research and planing: Analysis of R'N'B Magazine front covour

This magazine fits the genre of an R'N'B magazine.

• The masthead of this magazine is bold and light blue which makes it stand out from the rest of the magazine. It also fits the colour scheme to the magazine as other parts of the cover are blue.
• Another prop is the model on the front cover. Usher is a famous R'N'B artist and the medium close up shots represents that he is well known and very famous in this genre of music. The fact he is showing his wedding finger catches peoples eye as his fans will be interested in who he is marrying. His watch is also on show which connotes he has money and also the glasses he is wearing shows he has money. The way he is stud with his head tilted shows he has attitude and swagger.
  
• The font used for the word 'swagger' looks as though it is spray painted on and the genre of R'N'B reflects on that because well known artists are seen as having a swagger instead of an attitude and if you have money, a big house etc then your known to have a swagger, also youths reflect the R'N'B genre in there life too, some will spray paint on walls etc.
• The colours black and red also connote that the genre is R'N'B because the colour yellow is like the colour of money/gold, so could be a sign of how rich the are.
• The audience for this genre of magazine would be either male or female interested in this genre of music and as Usher is well known to both sex groups. Age would preferably be around 15 to 18 years as these are the years younger people will be going out etc and into music, the music industry news etc, this is also the age that teenagers will be interested in the latest fashions, and having a girlfriend or a boyfriend.
• The psycho graphics for the genre of this magazine would be a rich wealthy, healthy lifestyle, the interest's would be having a girlfriend, looking good, making sure you have the latest fashion and looks. the value on life you would have would be having a pretty girl under your arm, making sure you have lots of friends, usually just a typical teenage lifestyle.
  
• The Socio-economic grouping for this genre of magazine you would be put in if you was just a fan of it would probably be D or E, however if you was one of the celebrities in this genre you would be in gouping A-B.