Research/Case Study - Front Cover - Rock Sound Magazine (re-draft)

The Front cover of  Rock Sound Magazine

• The image is a medium close up shot, this is known because the picture captured goes up to their knees. This image shot lets us see what they are wearing and to try and figure out what kind of people they are without reading anything about them, they are wearing dark colours and their make up is pretty dark too. the lighting on the image is not very bright and the band look pale.
• There are two other images on the contents page but they are smaller mid shots as it cuts at their waist, these are like this because they are things and people that will feature in the rock magazine.
• The skyline shows images of artists and there names. It also tells the audience that there is a free CD and poster in the magazine. Advertising something free in a magazine will make the buyer want it more because they are getting something for free, this is a good marketing technique as the production company will make a lot of money from it.
• The cover lines have a red background and the text is either white or yellow. These bright colours atrract people because they are bright and they stand out, I do not think it is really associated much with rock because the colours are brighter than usual, i would have thought that it being a rock magazine black and red would be the main colours.
• The colour scheme for the front cover is red, black, white and yellow
• 'Rock Sound' is the masthead and it does not stand out as much as 'Paramore' which is the main story in the magazine, I think Paramore stands out more because it is in the middle of the cover and it is white and in capital letters.
• The font is pretty much all the same, the text is all in capital letters, and you will only find that on a rock magazine which this is.
• You can tell that it is a rock magazine because of the image and the colour scheme used.
• There is a bar code on the front cover and the price is underneath it in pounds, American, Canadian and Australian dollars showing that it is not only sold in the UK.
• The layout of the front cover is quite messy which goes with rock because rock music is loud and most rock musicians are messy with the way they perform.