2. Kerrang Magazine –
Research Product 1
The first magazine I have chosen to analyse is
Kerrang, the reason for this is because it’s
one of the most heard about magazines. I
like the layouts of there magazines because
they always keep the colour scheme to three
simple colours – Red, White and Black.
3. The contrast of the black and white outfits that the
Colour Scheme: band members are wearing in the photograph below,
show the audience that the differences between the
three men. The one at the front in white has been
made to look as if he is coming out towards the
audience, their eyes also emphasise my point above.
The main colour scheme on the Kerrang magazine cover
is red, white and black. These three colours are mainly
referred to the Rock genre this is because they are dark
colours and are used to show the audience the type of
bands that might be featured in the magazine.
4. Photographs
The photographs that have been used
on the front cover have been set out
to make the target audience think that
the photographs are looking at them –
this has been used to try and draw the
audience attention towards the
magazine by making them think the
musicians in the photographs are
looking at them. The style of the
photographs is set out in a quite
natural way because the layouts of the
photographs have quite medium
close-ups of the musicians.
Excluding the photograph of the girl above, the other
photographs used in this magazine cover are images of
bands. All three photographs show the bands looking
straight forward as if they are staring at the audience
trying to draw there attention towards the magazine.
5. Writing Style & Font:
The font used in this magazine is very
similar in each of the text. The main
heading is in black and looks as if it is
broken, the reason why this magazine has
positioned their main heading “Kerrang” at
the top is so the audience can tell straight
what magazine is being advertised.
6. Overall look
When I first saw this magazine
the first impression that came to
mind was that I liked the way
the front page was set out,
because I like how the artist
Biffy Clyro’s head is cover the
middle section of the main
heading. I thought it looked
quite different compared to the
other magazines I have seen.
7. Publisher:
The publisher of Kerrang magazine is Bauer Media Group. The Kerrang
magazine specialises in Rock Music. As of 2005, the main content of it
was music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled. The main
colour format for Kerrang is Black, White and Red.
8. Rock Sound – Research Product 2
The second magazine I have chosen to analyse
is Rock Sound. The reason for this is because
they do a lot of good articles about rock
bands. For example the magazine I’m
analysing today features articles about Blink
182 & Fall out boy. Compared to the Kerrang
Magazine Cover, to a certain extent I quite like
the layout of this magazine a lot more than
the other one because it has more optimistic
colours that have been used to catch the
audience attention. Instead of using Red,
white and black, this magazine has used Blue,
White and Red which means it gives the
magazine a whole new context compared to
the Kerrang magazine.
9. The contrast of the blue and black t-shirts that the
Colour Scheme: two artists are wearing are used to show the
audience that they are going to be featured in the
magazine, this because the writing has been made to
fit with the photographs. The artist in the foreground
dressed in blue has also been made to look as if he is
more important the guy in the background.
Straight away with this magazine you can tell the main
colours used are blue white and red. Although these
three are the main ones the magazine has used a small
amount of black in the background. This will have been
done to catch the audience attention because instead of
there just being the main colours it draws the audience
eyes on to the black because it means it will standout
more.
10. Photographs
The style of the photographs have
been set out to look like as if they
have been done in a natural/put
together way this is because the
layouts show different things. Even
though neither of the artist are doing
anything extreme. For example,
smashing a guitar the photograph of
the artist in blue winking looks a little
put together while being natural at
the same time.
The image above with the barcode has been set out to
look as if it has just casually been stuck on to the
magazine, almost as if it has made to look like a collage.
11. Writing Style & Font
White and blue sub-heading’s
The font used in this magazine is very have been used to show the
similar in each of the text. The main audience what is going to be
heading is in blue and has the artists in featured in the magazine.
blue head placed in front of the main
heading, the reason why this magazine has
positioned their main heading “Rock
Sound” at the top is so the audience can
tell straight what magazine is being
advertised.
12. Publisher:
The publisher of Rock Sound magazine is
Patrick Napier. Rock sound Magazines
specialise in many different things, Such as
they do things alternating from rock Music
reviews to gigs.
13. Q Magazine –
Research Product 3
The third magazine I have chosen to analyse
is Q magazine , the reason for this is because
it is also one of the most heard about
magazines. I like the layouts of there
magazines because they set the front cover
differently each edition.
14. Photographs
This magazine has only used two
photographs. The main photograph
used is the artist smashing a guitar, it
has been set out to make the audience
think that he has used his guitar to
smash the logo even though in fact he
hasn’t because it will have been
edited like that before the image will
have been taken.
15. Overall look
My first impression of this
magazine was that the front
cover looks quite good
because of how the artist
looks as of he’s smashed his
guitar into the “Q” symbol.
The look on his face helps
this photograph look really
virtuous as well.
16. Publisher:
The publisher of Q magazine is Bauer Media. The Kerrang magazine
specialises in Rock Music. As of 2005, the main content of it was music
videos. The main colour format for Q is Grey, White and Red. Bauer
Media owns more than eighty influential media brands spanning a wide
range of interests including heat, Closer, MCN, FHM, Parkers, MATCH,
Magic 105.4, Kiss 100 and Kerrang
