rolling stone magazine analysis
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Ideology
The Rolling Stone Magazine is both contemporary and classic culture. However the Magazine
features all from the music sector. Television programs, films
and much more of the media products.
Target Audience
The Audience of Rolling Stone Magazine is the young and very
mainstream audience of 15-24, with the magazine content being largely popular culture often focusing on actors, television and pop music.
Publishing Institutions
Rolling Stone is a U.s based magazine, which devotes it’s content to music,
politics and popular culture, it is published bi=weekly. It was first
published in 1967 by founder Jann Wenner and Ralph J.Gleason and is
currently on it’s 1118th issue. It reaches a circulation of 1.4million and is published
by the company Wenyer Media. The Magazine is based in New York
The front cover of this edition is featuring
Shakira a musical artist known all over for her outstanding work. The
way she is presented on the cover canvas a
message of her being a very modest and natural
women.
The right hand side is also
reserving space for extra
information but isn’t important
enough to be on the left side.
The main cover line about the artist is significantly yet is
still in front of lines and is attracting more attention
towards it.
The color scheme of the magazine is based on very simple bunch of colors such as Grey and White with the artist image in contrast with darker colors such as black
etc.
The Rolling Stone logo on the top of the cover is a traditional tittle for
the rolling Stone Magazine carried out
since a long time
The left hand side writing is the most
important section of the magazine front cover as it contains
most visible and important
information of the cover page.
The heading line of the content page
written is white on the red stripe attracts the
audiences eye towards it.
The writing format of this page is very
simple yet elegant and is written in different font sizes altogether
but at the same time it looks very eye
catching.
The date of the magazine is also
giver at the bottom of the page.
The background of this page is plain white which enhances the writings and pictures
presented on it.
There is no center Image and so the three pics on
the left are given in order to make up for
that lack. These three images also provide more info about the
Images in the magazine then one single picture
can do.
The page numbers at the bottom help the
reader navigate itself through the pages to
articles that are listened and allocated to certain
pages.
The tittle of this context
represents the motive and the
issue of the story that’s
written beneath it’s bold writing pattern also
attracts attention
towards it.The writing being bold and in a simple font seems very neat and organized and so it feels
like much easier to be read.
The girl with the main image in this double fold
is wearing a casual shirt with
ego styling which connects the teenaged
audience increasingly
connected with the article
The background being plain
white is boasting the
impression on the image,
tittle and the story.
As the tittle in very simple and a common problem of the teenagers of these days that they
are easily miss judged in to being of wrong personality and character. This tittle will connect
a lot of people to the article and so more audience will be attracted.