CLASH

There is a variety of different types of media language used in the music magazine cover clash. In majority of the covers, we seem to be looking up towards the artists. This could connote seriousness and that they are important people who some people look up to. In a couple of the covers, the artists face can be hidden, half-shown or very blurry. This connotes that these people can be seen to be very serious. There are high representations of these musicians by their facial expressions and where they're looking as some of them give us direct eye contact and some don't.

The layout can be seen as very different to other music magazines. One of the main differences is that the magazine covers are very neat and clean as there's not much on them. The cover lines on the covers are placed on top of the main splash and is not against the margin, which it usually is in most other covers. The font used for the masthead is sans serif and all the letters are large lock capitals to spread across the whole page in some cases. This connotes seriousness and formality. The font used for the cover lines is sans serif as well and there's only a small amount of text, for example, in some cases it's just a pull quote from the magazine. The colours are very desaturated. There's only a couple of different colours used on the whole cover for some covers. This connotes that the musicians can be seen to be very serious. Other covers like the Travis Scott cover do have some vibrant, vivid but also dark colours.