Billboard Magazine.

Masthead: A masthead is simply the name/ logo at the top of the magazine cover and is usually the largest font on the cover. This masthead is a simple white text with the middle of the b,o,a and d filled in with different colours. The masthead is simply ‘Over 250 charts Billboard’

Headline: A headline is put in place to identify the most important. This is usually in the largest font after the masthead. The headline on the cover of this magazine is the word ‘NEW’ This is trying to tell the audience that something new is going on.

House Style: The house style is blue, white, red, yellow and green. A house style is in place so an organisation or a company will agree that all its published material will use the same font, colour scheme, layout.

Stroke: A stroke is put in place to make text or objects stand out more. Here we can see several strokes have been added on to this text ‘NEW’ so it stands out more to the reader.

Visual syntax: A visual syntax is a way in which the readers eyes is led through the covers layout. Here we can see the layout is very simple and all in line with each other. I have put guide lines on the cover to show how the readers eyes lead through the cover.

Pug: Here we have a pug, a pug is a shape that has text within it. A pug is in place to catch the readers eye to promote something that is in the magazine. Here we have another pug, we can see that they are trying to promote ‘the year in music’ .

Pug:  we also have another pug, a pug is a shape that has text within it. A pug is in place to catch the readers eye to promote something that is in the magazine. Here we can see that they are trying to promote a ‘top new artist’ One Direction.

Barcode: We also have a barcode on the front cover.

Large central superimposed photo: We have a large central image so our attention can be drawn towards the magazine. A large image also stands out a lot more.

Sans serif style font: This is when a font doesn’t have hooks, brackets and feet. This text is white and bold and doesn’t have hooks, brackets or feet.