front cover analysis

magazine front cover analysis

The magazine that i will be analyzing is NME music magazine featuring ‘tyler the creator’ on the front cover. The main colours on the are red,white and gold which all show the connotations of the royal wedding which is mentioned at the top of the page, gold is associated with words like ‘rich’ and ‘expensive’ and sometimes ‘royalty’.Also you will can associate this magazine with the royal wedding because tyler the creator is dressed in the crown and jewels but in a kind of way it shouldn’t be worn.  The first thing on the front cover that would attract the reader is the large red writing in the middle with the header saying ‘tyler the creator’ and because it is white background it stands out from the image and back of the image do that u can see it first.On the front cover there is a pull quote from the article in the magazine form tyler thats says ‘i don’t give a t sh*t about the royal wedding which makes the reader interested about the article and want to buy the magazine so they can read on.  At the top of the front cover  its says ‘god save us from Wills & Kate’ which tells us that there is some sort of backlash from the younger generation of artists and older ones like the ‘sex pistols’ and the doors who went against establishment. 

In the top right hand corner there is a small pug that says free inside, this is for a free guide to the NME festivals 2011 and when the reader notices this they may believe that they are getting a gift that my persuade the reader to by the magazine.there is also a small advertisment for odd futures UK tour.  The editor has put some of the sub stories at the bottom, because they are the last think that will be seen on the front cover because they are not as important as the main story. the house style has been consistently through out the front cover because if the font would not look professional and it wouldn’t look right with all the different texts.  The main image of tyler gives the impression that he is rebelling against the law/government, the reason for this kind of image is because some of his music not correct with what other people think and what he raps about is very provocative, Also the main image links to the other stories about the ‘sex pistols’ and ‘the doors’ because they also rebelled against the law in some of their music like the sex pistols which had a song that talked about killing the queen because the were against the establishment. Looking at the front cover it has been made very successfully because the colours have been used to match with the main image and the mast head and also at the time the magazine had been released the royal wedding was taking place so the editor has made a very good, funny cover for the occasion.