This is a front cover from the magazine called ‘VIBE’, the magazine focuses on music genres R’n’B and hip hop.
The front cover fits in with this theme as the colours contrast well, the black background makes the text stand out well, since the magazine is about the hip hop genre, the gold colour text could represent the fact that most hip hop artists wear a lot of gold jewellery.
The artist in the centre of the magazine is wearing dark clothing which goes well with the back ground. As the text around him talks about him being new on the music scene, the jewellery he is wearing around his neck is silver, this goes with the text above his head and below him, this suggests he is new to the scene and not as experienced as the other artists so he wears the silver jewellery and not gold as he has not made it to the top yet.
The masthead is slightly blocked out by his head, this doesn’t matter as vibe is a well known and popular magazine so people will recognize the magazine by the style of font the positioning.
The sell lines around the picture of the artist are in bright gold and are in bold, this makes them stand out, this helps engage the reader. They contain words such as ‘Exclusive’ as this attracts the reader as they know what exclusive means, so they will only find it within this magazine.
Located on the middle right of the page is a danger/hazard sign, the colours match with the text and sell lines. The colours and font, along with the medium close up of the artist straight away tell us what that the music genre is for hip hop/R’n’B as the colours look quite grimy and they are not suitable for a pop magazine as the colours are dark and contrast.
This magazine front cover has inspired me and got my attention as it is a music genre I am interested in and the colours are bright and contrast well with the background, i want to create a similar colour scheme as it attracts the eye well.
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