Front Cover Analysis

This is the magazine 'Rolling Stone'.

The main image is of the band Kings of Leon who are a massive rock band in America. The image is a long shot of the band looking straight into the camera. They are wearing black, navy and white coloured which are intimidating coloures.

The language used on the front cover is attractive to the reader and is a way of targeting the audience. All of the subheadings are connected to the type of magazine and sort of stories that it involves. The sell line is a way of attracting their target audience. The splash is in a layout which enables all of the main texts to be seen by the reader. The masthead is also the name of a famous rock band so this also helps give off the genre of the magazine.

The ideology is an important aspect of the magazine as consumers will want to see a band which represents all of the aspects of the megazine on one page. Mainstream magazines know that music is important to their mainstream audience which is another reason why they choose to have big music artists on the front cover.

The audience for this type of magazine is mainly rock and punk fans. The way in which they advertise stories on the front page of other rock artists gives the consumer a a way of identifying the genre of the magazine without having to read the magazine. The main image of Kings of Leon represent the style of music that 'Rolling Stone' is attracting and the genre of music.

The representation is very important to the front cover of a magazine as it presents the, stories and the main headlines in a way that attract their audience. " The god-fearing, booze swelling......" this is a way of presenting a band makes them seem fearless and their music fearless and this attracts audiences as they want to read about new artists and how their music is. The main image is set in the desert with the band dressed as cowboys and this makes them look intimidating and they have self belief. It also makes them look confident in themselves and this shows in their music.