As my music magazine is aimed at a prodominantly male, rock-music loving audience, I tried to design a cover that would represent their culture appropriately to draw them in. This was mainly achieved by emphasising the fame of the cover artist that is obviously widely famous and popular. The potential readers would (hopefully) relate to the artist and be enticed to read further.
My model wears clothing that is similar to popular rock stars' featured on the cover of other magazines and although his clothing is 'plain', it doesn't take away from his image. On the contrary, the plain clothes work well and enhance the image with its simplicity. The image relates well to the particular social groups that the magazine is aimed at due to the age of the musician, his casual clothing style and the guitar he is holding. This all comes together to create the image of a rock star, he fully represents the vision of a real rock star enhanced even further by the 'spotlight' style background
Other aspects of the magazine also help to create the 'rock' feel to the magazine such as the contrasting, dark colour scheme and the large 'shouting' masthead. Examples from other magazines are below.
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