Magazine Analysis

Rolling stone magazine

I think that this magazine's target audience would be 18-26 year old, as the people on the cover are a similar age group, and it would be more appeal to this audience.
The title of the magazine is 'Rolling Stone' this has the connotations of a 'rolling stone gathers no moss' this saying means that something is always moving and never standing still, which could relate to the magazine always being up to date. It has the denotations of it being related to music, because of the group 'the rolling stones'.

The cover of this magazine has a large image of Zac Afron on a clear white background which dominates the cover. His pose has the typical masculine conventions for a magazine cover, as he is revealing a bit of his body and holding his chest with his arms to try and show of some muscle. He is also smiling and looking in a different direction, this gives a more innocent nature to his pose so that he looks seductive but in a discreet way.

The headings are laid out so that they are all down one side of the page, but it uses a range of font sizes to make it look more interesting, and maintains a orange, grey, red and yellow colour scheme which is very effective. The heading 'The new American heart throb' is made clear that it is referring to Zac Afron as it is slightly overlapping his image and is in a larger font to the other headings to stand out, with his name written smaller beneath. So it is made clear that they want to draw the readers attention to Zac Afron and interest them in reading more about him.