Cover types

Most often when we look at a magazine cover, we just scan through the picture and maybe read a couple words, and thats it. Not many people suspect that their is a whole science behind covers, different ways to present the covers in text, images, drawings and all of these combined. Though this is not mainly what it is called. There are four different types of ways the magazine authors present their magazine covers. Starting off with image based covers. In these covers the subject is taken by a camera, most often it is of a person who is looking directly to the camera who is trying to sell off a product, most often celebrities do this. Often also the person is looking off the camera dragging the attention of the reader off the page. Overall the image type based cover is all based around taking a photo of an somebody. Also in covers there is a Illustration based cover this means that the cover of the journal is drawn by hand or on a computer. People do this to draw unrealistic things or somethings that are hard to take a picture off, or at last add a sense of craftsman ship. The third type of cover post is called a type based cover. In this type of cover the cover consist only of words with a bold background. In these types of covers the author tries to make the author read the cover to get a sense of what is inside the journal, and at last there is a combination of all of these, this is called a concept based cover. It is were the is a combination of hand drawn items, pictures and words. This is the type of cover that you will see on most covers. At last possibly the hardest thing to do for and author of a journal is to make the connection of the picture and words match, form first perspective it seems easy to do, but if you try it, it isn't so. This is important because if your picture is of a soccer player and the words say "how to drive a car?" that would make no sense. So the author tries to tie the photo and words together. For example showing a soccer player and write about that "adidas cleats make you faster" then this would make sense and drag attention to people who like soccer. The only case were the author of the cover might use completely unrelated words to the image, is if the author is trying to communicate different topics from the journal.