By Jessica Murray

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.

Colour Scheme:

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.

The contrast of the black and white outfits that the 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Colour Scheme:

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.

The contrast of the blue and black t-shirts that the 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.

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.

Writing Style & Font

The font used in this magazine is very similar in each of the text. The main heading is in blue and has the artists in 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.

White and blue sub-heading’s have been used to show the audience what is going to be featured in the magazine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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