Front Cover Magazine Anaysle (XXL)

Denotation

The magazine cover shows a colour photograph using four colours which are brown, red, black and white. There a male rapper that is look directly at the camera. The camera shot is a medium shot which shows his head, upper body and arm. As you can see the male rapper is playing chess which kind of suggest to the readers that the rapper has got a strategy on what he is doing.  He is sitting down on something but you can’t see the chair, it looks like he is raising his right brown because his right side of his forehead is showing his wrinkles. There is a bar code at the bottom right hand corner.  

Masthead

XXL is standing out in the magazine. What makes the masthead stand out is the colour red because you don’t see much red in cover. The front is a sans serif which has not flicks up. the front also used red and white colours to show it’s a famous brand such like “Coca cola”, “Supreme”, “rolling stone” etc.  I think the magazine business named them self “XXL” because so they are a big company, also where else you see XXL is in clothing and when you buy an XXL clothes it means big.  I guess when musicians are on the front cover of XXL it might mean they are a big artist and they are successful.

Character  

The person in the front cover is a successful rapper called “Dr Dre”.

The composition o the cover shows that the male rapper is too big for the magazine which kind of suggests to us that the XXL magazine wants to take up space. The clothing makes the character look more fearsome because he looks like a gangster because he is wearing all black and most gangsters we all black.

The character costume is wearing a jacket with leather material and cotton material and a black tee shirt. The jacket suggest to the audience masculinity and strength, it also a rebel icon as well because when people wear leather jackets they all look tough like  on motorbike and they do bad stuff, the leather jacket are mostly worn by men. The black tee shirt suggests to us that he is coving up his skin which tells us that he doesn’t want to be seductive also the colour black is a connation of power and evil this also tell the audience that he has power and he is evil.

The non verbal communication shows that he is watching us this tells the audience that he is watching other rappers or singers what they do because he can make his next move to become bigger.

The lighting is can tell us what time of day it is, the lighting in the cover tells us that it is daytime.

The setting is a grey background which connotes timeless which tells the audience that he has a lot of time on his hands. The colour grey also goes with any colour.

The main cover is “Dr Dre, yes detox is coming” which also relate to his photograph how is watching other rappers or singers move and also how Dr Dre has been release any songs lately. The colours of the cover line are white and red because so it can stand out with the character costume. The magazine also mention other artist such like Nicki Minaj, Swizz Beats, Waka Flocka Flame, Deb Antney and Kanye West. As you know these are all hip hop artist this suggest to us that XXL is a hip hop magazine.

The target audience for this magazine would people aged (20 -35) who are into hip hop or music/ this is because they would have good knowledge of the music industry, and would be likey to have an interest in American culture because most hip hop artist are from America.