front cover TA 2

This is another XXL magazine, they mainly cover hip hop and rap, I picked this magazine due to the fact, the cover was different to other front covers from magazines.
Featuring the magazine is Ludacris a rapper, with some sort of camera, with a caption saying "ludacris will shoot yo ass" this quote on the front, The quote goes well with the image of him well because the camera gun connotes the caption. The seriousness on his face at the reader, tells he looks like he's going to shoot them. The front cover has done a good job connoting the image and caption. Another aspect is that when we concentrate on his hands holding the camera gun, he holding the handle like he's about to shoot them and the fact he is looking through the lens, it connotes he aiming for someone.Overall if we look at the image, of ludacris we get the hint that he's not a happy person by his facial expressions and his actions on the front cover. Meanwhile if we read the pull quote we get the expression, he's not the person to come across.

The page colour scheme is an excellent one , because the main aspect the magazine want to get out is the main cover story so they have chosen colours like black and white mainly on the page to make Ludacris stand out. meanwhile normally we see the masthead always large and the masthead is the second aspect we see when we look at magazines on shop shelfs but on this edition they have positioned the masthead behind Ludacris's head, we dont see the "l. My view is that people who buy this magazine regularly, know straight away its XXL. The Mastehad for XXL has bold white text on a red background. This may signal a clothes tag (size) because they want the masthead to stand out they have used the white on red background and XXl makes us think something big. finally the cover lines have been aligned on the left and right, so they dont interfere with the main image, the colour scheme of the text is black which goes very well with the white background the cover lines stand aswell.