Kerrang!
Front cover: - The front cover is very bold in the way it uses colour. The colour scheme is red, black, white and grey. These colours complement each other and allow the heading and pictures to stand out, grabbing the audience’s eye. I like the way that the pictures and smaller stories have borders making them stand out against the background of the main story however I feel that the picture for the main story is crowded by everything else on the page. Perhaps a different font would allow extra space but I like the way in which they have used capitals to make the writing stand out.
Contents: - I like the way in which the contents are structured. The pictures catch the reader’s eye and draw you into the story. It makes you want to find out what’s going on in the picture. The way in which it is structured makes certain people drawn to certain images as their favourite artists will grab their attention. The images are quite shocking and also make you wonder what’s going on in them. I like the way the font is simple yet effective and the way the yellow stands out from the black for the heading, subheading and page numbers. However the structure could be changed into a more “random” state rather than the neat squares it appears to have.
I will then try to include some of the ideas I liked into my own music magazine, this research will enable me to know what the audience wants in a certain type of magazine.i will then go onto researching other types of magazines to get a contrast of ideas, expanding my audience.
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