Inspirational Magazines

This magazine is called Billboard, and it inspires me because I enjoy the way the front cover looks. You can immediately see that the focus of the magazine is going to be Rihanna, as she is the main image and is slightly covering the masthead, and her name is the largest text on the page. Under her name, it reads 'My fans don't really know who I am', which inspires me because it seems like such a large secret has finally been revealed, and that now her fans can truly understand her; so people who pick up the magazine and read that, they'd probably want to read on and learn all about the 'true' Rihanna. They also include all the essential information under the subhead, and it tell you the website address and the date that this issue was released, and the bar code is in the bottom left corner.

The magazine NME has inspired me because throughout all of the front cover, they have stuck with the same theme of colours, which is black, white and mainly red, with a bit of yellow. The two people on the cover are Alex Turner and Miles Kane, as it reads on top of the image, and it tells you that this is the 'first major interview as the Last Shadow Puppets'. They also used a pull quote - 'I was worried the Monkeys would think I'd had an affair' - which I like as it gives you a small snippet of the interview inside, which may convince somebody to pick up the magazine and buy it. The main image looks very posed which makes me think that this was taken at a photo shoot for the cover, which I may do for my magazine.

I find this magazine inspirational as they make the main image the focus of the cover, and the text on top which is the part that jumps out at you the most as they claim that this is a 'world exclusive!' then make the text size even larger for the band name, and change the colour to make it stand out even more. I enjoy the fact that most of the cover is in red, black or white, and you only see 2 flashes of yellow which are the text that stands out the most and are probably first things you read on the cover. It also appears that the main image is a professional photo that was took at a photo shoot, probably specially for this magazine.