Front Cover Magazine Anaysle (Vibe)

Denotation

The magazine cover shows a colourful photograph because of the cover lines and the masthead. The male is looking directly at the camera. The camera shot is a medium close up showing only the head and the body. The background only shows the males shadow and a grey background which also matches with his jacket.  The male name is in a big font with pink letter this is to get people attention, there also the magazine website on the bottom of the page with suggest to the viewers that they can find more information online.

Masthead

“vibe” is the masthead. The masthead is in a cyan colour. They must of chosen the colour cyan because it’s a bright colour and it 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 male is in the cover is a rapper called Kanye West

 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 male is wearing a jacket which is a varsity jacket. The jacket suggests to us that he is American because the varsity jacket was originally from America to do with college, the jacket also represent his age because mostly teenage wear varsity jackets.

NVC

The non verbal communication looks like he is giving us the puppy looks which suggest to the viewers that we should like fall for him. His facial expression looks like he is listening to us what we are saying and this is effective because if someone talks to us we have to listen right cause if we don’t listen to the person talking they might not want to listen to you, so this is effective because it suggest to us we should listen to his music.

Lighting

The lighting in this covers shows that it’s daytime because there shine on his face also there a shadow behind the male which also tell us that it’s daytime.

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 line

The main cover line is “Kanye West “i am rap” + his so greatest songs.” This is the main coverline because it the biggest cover line out of the rest and it also relates to the male in the cover because it’s says his name. the other cover line tells us it’s not important as the main because it’s smaller that the main cover line. The cover line mentions other artist such like “The dream, Britney Spears” this also suggests to us that it’s a music based 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.