Front Cover Annotation

This is the front cover of Brit - Asian, this is a magazine from the Bhangra genre. With the close up shot of Jay Sean it shows the significance of his artist lifestyle the sunglasses, leather jacket this also shows the importance of these to the readership. His image has been placed over the main title of the magazine which draws the readers straight to the image of Jay Sean. The colour scheme which has been used for this front cover is basic, keep a small range of colours. The colours are Black which cool, sophisticated; gold which represents luxurious, precious. This would attract the readership because they would be influenced by this style of clothing and his lifestyle, too many colours would make the cover look too crowded; keeping the colours simple attracts sophisticated readers as it looks more professional than the colourful front covers from other leading music magazines, particularly from the pop genre. The quote underneath Jay Sean’s name is “I came, I saw, I conquered” this is a quick and easy quote to remember and eye catching for the reader as they would want to read more about Jay Sean and what he has been up to in the past and what the future plans are, this quote is something that is said once but remembered always. Brit-Asian is a different magazine compared to the NME or Kerrang. As I am creating a Bhangra magazine myself I will be looking into the characteristics of this particular magazine to help me with me with my magazine.