CASE STUDY 2Kerrang

About The Magazine•Kerrang! magazine is a music magazine that uses only rock bands and artists in it.

•It is published by Bauer Media Group.

•The Editor is James McMahon

•The first publication date was 6 June 1981

•The frequency of the magazine is weekly

•The price of the magazine is £2.10

•Readers can pick it up from any high street newsagents and superstores

Analysis of Front CoverFrequent use of the colours black, red and white.

Masthead is big and at the top

The price is £2.10

The whole band is not on the front cover, just the singer of it.

The magazine website is on the cover for extra music entertainment

Tells you what other music artist are in the magazine

The bands name is big, but not bigger than the masthead

Tagline ‘I am who I am with no apologies!’

Analysis of Contents PageHas the day, month and the year of the magazine

Has an image of a music artist with the page number on that this artist will be on

The word ‘contents’ is bigger than the dateHas a list of the

contents in it

The page numbers are bigger than the blurb of the page text but not title of page text.

The main colours used here are yellow, white and black

The artists in the main image are making eye contact

There are images of artists for quite a few of the pages

Analysis of a Double page spreadText is in three columns per page

A quote from the interview is standing out with a black background

One whole page is filled with an image of the band posing and messing around

The title of the page is big and has a red background for the text.

At the bottom right, there is an equation with images of the bands albums.

Main colours are red, black and white.

There is a drop letter at the beginning of the interview.

My Intentions

In my magazine that I am going to create, I intend to imitate some aspects of the magazine Kerrang!. I will use 3 or 4 main colours on the front cover and use the same 3 or 4 colours on the page that the interview is on like they have. I am also going to have a quote that will stand out in the interview and have a full page to be an image of the artist. I might also make the date of the magazine on the contents page big to stand . Also, on the contents page, they have used quite a few images of the artists featured in the magazine which is something I like and may use it in mine. On the front cover, the artist has been taken at a close-up shot so you can’t see their bodies but you can see their hand because of the way they are posing which I think makes the magazine look good and I may use it on my cover too.