AS media magazine cover analysis

The title of the magazine is Kerrang! The target audience is who love rock music between the ages of 14-20. The title sounds like a sound of guitar when it’s played. The title of the magazine looks like a shattered glass. This looks like it is been hit with something. The two colours mainly used are black and white. The title is placed at the top so that it can be easily seen by the audience when placed on the shelf.

The image of the band of the cover reflects on the type and style of music. The image is a high angle shot which shows their whole body. Three of them are looking straight away on the readers, one of the guys are wearing a sunglass which shows that he doesn’t want to have an eye contact. The other person who is wearing the glasses is looking at a different direction. Their face expression shows that they are harsh, rude and not friendly. They are dressed in black and two of them are wearing eyeliner which again indicates the style of music.

On the bar at the top they have used a strong word ‘war’ to compare the fight between Iron Maiden and Sharon Osbourne. They have used buzz words like free and eggsclusive!. 

At the bottom of the page the audience can see list of different bands which are going to be found inside the magazine. They have a range of genre to appeal to a wider audience. This makes it easy for the audience to get different news about which all band groups are inside the magazine.

 The Kerrang magazine offers freebies like posters, stickers etc. This is mainly targeted on the teenagers who love to put posters of their favourite bands on their bedroom walls. This also helps to attract other audience to buy the magazine as it provides a free stuff and they think it’s a bargain.

The puffs make the audience more exited and happy to buy the magazine as it can make the audience feel lucky. The plus sign tells the audience about the more topics and news that they can find inside that magazine.

The Kerrang magazine uses three main colours. They are white, black and red.Young readers are more likely to be influenced by the style and fashion of the bands on the magazine cover.