Front cover TA 3

This magazine is the source magazine which is very similar to XXL. They cover hip-hop, like XXL magazine. The cover story is about the beastie boys, The image is in black and white, which makes the masthead stand out which is in red. The way the image is bleeding from the page gives the magazine a wider look, the text is laid out in strips a strip of text on the top and the second strip is three quarters down the page. The three colours of text they have used is Red, lime green and white, these colours make the text stand out on the image.
Personally, the cover looks very dull to me because of the colour they have used on the image, the image doesn't look very appealing to me.
The cover image of the beastie boys, makes us look they are judging the reader, it suggests to me that they are thinking about something coming towards them. The puddle of water in front of them stands out well, this may suggest they have a boundary in front of them to protect them, from someone maybe who they are staring at very eagerly.