Front cover analyse 1...

The 1st magazine front cover which i am going to analyse is Kerrang. The first thing i noticed about the magazine was that the title was behind the heads of the models, this shows to me that the magazine Kerrang believes that the models are more important than the actual title. secondly i noticed the detail to the word Kerrang in the title, it has cracks across the lettering this shows that the music is loud and gives the title a good effect. The writing used is all the same font apart from in different sizes. This shows that it is a simple magazine and most likely to be aimed at 16-21 year old. The masthead subheadings and captions are all quite bold lettering to catch the eye of potential customers. The colours which the producer of Kerrang magazine has chosen stand out from the background so again it is eye catching, also they have only decided to use 3 colours for the writing which are white, red and yellow this makes the magazine look sophisticated. furthermore i noticed that in 1 of the captions it says that a free CD for every reader this would encourage a lot of people to buy the magazine.The language used is informal and colloquial this again gives us an idea of Kerrangs target audience which i stated earlier is 16-21 year old. cameos are used in the bottom left corner this gives the reader an idea of what to expect inside, they are offering 3 posters inside which may make make people want to buy the magazine. The image on the cover of the magazine is a medium close up shot of the models.