Research into music magazines

This appeals to the target audience by promoting specific bands that certain people would be interested by. I would consider that the people interested in this music magazine would mainly be people who listen to rock/metal music and watch/listen to Kerrang as it is a known franchise this covers the radio station, musi channel and magazine. The masthead is recognisable to continuous viewers as the typography is in bold and has same font design as it usually does. "Life is sweet!" relates to the image of an ice cream as it is usually in a sweet food group which enhances that life is enjoyable and continues to make the person delighted with things in life. The Kerrang magazine in general links to Maslows Hierachy as this magazine is targeted at certain social group in society who enjoy and listen to rock based music, in order to fufil people's needs.

 

I decided to base my contents page on the layout of this this music magazine because it is very effective as it has certain sections to organise the magazine making it interesting to read  rather than large sums of information all in one place. The titles of the pages are kept very brief to entice the audience, not giving too much information but enough to highlight what the certain sections are about. The sections within the magazine also help target a wider audience beyond music, this is done through crosswords, offers, fan mail and reviews on films as well as albums and singles. There is a colour scheme of 3  different colours to represent a consistent theme throughout the Magazine, the colours used create a contrast between one another to compliment the main brand colour – red. This colour scheme identifies the theme of the magazine which is portrayed as indie/rock. The larger photograph helps promote the higher profile articles, it is also a well known band which attracts certain audience members letting them know the types of artists which will appear in the magazine. Even though the magazine is styled in a very basic way it gives a very sophisticated feel because of these reasons.