Front Cover Analysis for Classic rock magazine

This is the front cover magazine for Classic Rock. As you can see, the masthead of this magazine is in the back ground, you cant see it as Slash in the main image is covering it with his hat. Although the masthead isn't very visible, you are still able to now what this magazine is and also what genre it is. The masthead is big, bold, and white which stands out on the dark black background. Its written in serif font and is all capitalised. 

The colours used on this front cover of the magazine are very dark. They mainly use black, as its rock. If they'd of used brighter colours and a lot more light you might not be able to tell that it was a Rock magazine. There is the yellow also used in some of the buzz words such as 'revealed' and 'buh-bye' and the sticker on the right hand side making an article inside the magazine stand out to attract the audiences attention that that particular article. The use of yellow stands out on the back ground and stand out even more than what the white fonts do. 

The main image is a medium close up of Slash. The convention of this image to make you know that he is part of the same genre as the magazine is the representation of him. The hair, the props, the colours, the outfit, the pose and expression on his face. He's smoking, giving of the stereotypical impression that he's bad, he's harsh, people involved in this kind of genre do drugs and smoke and are bad and aggressive. Not the kind of person you'd see on the front cover of a pop magazine for example. His pose and his expression is expressionless. He has the shades on to cover his eyes, his hair is all big and curly and frizzy and in his face. He has piercings as you can see on his nose, the chains around his neck. He's not a young man, he's middle aged which links into the 'classic' rock. 

The target audience for this particular magazine i would say would be for the older people, maybe when they was younger and this genre of music was the big thing and also some younger people will be targeted at this audience to as they might like this genre as well. Younger children wont be targeted at this magazine because it wont appeal to them; all the dark colours and smoking and aggressiveness. They'd want more colours and cleanliness and happy smiling celebrities on the front cover, preferably not smoking. 

The main headline is big bold and yet again white linking into the masthead. Serif font still but this times it's not all capitalised. 

The only thing that doesn't work for me on this magazine is the 'free cd!' sticker in the corner, its red and white which stands out but looks out of place, that sticker could be put on any magazine, it doesn't link up the rock genre.