LIAAR anaylsis of a front cover 1

L-The magazine masthead is covered by the artists hair. This is a typical feauture of the rolling stones magazine as almost every celebrity featured on the cover has their head/hair covering the masthead this could show that the magazine is popular you don’t need to see the full masthead to know it’s one of their magazines.The house style colours of red white and black is featured to show this is a typical Rolling Stone feature. They carry the theme of these colours on to the font around the artist. The font is bold to draw your attention to what content the magazine has. The text ‘SUPER BOY’ is bigger than the rest of the font  this is to draw the audiences attention to it and makes them wonder why he’s a super boy tempting them to buy this issue and find out why. There is a flash these are used to draw the attention on the audience to a particular feature in the magazine, on this front colour the flash is a different colour to the house style therefore drawing the audience to that. The image of the artist is a medium close-up this is to show his relaxed body language showing he is comfortable in his surroundings. His hair and clothes are wild this could relate back to him been a super boy by his change in image.

I-The Rolling Stones magazine is published and produced by Wenner Media. Jann Wenner is editor and publisher for this particular publishing company. He is also publisher for US weekly and Men’s journal these are both huge selling magazines in the US.

I-The artist is a pop artist so this issue will be aimed at a pop audience. The magazine changes it’s genre every week to fit around the celebrity on the front cover. They do this so they can draw in a wide audience and fit to everyone’s needs.The image fits with the house style of the magazine he looks comfortable in his surrondings and his body language shows he is comfrotable in the world of the media. Th house style colours are eye catching and fit well with the magazine and the rebelious image the artist is trying to create with the costume and pose.

A-The target audience for this issue would be a pop audience or fans of the artist or even weekly reader. The fan audience would be drawn to the issue for the purpose that their favourite artist is on this for Rolling Stones would be a good selling point every week. Rolling Stones change their image every week this would draw the celebrities fans to it and that would be a selling point and a way to become known.

R-Rolling Stones have created a positive image for itself by becoming well known for it’s features. It has a target audience in mind every week making it a good positive way to sell and represents the magazine.