Front Cover Research 5- MOJO

Main Image:

• The image of the artist covers the name of the magazine, implying the magazine represents a certain type of audience and is not trying to gain new readers.
• Black and white is a major colour theme. However red and blue also feature. These are typically masculine colours suggesting the target audience is male.
• Madonna, suggests the main article is about her as she dominates the cover.
• The artist is almost looking down on the reader, showing how powerful she is. This suggests it is aimed at a more mature target audience.
• Choice of colours and images convey quite an edgy feel for the magazine.

The edgy body language links with the genre of music from this magazine as it represents how the reader feels when they listen to this music.  For my magazine, I want to convey a similar image using the same body language to make my artist looking powerful.  However I would use a different colour scheme so that it looked less edgy, as my target audience would be young women.