magazine analysis for main task

This front cover is of a music magazine. The Cover image is of a well known R'n'B artist, Kanye West. He is positioned in the centre of the another band called daft punk. This image makes Kanye west, the artist, stand out more as he is the only one without his face covered. The image is overlapping the masthead a little bit showing the magazine is well known. although most of the cover image is black, the spectator can see a hint of pink on the jacket of the right figure and on the top of the mask of the left figure. this adds colour to the image and there is also a hint of pink on the side of the artists face.
This hint of colour is also used for one character in the kicker. the '+' in the kicker is in pink and matches the hint of colour in the image. there are also touch ups on the cover of the magazine with this colour pink. There are lines in between some straplines aswell as some lettering.

The image ancors the idea that your are in a club because kanye west electronic and hiphouse single stronger is a type of music you would hear in a club. the lighting also reflects this as it has very bright and colourful hints.

The Background image is full of other artists names and the colours used are green fading in to blue. these colours aslso macth the colour reflected onto the left figures mask.

The straplines and kicker are mainly written in white which stands out against the dark background and cover image. There are not alot of straplines on the magazine but the audience can tell it is a music magazine through the language and image used. all the conventions of a typical magazine are used in this cover as there is a cover image, straplines and a limit on the colours used. There is not a skyline on the cover but the masthead is made up of 2 parts. The main attraction and brightest colour used is on the masthead, 'SPIN'. This grabs the attention of the reader.
the font on the kciker is simple and is straight to the point. it relates to the cover image as it contains the artists name, Kanye west and daft punk.
the target audience of the magazine is of 16 years and older music fans of different genres. the background of different artists names shows the magazine covers a wide range of music genres.