Magazine Cover Analysis: Private Eye

 




  • For Private Eye magazine, the masthead is presented in a black, sans-serif font in block capitals, making it easy for the audience to spot and consume. The font style is rather linear and sharp, suggesting the content of the magazine is straight to the point. 
  • The colour scheme of the cover is made up of red, black, yellow and blue, however, the blue and yellow are only included in the main image and graphics, rather than text such as the cover lines. 
  • The sans-serif font persists throughout the cover, yet a serif font appears in both the comical speech bubbles and the dateline. The change in font from sans-serif to serif may be used to tone down the satirical tone presented in the speech bubbles, suggesting that the text included inside them is not completely comical, and has some truth to it.
  • The main image also includes the red, white, blue, and yellow colour scheme, and features a medium shot of Donald Trump mid-speech. 
  • The supporting graphics of fireworks relate to the play on words in the main cover line ‘Happy Nuke Year!’, as they can also double as explosions from the ‘nuke’. 
  • Apart from the supporting cover line underneath the main image, the cover features no other cover lines, which is rather unconventional for a magazine. However, this could be in relation to the magazine being ‘private’ as suggested by its name. 
  • The satirical nature of the magazine helps to entice the younger audiences through a more comic approach to important issues.



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