In music magazine covers there's a general convention followed by the publishers:
- You will find with most popular magazines the artist on the cover will overlap the actual title it, although this can vary depending on the artists popularity and global recognition, and with the less known magazines the name is bold and always viable as they want people to know, recognize and remember the company.
- The title will generally be bold, short and memorable. Most commonly a single word the pops up in your face, e.g. Vibe.
- There is always an artist on the front of the cover, this is because they sell the magazine, there face, gossip and music is what people want to see, the magazines are also promoting this artist to help them receive more global recognition.
- The colour scheme is also important, there is normally a small colour pallet used, generally two colours that contrast each other to stand out more, if there was a vast array of colours it becomes confusing as well as complicated to look at as your brain is trying to processes so many colours at once alongside and text and imagery. The colours are normally black and/or white or warm and cold colours, e.g. Orange and white.
- It's also common to find that many key words have been highlighted or in a different colour/font. This is because this is what the publisher wants you see first, it's what I like to call the fishing method, these words/artists are the bait that attracts you, followed by the short phases and stories promised within that's advertised on the front cover that reels you in to buy the magazine, lastly once you read it your 'hooked'.
- Lastly a variety of language techniques are used to make the magazine more memorable, cleaver puns and metaphors are used to attract the targeted audience into buying their product, e.g. "A hot girl spits fire".
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