MUSIC MAGAZINE RESEARCH: FRONT COVER

This music magazine uses a huge medium shot of Justin Bieber in the middle of the page this is the main image. The reason it is a medium shot is because his face is the main focus. The reason they used Justin Bieber is because he is one of the most popular Pop stars in the world so a lot more people can associate with him and will want to buy a magazine that has him on the front cover. The image is really big and in the middle of the front cover because that is the first thing you see so it needs to attract the customers and that’s what it does.

The whole of the front cover contains a variety of colour. Colour is used to make the front cover more eye catching and fun, if it didn’t contain any colour it would be very boring and simple. However the colour is also used to associate with the images and text for example the pink linking with the female pop stars.

They use colourful and big bold fonts for the masthead, this is to make it unique compared to other magazine mastheads, the reason for this is so we can identify the magazine from just looking at just the masthead. The reason for the colour and boldness of the font is so that it is easy to read and so that the people know exactly what magazine it is straight away. It also attracts a lot of people as it is more eye catching and fun.

They also used shapes to attract the audience as the audience are teenagers and younger ages they are attracted a lot more by fun and interesting shapes and images rather than lots and lots of writing. The crazy shapes relate to the kind of crazy attitudes that the pop stars have. All they want to do is have fun and go crazy and those shapes some’s that up!

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