Analysis of magazine front covers

The first factor that anyone would notice about this title is the colour of the text which is red with a white outline and black background. These colours are part of the house style for NME and allow the audience to recognise it straight away. The bright red assists in achieving this and represents an target audience that are rebellious and different. The letters are written in a large, clear and bold font. This contrasts the type of magazine that is such as many people believe it is a kind of trashy magazine, whereas the font and clearness of the title represents a magazine that would be for an audience that are more mature. NME stands for new musical express and indicates a promotion of new musical talent. When the word express is thought about, the idea of a wide range of items comes to mind which represents NME as being a magazine that is based around a range of things such as new music, gossip and musical articles. Rather than presenting itself as a newspaper rather than a magazine which shows a rebellious type of audience. The target audience are mostly an audience that are male.
The colours used in this magazine are white, red and black and represent a theme that is focused on an audience that are rebellious and different and original. However the colour seems still dark which again represents an audience that are rebellious and not typical, but original.
The picture of the main person on the magazine picture is a full length picture which represents a comeback. The colours that he is wearing within this picture are white and black. This follows the theme of the magazine as well as supports the type of male readers that will pick up this magazine. His picture is slightly covering the edge of the title of NME which represent his importance and his comeback. He is wearing a long cost with dark skinny jeans which represents the clothes of the male audience that will be picking up this magazine. Within the picture he is standing in a position where he is slightly tilted to the right with his hands in his pockets. On the side of the magazine it states about the main person on the cover’s suede trousers and invites the audience to pick up the magazine to catch up with other changes in this band and get the most out of their comeback.

Q is a music magazine that is based on the music genres both rock and pop and is released in the United Kingdom monthly. The title of the magazine is Q and is titled in a white font against a red background. This title is quite large and the colours allow the title stand out and are based quite typically on a rock genre. The white font attracts a more mature audience and the red a younger audience. The idea of two colours represents the two sectors of the magazine which are rock and pop. The font of the title Q is in quite an italic sort of font which represents an older audience over 18. Also the title is in a square block which is the main pointer towards identifying the title as it is the overlapping the central image and is one of the biggest shapes on the page.
The central image on the magazine cover is an image of Cheryl Cole. The main colours of her image are black and red which go with the theme of the magazine as they are based on these colours. Her hair in the image seems really dark almost black and seems like it is wet. This creates the idea of mystery being associated with her. It also represents her being alive and out there and therefore promotes her to the audience. Her makeup consists of her wearing quite thick dark eye liner and bright red lipstick which stands out against her pale face. This creates a loud sort of bad girl image of her. Cheryl Cole s positioned giving close eye contact to the audience with one of her hands placed in a fist just next to her chin with a sort of silver thing touching her tongue. The eye contact directly to the audience seems as if her position and actions are directed straight to the person who is looking at the magazine and draws them in. The positioning of her fist and her tongue is a sort of teaser and shows her bad side. It also consists of intertextual referencing of the Sin City. The whole idea of her being a bad girl and the dark colours represent her music being different and from a different side of what is known of Cheryl Cole.
Underneath the image of Cheryl Cole is the text which says 3 words, Cheryl Cole Rocks. This text gets larger from 3 words to the word rocks and the font colours start off with red then white and then red again. Firstly this carries on the theme of the white, black and red cover and also having the word rocks in a red font and large size supports the kinds of colours associated with these words and the way that the word is said out loud and represents a more immature side to the magazine.
The bar above the magazine title states ‘the Uk’s biggest music magazine’. This informs the audience of the reputation of the magazine.

Analysis of magazine titles

This is a magazine title that is aimed at both men and women between the ages of 15 to 24. The writing is in bold, capital letters with an exclamation mark at the end. This represents a music genre that creates a statement and is unique. The word kerrang is an onomatopoeia and comes from the noise that is made when a guitar is hit really hard. This represents the loudness and therefore popularity of the rock music. The colours used in this title are black and white which represent an equal audience in terms of sex, so black and white representing both women and men. The colours create a stereotypical view of the type of people that read this magazine. It implies the audience that reads this magazine are from an outcast type of social group such as emo’s and Goths. It also implies that this audience are into and dress in dark kind of colours. Within the title there are white lines breaking through it which creates a broken effect. This could represent that this magazine reaches out to a broken type audience. The style of the writing also resembles graffiti which reaches out to a younger audience and sort of represents a young audience that hang about on the streets.


The first factor that anyone would notice about this title is the colour of the text which is red with a white outline and black background. These colours are part of the house style for NME and allow the audience to recognise it straight away. The bright red assists in achieving this and represents an target audience that are rebellious and different. The letters are written in a large, clear and bold font. This contrasts the type of magazine that is such as many people believe it is a kind of trashy magazine, whereas the font and clearness of the title represents a magazine that would be for an audience that are more mature. NME stands for new musical express and indicates a promotion of new musical talent. When the word express is thought about, the idea of a wide range of items comes to mind which represents NME as being a magazine that is based around a range of things such as new music, gossip and musical articles. Rather than presenting itself as a newspaper rather than a magazine which shows a rebellious type of audience. The target audience are mostly an audience that are male.



The first feature that the audience will notice about this magazine title is the colour red. This colour allows the title Q to stand out which allows the audience to notice it. The colour white and also red represents a mature audience. The size of the title block is actually quite large which also assists in the allowing the audience to recognise the title. The font style of the writing seems as if it written in a posh type of font and therefore assists in attracting a mature audience. The title block is in a square which to me represents an audience that quite neat and intelligent. The colours white represents purity and good and is perfect to relate to an older audience.


This magazine title is written in a young sort of trendy font which appeals to a younger audience. The word mojo has a meaning of being a charm or spell. This represents a young audience as it is the young who believe in fantasies and spells and charms. The spacing of the letters is also of such that the reader when reading the title would sound out each letter, reading it carefully. This allows the reader to remember the magazine more easily. The colour white represents purity and good which represents the maybe the type of music the magazine is based on. White could represent not only the young but other types of people as well which shows that although there main focus may be on the young there are also a wide range of other people the magazine invites. The letters are quite large as well which again allows the audience to recognise the title from far away.