The white mast head showing “VIBE” shows the magazine it is and always stays the same for each magazine, as you always know what it is then and can tell even if the title is covered by the picture a bit. It is bold and bright so it stands out to the audience and the people glancing at the front covers.

He is shown to be a rapper or singer who is looking straight towards the reader as he wants you to read on. He looks relaxed but serious as he’s like a gangster and wants to look tough. It links to the target audience which is R&B, hip hop and rap aged between 18 and 34. He looks to be between these ages so he is relevant to the people reading it. He also dressed like they might and looks similar in appearance.

The black shows the man is a dark character and may be quite evil or just more badass than other people. The main black background also shows the whole magazine could be similar.

The barcode makes it look more professional and is used for sale purposes

-It is laid out in an order so you can see the most relevant and standing out areas first.

- The mast head at the top makes it easy to see which magazine it is.

- The main image is normally the main topic of the magazine and has the most relevance to the audience.

-Above the mast head is all the artists as they have the most importance because it is about them, it also attracts people as they know what it contains.

-Around the edges is writing about “exclusive” mean that people want to know all the facts before everyone else. Also they tell you what is in the magazine such as interviews.

It advertises twitter and also the VIBE website to give it even more information and widens the audience

Key words such as; “unstoppable”, “new”, and others like; the musician’s names and key titles all mean something. “Unstoppable” shows on the persons t-shirt to show that he is quite a tough guy and doesn’t take anything from anyone, like a gangster and rapper. The word “new” attached to VIBE shows it is a new copy so you should buy it as it will have new material, it stands out in the yellow to the white as well. The main people’s names across the top of the page show who it will contain so you will want to read it as it contains so many different people, they are written in yellow then white pattern so they stand out and so you are attracted to look at them. The more you see, the more you want to buy.

Only 3 colours are used so they don’t collide too much showing the 3 colour rule and sticking to it for this front cover. It makes it basic and easy to see so it can attract audience attention better; the colours used are a black background, white for the title and yellow for most writing.

The yellow writing makes it able to stand out to the black background so it makes it easier to read and attracts more attention

The selling line above the mast head says “IRON MAIDEN RETURN: “WE’RE TAKING NO PRISINORS!” in bold writing, first to catch your attention and stand out. It shows a big band is returning so you want to read on to find out more. It also shows they are quite hard-core like the audience as they take no prisoners

The band members here overlap the mast head of “kerrang” which doesn’t really make a difference as you already know what it is so then you can have even more of the main image to stand out.

The smaller images able you to get more in depth with the magazine and able you to have a better in sight of who it contains, not just the band in the main image. They allow more advertisement to the magazine as well as it stats “poster special” attracting you to the free content they also put into the magazine which the readers have a lot of attraction to.

The mast head shows “kerrang “as it is kerrang magazine, so you know what you are reading. It is bold and white so it stands out to the black background behind it. It means you will buy it so the company makes more money.

The main image here is to show the most important band on the image. All four of the people are shown at similar heights and not much difference in authority. The facial expressions all differ but all show them as casual people, which contrasts to the way they look as they are dressed differently and oddly, but appeal to the target audience.

This banner saying “THE ULTIMATE GUIDE DOWNLOAD” shows a huge advertisement for the download festival so the magazine must contain all the information on these showing the list of many bands and singers/artists. It is in black with a yellow border the writing stands out compared to other areas of the front cover. The size of the word “DOWNLOAD” shows how big and successful the festival is.

Mojo magazine gives freebies shown in the corner for a free CD which not all magazines do so it shows Mojo is unique and likes to sell to the audience in alternate ways.

The masthead is used here again to show which magazine it is so you can find it easy. It is bold and white to stand out to the readers and takes up a large amount of space at the top so it is easily see able.

As the main image, the Beatles are shown which tells you that the magazine does not only focus on new music like many magazines but also looks at old music such as the 60s Beatles and “101 greatest songs”.

They are shown as relaxed and causal and don’t really care what’s going on. They look like the stars they were and look very famous here.

The use of “101 songs” makes it more standing out as people normally go for top 100 but this magazine seems unique and more outstanding and goes for even more to show it is better.

The front cover overall shows little of what it contains but tells you the sorts of things that will be inside. It gives you a large view of the Beatles and makes them out as the best and most important band of the magazine. It makes you want to buy it as you want to find out these top 101 songs and what people are talking about, so it only gives you briefs so you have to buy it to see if you like it.

Using the word “plus” and having even more artists underneath shows that the magazine goes even further than it has already gone and gives you much more than expected,

This magazine will probably appeal to an older generation of people because the Beatles were and 60s band so the people back then are generally going to be more interested than a person of today’s music. The audience therefore will be majority over 30s but also younger ages who want to see good music of the past.

The main focus of this magazine though is of the Beatles as they have the main picture and also bold writing saying who they were, even though it is obvious to most audiences, especially of this magazine. The idea of having the writing as well might bring more people from other audiences in wanting to read it.