Front Cover Analysis

This magazine cover of Kerrang Magazine is printed to the average size of a magazine; it has a large masthead which is slightly covered by a image of the band Avenged Sevenfold which are seen to be a big and well know band which are centred in the magazine for the main attraction, there is a main title with the band’s name which is giving the audience the information about the band which are shown to be quite popular in this magazine. Around this image there are sub headings with information featuring other bands which are featured in this magazine like Red Hot Chili Peppers, which are a popular band so are Lostprophets who are featured in another sub title, this is showing that the magazine features popular bands in the genre of rock.

In the bottom left hand corner there is a free poster selection of new modern bands for the audience who buy the issue. At the bottom there is a lower sell line with has a list of bands which feature in this issue of Kerrang!. The Target audience for this magazines would be teenagers and young adults , who listen to music quite a lot through their day to day life, this is suggested through how the whole magazine is based on music. The layout is just a basic magazine layout having the main attraction centred in the middle and have the title in big casing near the image. then having sub headings the bottom of the magazine along with other images of bands which are featured in the magazine.

the colours used in this front cover are mostly plain colours, this has been used to make the images stand out more to the reader. this also makes the other images mastheads and sub titles look more brighter so the audience pay more attention to them.