KMAG Front Cover

KMAG

Photography: The Picture used is that of multiple men sitting at a table at an angle with the men at the back being smaller as they are further away, this being the only picture and covering the entire front cover of the magazine, the lighting is dark around the sides yet not in the middle so the men’s faces can be seen indicating that they may be someone that people know/ recognise such as a band.

Colours scheme: The colour scheme has used dark colours such as browns, dark greens and dark reds (which could represent the genre of music) for the picture while using light colours made up of blues, yellows and whites overlaps this which allows these bright colours to stand out from the background

Writing Style:  There is hardly any text on the front cover unlike over magazines but to make up for it, the cover has instead used bright colours to contradict (Juxtapose) the background By using yellow, white and light blue on a dark green and brown background. What is interesting is that in one of the magazines I reviewed, they colour coded numbers to be red whereas in this situation, Unlike that article, anything here that is Yellow or white  is only spelt using an informal register which is by spelling only with  capital letters while blue writing uses a normal register of writing. All the text has the same font with no bold or italics but the works ‘SHOGUN AUDIO’ is larger than the rest meaning that this takes dominance over the rest of the text and is more important as the larger something is, the more attention it attracts.

Overall look: It is bland yet looks interesting because of this. because of the lighting used within the picture, although the picture is seen more, I believe that the text in empowered in this situation as I am focusing more on the text than the background picture.

Text/Picture ratio: The picture to text ratio is about 15:85 with the picture being 85 but in this situation,  as I have said within the  ‘Overall look’ section, The text is powering over the background image.

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing, formerly Vision Publishing

14/11/2011