Rewind Cover

Rewind magazine features popular and urban music. It includes all new and recent music in the charts so will appeal to a wide variety of people. People that listen to chart music will tend to buy this magazine so these type of artists will be featured inside. For example on this particular cover Tinchy Stryder is the main image. This will immediately attract the target audience as he is a current well-known artist. The image is a waist up shot of the artist with cameras around him suggesting that he is of the popular genre. The title of the magazine is in the masthead and is in a bright red, bold font which will grab the attention of the buyer. Also, the title is easily recognisable as it has a unique font and design. However, the title is behind the main image on the magazine so it may not be as noticeable and people will see the image foremost rather than the name. This will make it less obvious to the audience what they are buying as it doesn’t stand out. The magazine cover uses a particular colour scheme too, giving it a theme. The predominant colours used are black, white and red which compliment each other well and will make the magazine stand out. The main cover line is in a larger font than the other cover lines which will make the reader spot it easily and suggests it’s the most appealing story. The cover line is in a fancier and appealing font too, which will stand out from the other text. Therefore the cover line has to be interesting and attract the specific target audience. In this case the main cover line is of the featured artist on the cover so will attract the audience as he is of the popular genre. This will easily grab the attention of the reader so needs to stand out. The artists tag line ‘Star in the hood’ is also placed underneath the cover line. Along the route of the eye are the title and some cover lines, including the main feature one. The other cover lines on this magazine are smaller and are teasers of what is inside the magazine, including things like interviews with artists and new recent artists that are currently in the charts. These are all things which will immediately attract the target audience. Also some cover lines are around the hotspot zones which means the audience will see them easily and therefore need to be interesting. The left side of the magazine has no text so the design isn’t symmetrical. All of the cover lines are places on the right side of the page. Overall this front cover design is quite effective as it isn’t cluttered and is easily readable. This will attract the audience as it’s quite simple. However there isn’t a vast amount of text and the cover looks quite plain. This could put people off buying the magazine or reading it as they don’t know much about what genre of music or what sort of stories to expect inside.