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Page 1: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis
Page 2: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis

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.

Page 3: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis

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.

Page 4: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis

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

Page 5: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis

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.

Page 6: Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis

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.

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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.