Magazine Cover Review

 

Magazine Cover Review

            The cover of a magazine is very important, it is the first thing the reader sees. The cover must attract people’s attention so they will want to flip through it. The cover image can have a huge impact, it can have a political meaning to it or have a picture of a celebrity. If a magazine does it right the one picture of the celebrity will do more that just show what they look like but show what they are about and who they are. For example, GQ did a cover with the Hip Hop artists Travis Scott. On the cover you see Travis Scotts name is in a font that is bolded and dripping to the left. The picture of Travis Scott shows off who he is by putting him in an outfit he would wear. The dark background helps to high light Travis Scott and make his features stand out more, like his tattoos. On Rolling stones cover they get political with the famous rapper Lil Baby. The background in the cover photo shows a broken-down building, this is to help symbolize the uprising of Lil Baby. Also saying that he is the sound of rebellion, all of this shows Lil Baby as someone not to mess with. Cover images have a powerful effect on readers, it is the reason why someone would pick up the magazine. Both magazines do a fantastic job of inducing this effect.

            Some magazines have a specific group of people that they market their magazine issues too. The magazine Essence is marketed towards women with money. On the front cover is La La Anthony, she is looking eloquent and dressed in nice clothes. As you flip through the magazine the first few pages are expensive designer clothing brands. These clothing brands are meant for the wealthy, so they market the magazine towards the wealthy. The magazine cosmopolitan also markets towards women, by looking at the front cover of one of there magazines we see that it is clearly meant for women. For example, they show the title to an article in the magazine “Will you Ever put Heels on Again”. Obviously, more women than men wear heels. The magazine Forbes is all about money and the ultra-rich. They market to the rich, flipping through the magazine you will see ads for designer clothing brands and expensive watches. Not everyone can buy these expensive items but the super-rich will and I bet that the super-rich like to read about the super-rich.           

            It is believed that people are not reading magazine articles as much as people used too. According to Michael Scherer, who wrote the article “Chances are you won’t bother to read this article.” He says that this is due to the short attention spans young people have nowadays. Michael tells us that Ed Needham the editor for Rolling Stone does not read articles anymore because he does not have the time. As much as the reading aspect of magazines is dwindling, magazines are still in business and people still decide to buy them.

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