The Rolling Stones is a popular magazine company conveying differential music genres, this particular issue illustrates Lady Gaga, an American recording artist who continues to outshine her own potential weekly. The Rolling Stones popularity is showed whilst the Masthead is covered up, this illustrates that the magazine is a well known institution, another factor which highlights the popularity is the choice of pink background on the magazine. Rolling stones usually attracts both sex genres of audience however the pink background introduces a female audience this emphasises the popularity of the Rolling Stones magazine, and that the institution no longer need to attract a certain audience as past magazines have achieved this already, and now have a strong repetitive established audience. However in contrast the lack of clothing on Lady Gaga attracts sex appeal which seeks the attention of a male audience, in my opinion I feel that the clothing and pink cancel one another out to seek both sex genres.
Kickers and Tellers are used repeatedly throughout the cover of the magazine; the kickers are portrayed in a white font which contrasts against the pink background, additionally they are capitalised and in a bold font which instantly seeks the attention of the audience which encourages them to turn into the magazine. However in contrast the tellers are portrayed in a larger font then the kickers which are unusual as usually the kickers are bigger. This relates back to the point I made earlier, where the magazine doesn’t need to include all the typical magazine conventions as it is already a popular and established magazine.
“The rise of Lady Gaga” holds down the image of Lady Gaga also known as anchorage, this enables the audience to know that the feature story will be about Lady Gaga, the lack of clothing and bubbles surrounding her show a controversial image which contradicts The Rolling Stones traditional music genre. The bubbles illustrate her personality, and shows that she is different from other Artists as her videos have already established this. The large image of her anchors the kicker and shows that she is dominant to the audience, I feel that this issue of the magazine will attract a differential niche market then what the other Rolling Stones magazines have as well as the usual established audience.
As well as the mast head being covered the price of the magazine is located in a different place to the usual conventions, usually the price and date of a magazine would be located next to the bar code, usually bottom right of the magazine. However on this issue of The Rolling Stones the price is located at the top of the magazine in almost an unreadable text. The text is white which stands out against the pink background but in contrast is extremely small which makes it almost unreadable for the audience. This could be due to the institution and the establishment, due to it attracting a niche market the audience will know what the existing price is therefore don’t need to look for it, as well as an advantage it can be clearly seen at the top of the magazine.
Through analysing this magazine I have chosen not to use a coloured background which could only relate to a male or female audience due to the fact that music magazines only attract a niche market therefore I would be weakening the target audience, my first initial plan was to use a pink background and a female artist however I have come to the conclusion that it will only attract a female audience, and also finding colours that interact with pink would be extremely hard. Secondly I will hopefully include a wider application of media terminology where as I found there wasn’t much to analyse.
Kickers and Tellers are used repeatedly throughout the cover of the magazine; the kickers are portrayed in a white font which contrasts against the pink background, additionally they are capitalised and in a bold font which instantly seeks the attention of the audience which encourages them to turn into the magazine. However in contrast the tellers are portrayed in a larger font then the kickers which are unusual as usually the kickers are bigger. This relates back to the point I made earlier, where the magazine doesn’t need to include all the typical magazine conventions as it is already a popular and established magazine.
“The rise of Lady Gaga” holds down the image of Lady Gaga also known as anchorage, this enables the audience to know that the feature story will be about Lady Gaga, the lack of clothing and bubbles surrounding her show a controversial image which contradicts The Rolling Stones traditional music genre. The bubbles illustrate her personality, and shows that she is different from other Artists as her videos have already established this. The large image of her anchors the kicker and shows that she is dominant to the audience, I feel that this issue of the magazine will attract a differential niche market then what the other Rolling Stones magazines have as well as the usual established audience.
As well as the mast head being covered the price of the magazine is located in a different place to the usual conventions, usually the price and date of a magazine would be located next to the bar code, usually bottom right of the magazine. However on this issue of The Rolling Stones the price is located at the top of the magazine in almost an unreadable text. The text is white which stands out against the pink background but in contrast is extremely small which makes it almost unreadable for the audience. This could be due to the institution and the establishment, due to it attracting a niche market the audience will know what the existing price is therefore don’t need to look for it, as well as an advantage it can be clearly seen at the top of the magazine.
Through analysing this magazine I have chosen not to use a coloured background which could only relate to a male or female audience due to the fact that music magazines only attract a niche market therefore I would be weakening the target audience, my first initial plan was to use a pink background and a female artist however I have come to the conclusion that it will only attract a female audience, and also finding colours that interact with pink would be extremely hard. Secondly I will hopefully include a wider application of media terminology where as I found there wasn’t much to analyse.
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