Magazine Front Cover Summary

All of the magazines front covers include many similarities and patterns which seem to be effective and engage with their demographic successfully. Firstly, they all have a plug which feature other artists included inside of the magazine and how they are an important aspect to their magazine front cover. This gets the reader tempted as it expands its demographic using other well-known artists. I have decided that this will be featured on my front cover as it instantly pulls in the reader and expands the demographic. Secondly, they all use an effective feature article photograph to label the magazine significantly and to aspire the typical audience. Un-hesitantly I will use an effective main subject to bring character and creativity to my front cover.  Furthermore, all three of the magazine have a cover line besides or above the masthead. Ironically they announce their importance and how they are the most popular magazine representing their genre. In the cover line which features the main subject’s name, the typography is larger than all the text on the front cover (apart from the masthead). 

However, some differences appear. This may be because of the demographic and genre. ‘B&S’ and ‘Jazzwise’ don’t contain much white space and fill up the front cover using plugs and puffs. Meanwhile, ‘mixmag’ contains huge amounts of white space and very little typography which does not seem like the typical magazine front cover that engages with reader. Learning from this I will keep white space minimal and allow my front cover to include many plugs and puffs. ‘B&S’ also use a very creative range of colours which is effective as it excites the readers and instantly stands out amongst all the other magazines with a very basic colour scheme, e.g. Jazzwise and mixmag. The background of ‘mixmag’ and ‘Jazzwise’ are basic but portray a more laid back background whilst ‘B&S’ is more noisy and exciting.