4) Country front cover - music magazine - Johnny Cash

Hello, today i will be analysing this music magazine by Country. Take a look:

The colours used in the front cover of this music magazine are quite bold and bland as the main colour is black and white. However, there are a couple colours that make the writing stand out such as orange and grey. This helps the magazine stand out more and to help catch the eye. The writing is in the colour of either black or white and this may be because it's not boring or anything like that, but because it's showing the age of Johnny Cash through the magazine. As he is quite old now, that is being reflected through the front cover of this magazine. 

I really like the colour theme that is running through this magazine front cover. I will be using this as an inspiration towards my own front cover as the colours that has been used will be of a use to me. As the colours are not bright and colourful, they are bold and dull, but that doesn't matter to me as i think that the colour matches my theme and the images that i am choosing will match with the colour.

The placement is again, quite ironic as there is only one main image used so that is where the eye goes when focusing on the magazine. However, the placement of the writing is important simply because of the way the image is set up, it's so we can know information about the main image of the magazine. On the other hand, the placement of the orange text and information also means that our eyes are more drawn to that side of the front cover. 

Again, i like the placement of this image as it is right near the centre and is definitely eye catchy. So, in order for me to be able to get the look i want for my magazine front cover, i am going to use this front cover as an inspiration so that i will be placing my images around about the same place in order to achieve what i want. However, the way that the titles and headlines are placed are also in specific way that i would like to use for my own magazine. I like how the title of the magazine is at the top and i will do this for my own, but i would like to add more headlines so that it makes the magazine more interesting so that people would want to read it.

The type of image used is showing the genre. So depending on the artist that is on the cover, it is showing us the type of music. As it is a country music magazine, it will obviously be a country artist. But, other music magazines will not be as obvious in showing the genre of the magazine as the title will be different. The image is definitely an important piece for a front cover as it needs to be eye catchy, informative and fashionable to get more views.

The image that i will be using will contrast well with the genre that i have chosen. I like to have the image match with my genre as it will help the magazine co-ordinate well with each other. Again, i will be using more than one image to help with that.