Rolling Stone:
These two front covers of Rolling Stone, use different camera shots and angles to represent the artist’s genre of music. The camera shots are used to appeal to the artist's audience. As Rolling Stone is not just aimed at one genre of music, the target audience of the magazine may vary depending on who is on the cover of a particular issue.
The cover on the left shows a medium close-up of Taylor Swift holding a guitar. The guitar is part of Taylor's image and is also symbolic of the Country music she is known for. The image shows Taylor wearing more make-up than she usually does, which makes her more attractive to her target audience. In the image used on this cover, Taylor is not smiling, this could be related to the heading placed under her name 'Secrets of a Good Girl' suggesting that Taylor has a secret that will be revealed in this issue, making the audience want to read the article inside.
The cover on the right shows a medium shot of the Jonas Brothers. The band's target audience are teenage girls whom this image will appeal to because of the clothing worn by the band. The brothers are wearing purity rings which can be seen on Joe (middle.) This relates to 'God' in the subheading. 'Guitars' could be the reason they are wearing that particular style of clothing, compared to usually looking more 'pop culture' than 'rock'.
The masthead is a different colour on each issue although it is the same font. The change in colour could be to tie-in with the musician used on the cover and the style of their image. The subheadings are a different font on each issue. On the Taylor Swift front cover, the font used for her name is fairly plain and white, which is a main theme on this front cover as white is the only colour used besides the shadow of the masthead and the image of Taylor Swift. Unlike the Jonas Brothers cover, which has subheadings in a white font with a red outline, this could be to continue the theme of red on this particular front cover which is also used to separate the subheadings on the left-hand side. A similarity of both covers is that they both contain white, which is found on almost every issue of a Rolling Stone magazine. The simple and white font makes the headings bold and easy to read.
The font used on each cover is placed neatly and aligned which will appeal to readers of this magazine. The placement of the subheadings (on different sides each issue) could be related to the liberal view on politics the Rolling Stone magazine has.
NME:
These two front covers of NME use different camera shots and angles to attract the audience to the magazine. Both issues are different in the genre of music they are appealing to therefore there is a different audience targeted. This is shown through the style of the image and the colour scheme of the magazine.
The front cover on the right shows Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine in a close-up shot. The colour of her hair in contrast with her face and the colour scheme of this NME issue is bold and captures the eye from a distance although it is a lot more subtle and simple in comparison to the Paramore front cover which has a lot more colour and compact text of different bright and bold colours. In the image on the right, Hayley Williams (center) is seen with more make up which will appeal to the male aspect of the target audience as she looks more attractive and is also posing with a slight 'attitude' this could appeal to fans of this particular genre of music.
The front cover on the right shows a medium shot of Paramore with lead singer Hayley Williams at a medium close-up. This could be to attract the attention of the audience, specifically a male audience as she is placed within reach in comparison to the male members of the band. Although in different colours, the name of both artists' on both covers is in block capitals in a bold colour that stands out from the image and other text. The pose that Hayley is standing in can be perceived as perhaps seductive which relates to the subheading surrounding the bands name 'Everyone else has fallen for them, will you?' This could also be why Hayley is wearing bold make-up matching the bands name.
The mastheads on both of these NME covers is the same font however in different colours to go appropriately with the colour scheme of that particular issue. The masthead on the left is in plain block capitals in white with no border on indentations. However, the masthead on the right is in block capitals red, with a black and white border. This could be because the Paramore front cover is a lot more compact, bold and colourful than the simply yet effective design of the Florence cover on the right.
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