Music Magazine Cover Analysis 3

The masthead is placed at the top of the page to make it clear for the audience to see what the tile of this magazine. The masthead is partly covered by the icon but is still easy to see what the magazine is called. The font that is used for the masthead is large and bold, showing the audience that the producer is very confident in this brand. The colour that is used in the masthead is white which makes it very noticeable for the audience to see as the background of this magazine is black.

The skyline is placed in the usual position, above the masthead, in very small font as it is not as important as the rest of the magazine. The use of using a skyline gives the audience more of a professional view of the magazine.

The colour scheme that this magazine uses is white, black and bright yellow. The use of this colour scheme makes the magazine looks more professional as it uses a limited range of colours. Using a limited range of colours makes the whole magazine work effectively as the colours goes well with one another, making each of the colours stand out, drawing the audience into the magazine.

The sell lines use a couple of different sized fonts. Most of the sell line uses the same colour combination scheme as first word or line is either coloured or highlighted in yellow then the second word or line coloured in white, then repeated again. Using a colour combination scheme makes the magazine more attractive to the audience, as each sell line seems to stand out more as it would do if the sell lines was coloured in one colour, this helps to draw the audience in wanting to read the magazine. 

The main image is a medium camera shot of the icon. As the magazine as used one image makes it easy to realise what the main articles in the magazine will be about the singer Drake. The image also combines into the colour scheme as the writing on his shirt is in bold capital letters like the masthead.

The cover contains the typical codes in which many magazines holds. This includes the bar code that is placed at the bottom of the page, vertically and suitable sized, on the left hand side of the cover, which gives the audience additional information such as the price and the issue release date. Also where the bar code is placed above it has the website for the 'VIBE' company.

Over all the layout of this magazine is quite formal as all the sell lines are placed in line beneath each other. The layout is rather busy as the front cover uses some different sized fonts, and a maximum numbers of sell lines. The front cover has quite a lot of featuring as both sides of the magazine are filled with sell lines but don't use a verity of colours