The first thing I noticed about this magazine was the masthead as covers around a quarter of the page, is in a serif font and is bold and clear to see, this is adhering to a convention of a music magazine, also another convention being adhered to is that the subject of the front cover is placed in front of the masthead because even though the whole masthead cannot be seen, the characteristics of the masthead I have just noted are the housestyle for this magazine and this is recognised by the audience and the product is still purchased because they can identify the magazine easily.
The subject of the front cover's apparel is also quite related to his genre of music as he is wearing all black, this supports Richard Dyer's theory of representation. He is also in a very sinister pose which again relates to his genre of music, he looks like he is summoning something of dark power and this is how the magazine want the subject to be perceived by the audience. The subject is also stood in the centre of the page which is adhering to yet another convention of music magazine. The apparel of the subject also shows large relation to the background which is also very dark and eerie related to his genre.
There is also a clear colour scheme going on as the feature story is in large letters in gold going across the subject, however all of the other references to the other cover articles are adhering to the colour scheme on this front cover as they are also in a bold, gold font. The banner going across the top of the magazine is also following the colour scheme as that is also gold with black writing, they have switched this around so it stands out when the reader looks at the front cover as this is also an important article.
In the top corner along the banner is also a puff showing a reference to a free gift, this breaks the colour scheme and this is so it can be clearly seen by the customer, this is almost a method of persuasion so the magazine will be bought if there is a free gift inside. Also the pugs are in the bottom corner of the magazine and this adheres to the convention of a music magazine.
This has influenced my planning and creativity due to the fact the clothes of the subject creates synergy with the background and the colour of some of the text as this seems to be a very black orientated front cover, after seeing this I may want to link the appearance of my cover star to the background and other characteristics of the front cover. I also liked how the text going across the middle of the page linked to the banner and pugs due to them following the same colour scheme. I didn't like how there was a large piece of text going across the page as I think it takes away from the effect of the pose from the cover star and due to my negative opinion I am obviously not going to use it in my magazine.
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