Front Cover Magazine Anaysle (Vibe)

Denotation

The magazine cover shows colourful cover lines and a black and white photograph. This a medium shot because it shows his upper body and a little bit of his lower body. There is a bar code at the bottom of the magazine. The background is white.

masthead

“vibe” is the masthead. The masthead is in a red violent colour. They must of chosen the colour red violent colour because it stands out in the magazine cover because it stands out in the cover it also catches people attention. The font is in a sans serif because there no flicks between the letters or joined up. The masthead also tells us it’s a music based magazine because vibes means the atmosphere of someone giving communication to you to feel.

Character

The character in the magazine cover is a rapper called Akon

Composition

The composition of the magazine is that the masthead is behind the character, also there cover lines that goes over the character.

Costume

The character is only wearing jeans and chain. The chain suggest to us that he is a rapper because most rapper has got a chain of their icon. The character is not wearing any top because this is could just attract females.

NVC

The non verbal communication of the character is demanding because it looks like he want us because of his pose, it’s like the American poster from the war when they want people to join the army.

Lighting

The lighting in the cover shows that it’s daytime because you can see the shine on his body and face.

Setting

There isn’t any setting in cover because it’s just a grey background but the grey connotation of grey is that it’s stylish or fresh it could suggest that the male is stylish and fresh.

Cover lines

The main cover line “Akon the last hit maker” this is the main cover line because it’s the biggest cover line that the rest and it also relate to the character in the cover. There a cover line that mention artist like Ne – yo and Robbie thicke. This suggest to the viewers it’s a music base magazine.

Target audience

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 likely to have an interest in American culture because most hip hop artist are from America.