Task 2- Additional Case Studies- Magazine review: Vibe

When I went to research some music magazines I wanted to use the music magazine VIBE. When I was analysing the front cover of this magazine I saw that the masthead was the biggest font in the background of the image they have picked for this magazine. This shows the brand of the magazine. The image they use is an image of the famous artist Nicki Minaj. The image is a medium shot and she is giving a side look towards the audience. The colour code for the fromt cover is mainly orange, white and black. The fact that this magazine has used orange is very eye catchy, this is because normal magazines will prefer colours like red or blue. The orange gives a calm view to the magazine but also a classy look. Nicki Minaj's hair is also orange so they have made sure that the shot was perfect for the colour scheme as well as grabbing the audiences attention. For this magazine there are also some other small information around the cover page, it is in a simple format for everyone to read easily. For the writing on the cover page I analysed that some words are in bold and some are not, then I saw that the famous artists names were in bold, now this automatically caught my eye because the bold words made me read them and see what the small informatiom was giving me. There is also a main cover line which does say the name of the image, the font for the main coverline is the second biggest font as this is what is meant to catch the auiences eyes straight away. Also at the top of the magazine, on top of the masthead there is also some other informations like artists names that will be in the magazine. 

The content page for VIBE is very simple amd set in a formal way. For the content page I analysed that there is the main image filling up the whole page of the comtent page. There are also the page numbers and what are on that page, this is all set in chronological order from 1 up to when the pages are ended. This information is all on the right hand side. There are also set in categories: Features, and also Fashion, so it is very easy to find out what page you are looking for. Next to the image on the content page there is given a little information, as I could not find a proper image of the content page I cannot read what is writen on that information, but I am guessing it is about Kanye West in the image. In the backgroud of the image there is a big 'V' with writing 'CONTENT' the V represents the brand of the magazine so it is 'VIBE'.