Magazine Front Cover Analysis

   

          Magazine front cover analysis

          This is the magazine cover of one issue of VIBE. This is a magazine all about rap music and the rappers who create them. The main image of this cover is Eminem, a very well known rapper who has had a very successful career. In his songs, he relates to his audience making them feel a part of his life. They have chosen Eminem to be the main image of this magazine because one of the main stories in the magazine is about him. He has a big fan base of people who like rap, and so this image would attract them to buy the magazine. It also says in the cover lines that 'Eminem comes clean', this is about his use of drugs. A quote, which is most likely from him says 'I literally almost died'. This is sort of an enigma code. Although it says a few drugs above this, you still want to know how he nearly died, how much he took for it to get to that point. He is also looking directly at the camera, and so on the cover this makes it feel as if he is connecting to you. The masthead says VIBE. this is so that you know what magazine it is, and so you can relate to this magazine as having a popular rapper in it. However, the image is more likely do persuade the reader to buy it rather then the title itself, as there will be some people who have no idea what the magazine is, but they like Eminem and so want to read it. 

          I would say that the target audience for this magazine would be 16-25. Although a lot of older people might rapping there are more younger people who like this kind of music. The class that i think this will fall under is D and E

    

          This is a gaming magazine and is obviously all about new games that are coming out soon, or in the future, and it can have the most recent games and the older generation games. The main image for this cover is of a game that has recently come out called Alien: Isolation. This magazine however, was issued in February, when the game was only just announced and so having this image on the main cover would make people want to buy it. It also says exclusive access to the game which is coming out, so that would also make people want to buy the magazine, so they can learn about the game and see if it is something that they would want to invest in. This image takes up most of the cover, there isn't much writing on it. The masthead is at the front of the image, which is different to most magazines because they usually have the main image coving a bit of the masthead, in this magazine they don't want to take away that it is the official magazine for XBOX, and they have put a nice big picture of their logo on the front as well, so you know that it is definitely an xbox magazine. There are other cover lines around the image as well, but they are smaller then everything else. They name different games, it says 'Plus All Of This' So it makes you feel like you are getting a lot more in the magazine then just the Alien: Isolation information. But you should already know that that isn't all thats going to be in the magazine, but the way they word it makes it seem as if there is so much more in the magazine then you are paying for.

          I would say that for this magazine the target audience would be 14-21. I think this mainly because it is the younger people who tend to play more video games. Even though the games that they mention are a higher rating then the minimum target age for the magazine, a lot of people have games that are aged higher then them, and i would say up to 21 for the target audience because educing all the imd whilst you are ageing up, you are at school and college and might only have a part time job. At the age of 21 is when some people start look at full time jobs. I think that this would fall under the class of D and E as well, possibly C2