Rolling stones front cover and contents page collage

Rolling Stones front cover and contents page collage
My second collage is of the Rolling Stones magazine front covers.

this is my rolling stones contents page analysis which will help me see the different types of layouts that this magazine uses.

the next thing I have done is an analysis of the rolling stones front cover and contents page this will help be decide what type of style I would like to use for my own magazine.

The next contents page that I am going to analyse is the rolling stones. The rolling stones do not have a specific genre as every time they produce a magazine the use a different type of artist or band. Sometimes the rolling stones magazine does not always feature a main person who is a singer on in a band, they produce a TV magazine sometimes but it also features some music artists in it also. The rolling stones magazine is published by Jann Wenner who is one of the founders of the magazine and he is also the editor and chief of the magazine.

My first impression of this contents page when I saw it was that it had a lot of content in it but it was still easy to navigate. I like how they put the feature articles by themselves, then the department article and then I like how they put a separate part for the main person featured in this magazine who was John Oliver. It is something that I would like to do for my own magazine as it think that the simple layout would attract young people.

You can tell that the target audience for this magazine are young people who are interested in not only music but television as well which means that the buyers of the magazine will increase because there is a lot of different content every time the magazine is produced. This particular issue is a TV issue which means it is probably targeted for people who like TV more than they like music although it does include some music articles.

In the contents page they stayed consistent with their house style by using the three main colours that they always use which are black, white and red. Although they have used some different colours throughout the magazine as this is the TV edition so they have used colours like yellow, blue, green and pink which would attract to a younger audience. These type of colours would also grab the reader’s attention and make them want to buy the magazine. 

Overall I think that the layout of this contents page would be great for my magazine and I would like to take some bits of it and incorporate them into my own contents page. I like how the split the entire article into different sections as this allows the reader to go to the section that they want to go to. I like how the contents page includes picture so that it just doesn’t look dull and boring. The pictures attract the reader to look down at the content page which means they will want to read it. This has also helped me to see what a proper high end music magazine looks like and has given me ideas for my own music magazine.

Rolling stones magazine cover analysis.

The next cover I have decided to analyse is one of the latest issues from the rolling stones magazine. It features John Oliver and even though it is the TV edition I am still able to analyse it has it features some aspects of music. Jann Weener is the publisher of this magazine, he is also the editor and chief and the founder of the magazine.

When I first glanced at this magazine I could tell that it was the rolling stones magazine straight away because of the masthead and the house style of the front cover. Even though John Oliver’s head is covering a part of the masthead regular buyers of the magazine are still able to tell what it is called as the magazine is well known. This magazine caught my attention as it is bright and has lots of different articles jumping out at me.

There is no specific genre for this magazine so therefore I think that the audience would be of any age. I think that people buy this magazine because they are interested in music and TV programmes. The target audience would mostly be from America as the rolling stones usually just use American artists and TV shows although sometimes they use artists and TV shows from other countries.  The rolling stones have produced the magazine so that people who are interested in TV and music get to find out about all the latest news in that industry.

There is only one image on this front cover and it takes up over 95 per cent of the page. This is a common convention of the rolling stones magazine as in nearly every issue they have produced there is only one large image on it. The image is of John Oliver and as there is only image it lets buyers know that the magazine is going to be featured around him and that he is the main person of this week’s issue.  The image of John Oliver is a mid-shot which follows another convention of the rolling stones magazine as they always use a mid-shot for most cover images as it really lets the readers see the facial expression and helps them to familiarise themselves with the person. 

The mast head is on the top of the page and it is stretched across the whole way. It is red with a white outlining that you cannot really see although the masthead looks quite 3D as it is all in capitals. It also looks 3D as each letter has a black shadowing on behind it this helps the masthead jump out at the target audience. Each article on the front cover is featured on the left and right of the page. By doing this it doesn’t ruin the image and when readers are looking at the image nothing is on it that would distract them. The main image of this magazine is slightly on top of the middle of the

masthead which means you cannot see it although the Rolling Stones magazine uses the exact same colours and title font every time they produce their masthead which means people can easily recognise it as the rolling stones even though it is covered.

The cover lines on the left hand side of the page are in black, red and white. These are the main colours that they usually use. Although at the other side of the page they have broken one of their house styles as they have the cover lines in a bigger font and also in various different colours. They may have done this to bring in a younger crowd as the bright colours would attract them. Each of the cover lines are all in capital letters which will attract any reader to buy the magazine. 

In one particular cover line it says it says the name few shows then they have said “plus the greatest shows that never were” this will entice any reader to buy the magazine as they will be intrigued to find out more. I like how at the top there is stripes that come down on the side of the page and then it says the TV issue this clearly indicates to people that most of this will be about TV but some will be about different music. The colours of the stripes also correspond to the colours of the cover lines on the right side of the page which I think is a great idea and would be cool to use in my magazine.