Research and planning: music magazine cover analysis 1

On this magazine cover it follows the three colour rule as it includes three main colours that are green, yellow and red. These three bright colours make the cover easy on the eye and also make it stand out. The main photo is a normal looking man with a colourful Adidas tracksuit on. This kind of symbolises a 'trendy' look and implies that drum and bass is a trendy genre of music, which makes it more attractive to the buyer. The audience would be people interested in drum and bass music as it is a drum and bass magazine. We know the magazine is associated with music in some way as there is the outline of the shape of a CD to the left of the cover, in red. On the right of the cover it lists drum and bass artists which confirms the genre of the magazine. The masthead of the magazine has lines coming down underneath it which resemble when drum and bass artists are making new tracks, which tops off the drum and bass theme nicely.