MUSIC MAGAZINE RESEARCH

My magazine is called KERRANG!I chose it because it was eye-catching and cheaper than the other magazines.

I have never bought this magazine before It features bright colours and bold fonts It is a rock magazine It is part of the Bauer consumer media

company The editor is called James Mcmahon There is also a Deputy editor, an art

director, a production editor, features editor, picture editor, sub editor/ editorial assistant, deputy art editor, reviews editor, listings editor, designer and introducing editor

The magazine cost £2.20

The inside cover of the front page features an advert from HTC. It shows how the phone can be customised to suit your needs in a unique way.

It uses bright colours on a blank background to stand out like the front cover

The back cover features an advert for Machine Heads album ‘Unto The Locust’ at HMV

Its got a lot of black space which fits in with the HMV house style

Wearing black on a white background so they stand out

Serious faces and powerful stances make them look almost godly

There 16 pages of advertisements in the magazine

The adverts in the magazine are all either technology adverts or adverts for upcoming shows.

These relate to the audience as they are young (so will be interested in technology) and enjoy the music being advertised as they bought the magazine

Their website includes a homepage, news, access all areas, swag, podcast, k! magazine, tickets, shop, subscribe, bands, listen to k! radio, kerrangradio and k! TV links

I like the layout of the articles in the magazine best. They are always interestingly set out so it makes it more interesting to read

I would change the articles themselves as the people featured don’t interest me

The magazine costs £2.20 and is released once a week

I t is published by Bauer Media Group, a large German publishing company based in Hamburg

They also publish the magazine Q

The magazine is aimed at young people that are into Rock music

I can tell this as all the adverts are for things that would interest this group of people such as mobile phones and rock concerts

The people on the front cover are also quite young and are playing videogames while looking quite crazy which the target audience will want to be like

Front Cover The front cover is set on a white blank background

so that everything stands out and you can see it clearly

The masthead is behind the main picture showing that the company have faith in their brand being popular enough

There are lots of cover lines all down the side and across the bottom so it looks like the reader is getting a lot for their money

They have added a banner at the top advertising the free posters included in the magazine so that the audience will want to buy it more

There are 3 different competitions that the reader will want to enter so they will buy the magazine

Contents

The page numbers are on the right side of the page underneath headings such as feedback, news and Win!

The page is dominated by a man with makeup on singing

There are also screenshots of articles in the magazine that may interest the reader

Double page spread

These pages feature ‘FINISH HIM!’ in very large font in red and black which are very aggressive colours

The red and black is matched by what the two men in the shot are wearing

The photograph uses special effects too The text is wrapped around the photograph There is an independent red column on the

right that includes a story about this weeks special feature of gaming