Further Analysis of Cover Pages

This is quite an interesting cover as it is very simplistic and follows a minimalist design. The image is interesting as it doesn't follow the typical conventions of an image on the front cover of a magazine. Usually the artist is looking directly out of the page instead of looking away, in order to create a direct appeal and synthetic relationship with the audience. This cover interested me as one of the images which i have taken for my draft magazine is similar to this. I like the image however do not think it would be satisfactory as the artist is not looking directly out of the page. It is interesting to see how this edition of variety magazine has used other features to compliment this image. Although i do not wish to follow this style directly for my final magazine it would be interesting to look at it and see if i could make it work. I like how the colour scheme on the page is kept very minimal which keeps the magazine looking slick and neat and tidy. I prefer this to having a magazine with lots of clustered information on. The masthead has an interesting font and probably stands out more than the image in the way that the cover page is presented. It also means that the font at the bottom stands out well. The black and white editing of the image is also interesting as this is done to match the text that is displayed over and around the image, again adding to the minimalist design. I think this kind of style may work well on my magazine, hence why i took an interest in this front cover. I believe that my chosen genre has two quite contrasting sub categories. One aspect of the genre concerns being bold, being different and following quite brash trends such as we'd expect to see from artists like Nicki Minaj and Rihanna. However another aspect of the genre concerns being classy and slick, and would involve the use of other colours such as black and white to give a clean cut and neat look to the page, a little bit like this cover does.