Magazine Cover Analysis (Rolling Stone Magazine)

The Cover again has all the typical conventions of a magazine such as; Mast head, Cover line and so on. We can also see again that the mast head is covered from the audience again allowing us to know it is a well know institution. Giving us the impression of the popularity of the magazine. However this also lets us know that the institution probably have more consumer items, such as a website for there audience to enhance their experience.

The main image of the magazine (Lady Gaga) is in the centre of the magazine making the model look dominate to the audience, but also giving a sexual image of the artist. This appeals to the audience, which in this case maybe mostly male, because of the genre of the magazine.

The magazine is covered, in cover lines giving the impression of the magazine been full of information. The magazine itself is a more rock and roll type magazine, again showing us the type of audience of which the magazine would be aimed at. However has crossed genres by having a dance/electro artist on the font cover and featuring an article about her within. The cover lines on the magazine stand out quite well as the background is pink and they are white, giving a powerful effect on the front cover. On the other hand the size of the fonts and fonts type varies on the magazine, from large to small. The image of Lady Gaga gives us a look at her along with the main cover line we can tell that the article will be about her and her rise to fame. The date and price differ on this cover rather then the others, they are above the masthead instead of been in the far right hand of the splash. This shows the main focus of the magazine is the detail within it and not the price, on the other hand this may also suggest that the institution of the magazine is well know to there audience whom may distinctively know the price of the magazine when they buy it. The pink colouring of the magazine suggests, a bubbly and fun type of artist of the cove of that magazine and gives us a representation of how people expect Lady Gaga to act.