bikini riot Analysis of music magazine covers. The front cover of \"BLENDER\" magazine follows most of the codes and convection of a music magazine genre. The font of the masthead of “BLENDER†magazine is bold and big. It is black while the background is white. This is a good technique used by most music magazine as the dark colour (masthead) against a bright colour (background) catches the audience’s eyes. Also, it is partly obscured by the image of Katy Perry. The fact that the image is overlapping(partly obscuring) the masthead, gives the magazine a 3D look and makes the front cover appear more interesting and modern to the audience. This is also the convection that most music magazine follows as they assume that the audience is already familiar with the house style of the magazine and helps the audience to easily recognise the magazine from other magazine. there`s a strap line above the masthead which draws the reader`s attention to the \"free downloads! On 10 hot new tracks\". Also, the convectional use of the exclamation mark draws attention to the free gift being given to the audience. Also, the free download would increase the sale of the magazine as most readers would buy the magazine just because of the free download. This shows synergy within the music industry as the magazine are given away this free downloads to increase their sale while the artist/band/record label have agreed to give out this free downloads to promote their singles. The photograph on the front page is a medium shot of white girl wearing multi â€" colour shorts and a bikini top with a bow on her head. The lighting is really bright and the background is white. Her facial expression is cool and shows a little sign of vulnerability. This attracts both men and women as she doesn’t look intimidating too women. The bow on her hair is girly and would appeal to women while her outfit would attract men as she doesn’t have that much on. Her body language is relaxed and not overshadowing the masthead/text. This is good because it gives the audience a chance to view the other features of the front cover of the magazine. The image is right in the middle of the page while all the texts are beside it. This attracts the audience because it is big and right in the middle so it would be the first thing they see when they look at the magazine. The font of the text is sans-serif. The texts vary in sizes and the headline story is the biggest and really catchy while the others a bit smaller. Also, the headline story is placed very close to the figures face; this draws attention to the story and gives the audience the idea that particular story is about the figure on the front page. only three main colours are used in the magazine(white. black and white), this is a convection used by most music magazine to create uniformity(all texts are black and pink against a white background) and to make sure that there is no \"colour riot\" on the front page. All previous blender magazine seem to have a picture of famous celebrity (male or female) on the front cover and the background is always plain(mostly white).This particular magazine adopts that style as well. The picture of all othe blender magazines are either a medium shot or a head shot and this magazine also adopts that style. This is good because the regular audience of blender magazine would recognise this magazine on the shelve from afar. The pink and black text against a white background is colourful and pink is \"stereotypically\" also associated girls, also, she is dresses quite girly so this suggest that the house style is magazine is quite girly. This cover has definitely influenced my design because I would like my magazine to look like this - an image (medium shot) against a plain background with a simple style. Also, with a girly feel to it but targeted at both men and women.
