Front Cover TA 1

This magazine is from an american magazine who cover the Rap and hip/hop genre. The name is called XXL, the two magazines I have concentrated on is The source magazine and this one the XXL. this front cover is of Shyne rapper from america.

The magazine has made shyne look like he’s looking at the reader in way that he is judging the reader. Another interpretation is that the fact he’s got a cigar in his mouth is that he doesn’t care whohe is looking at him, the army gear worn by him connotes he’s in the army many soldiers smoke in the army this may be interpreting them. Just by looking at the cigar we get the impression that shyne doesn’t care if people look at him when he smokes. On the other hand the way his head is tilted, this gives the impression that he is looking down at the reader and his eyes are not opened wide so this looks like he is thinking in his head thoroughly.

The cover line at the bottom quoting “SHYNE” is placed at the bottom, immediately we can recognize that the person on the front cover’s name is SHYNE. The masthead XXL has been placed on at the top left, as the reader if take a look at the front cover we see two things which crab our attention the main image of Shyne and the masthead XXL the masthead has been enlarged due to its title of course. The red and the white goes well it connotes the magazine name well, as soon as the reader looks they notice the xxl masthead also the size of the masthead attracts the customer buying the magazine because of the colours of masthead and image as the customer can see this from far. The cover lines have been aligned to the right hand side of the page, the cover lines normally tell us what topics the magazine have covered in that edition, in this edition some cover lines have a rhetorical question, the magazine are making we the readers think about that specific topic they have covered and they have printed the article. In this edition the dateline is on the top of the barcode. The dateline often consists of they year and the month. Meanwhile if we see the barcode, at the bottom of the the magazine have the magazines website, this is another advertising method used by magazines to sell there brand, regular customers would most likely order either online on there website or in stores.