This is a copy of the latest dazed and confused issue

featuring Daft Punk, a French house duo.

Having looked at various previous covers the only

common convention I can see is the masthead remains

in the same place. The background in this is a brown

colour which lends itself to the white masthead as It

makes it stand out along with the two artists who are

dressed in white and black contrasting clothing which

also makes them stand out from the background.

Their attire on this cover is reminiscent of a

conductors and when couple with the word “encore”

makes it seem that they have composed something

along with buzzwords like “compose”. This issue has

the article they’re in as 3D which is due to the film

who's soundtrack they composed being 3D which is

why they use the phrase “Another Dimension”.

They are the only thing on the front cover apart from

the list of artists on the bottom but because of the size

of the font and the placing on the cover, they are

relying heavily on daft punk to sell this magazine

because the other artists names would be covered in a

magazine stand.

Cover Analysis

This is a copy of the English music magazine NME

and features 2 members the virtual band Gorillaz as

well the man who created them and sings the vocals in

the band.

Having looked at various previous covers the trending

colour scheme for the magazine is Red, White and

black. The cover shows the two characters of the band

Damon created drugging him which implies that

they’re rising up against him.

Another Convention of NME is the cover is pretty full

of things going on. There is lots of text that stand out

against the brown background along with exclamatory

statements like “reality Blurs!”. This is both a pun

because Damon is in the band blur and because the

two cartoon characters have “come to life” in the same

room as him and questions posed that may want to

make the potential customer read the magazine. As

usual, the barcode is on the bottom right.

The cover also has other artists names hat feature in

this instalment and this is another convention used by

NME. They use bands at the top of the magazine that

may appeal more to the magazines demographic and at

the bottom more “popular” bands on the bottom,

interestingly they’ve put the barcode above which is

unusual.

Cover Analysis

This is a copy of the American rock music magazine

Rolling Stone featuring the grunge rock band Nirvana.

The music also strays into other areas such as politics

and popular culture.

Having looked at various previous covers I see that the

articles that could be deemed important in the

magazine tend to be the same colour as the masthead.

The Cover features Nirvana who’s frontman was

known for not letting the money go to his head. He

also didn’t like the corporate side of music but here he

is wearing a suit and it has the tagline “Success doesn’t

suck” which implies his views have changed.

Another Convention of Rolling stone is that the cover

also features other articles covering politics and culture

in case the customer doesn’t want to just know about

music and the barcode is in the bottom right corner,

whereas now the barcode is no longer on the front.

Cover Analysis