Salford City CollegeEccles CentreAS Media StudiesFoundation Portfolio

Masthead

‘Rollingstones’ in the original colour and font, behind the model. Using the classical font and colour that is synonymous with the brand, and genre. The masthead is also in the key area (top of the page)

Main image

The main image is of Miley Cyrus, it feature her wearing nothing but gold jewellery emerging from a swimming pool. The rock and roll, slightly provocative image is very common for the rolling stones and it also breaks away from the regular front cover conventions.

Model credit & Main Cover Line

The model credit and Main cover line are both featured together (could have been used to help keep the [page looking clean and simplistic). The cover line is ‘Good golly miss Miley’ it is in a large font that is beside the model. The cover line attracts the reader as it is suggestive as does not saying what she has done. Also I could be suggested that it is a reference to her southern roots and there for be slightly tongue in cheek reference to the model.

Coverline

The cover lines are all kept to the left hand side and de4crese in size as they move downwards. There are 6 cover lines that are all varied in topics, ranging from music related news that would appeal to the rolling stones fan base ‘ the last days of nirvana’ to topical news that could be used to again grab the reader’s attention with the use of keys words like ‘war’ and hot’.

Colour

There are a lot of contrasting colours in this as there are lots of pinks and blue and then blacks and reds. The use of these contrasting colours makes the page vibrant and interesting even though there are not a lot of cover lines. This balances works well. Also the black eye makeup on the model is very striking again the pale skin and soft background. Also the use of the washed out blue background helps separate the model from her background and has cleverly been used.

Typefaces

The types faces used are all serif fonts which create a harmonious planed look that works well as this fonts is usually associated with formal features yet the main image is very provocative and this contras works well.

Photography Lighting

The image is very well lit and is nearly slightly over exposed. This brightness creates lots of contrast of white highlights and black shadows. I could take a guess that not only natural lighting (due to it being outdoors) was used, lighting systems where used as it very professional looking.

Design Principles Used?

There does not seem to be any strong use of a design principle as there is very minimal written content. The layout has been used to help frame the model as this was the main feature of this front cover.

House Style

The house style is simplicity fonts with contrasting colours. The icon title sat behind the model and the mix of warm and cold colours to help balance out the overall look.

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