at the bottom right corner. This is the terminal area. This has some cover lines, but not the main cover line. The weak fallow area is the bottom left corner, this has the Coverlines Cover lines used are; Wilko Johnson…, Pink Floyd…, Kasabian…, Culture Club… and Royal Blood. These all link in with Ed Sheeran as some have the same genre or similar genres of music. They also talk about their music or Banners/Flashes/badges ‘Plus! St. Vincent caribou the war on drugs & the return on AC/DC’ and ’50 albums of 2015’ Links in with the idea of music as it talks about AC/DC who are a rock band themselves as well as
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Target Audience and genre
The target audience for his particular magazine would be teenagers between 14 to adults aged 30. Ed Sheeran is a pop artist who styles his music around the genres of pop, folk and acoustic genres. He also incorporates R&B in some songs.
Main Image
The main image is Ed Sheeran holding an acoustic guitar. This links in with the acoustic based genre songs.
Model credit
The model credit is ‘Ed Sheeran An everyday tale of one man, his guitar and global superstardom.’ This is also links in with the acoustic genre as it mentions his guitar.
Main Cover Line
The main cover line is “Neil Young Exclusive! On family, CSNY & the future.” This links in with the magazine as Niel Young was also a folk artist, as well as Ed Sheeran.
Colours/Typefaces/House style
The house style is having the cover lines surrounding the main image but having the model credit over the image itself. Doing this with the main cover line clearly shows who the image of the solo artist is. The colours are mainly red and white and the type is bold and clear. However the main model credit looks like it may have been hand written.
Masthead
The mast head is ‘Q’ This is a music magazine which focuses on a wide range of genres such as deep house, pop, rock and many more. This is why Ed Sheeran is a good artist to use as he is a pop artist himself.
The Gutenberg Design Principle
The primary optical area is the top left corner. This is where it states the masthead and the main cover line, therefore the reader notices this first. You then look at the bottom right corner. This is the terminal area. This has some cover lines, but not the main cover line. The weak fallow area is the bottom left corner, this has the barcode in which isn’t very important whereas the strong fallow area which is the top right corner has the main badge in it which will catch the reader’s attention therefore, it is placed in a good position.
Coverlines
Cover lines used are; Wilko Johnson…, Pink Floyd…, Kasabian…, Culture Club… and Royal Blood. These all link in with Ed Sheeran as some have the same genre or similar genres of music. They also talk about their music or recent music festivals which Ed Sheeran also does.
Banners/Flashes/badges
‘Plus! St. Vincent caribou the war on drugs & the return on AC/DC’ and ’50 albums of 2015’ Links in with the idea of music as it talks about AC/DC who are a rock band themselves as well as albums, which each solo artist/ Band releases at some point.
