Analysing Cover One : Rock Sound

The magazine is mostly based around the Rock genre and all the sub genres within Rock. The word 'Rock' ammediatly attracts the target audiance because of its simplicity. Rock also has connatations of being very loud and noisy and so by the use of 'Sound,' it relates very well. What also woks well corrisponding to the title is that the name attracts the audiance because its clear to us what the magazine is about and so the audiance will focus more on what is in the magazine instead of finding out wat the magazine is about.

The font on this magazine is very important because the magazine has a set genre and so has to fit within that. Its tall and thin, being simple will attract the audiance more because they like to focus on the more important things however it still grabs your atention. The font also has randomly places cracks that represents a 'gravestone' effect, which also relates to Rock because it is occasionlly associated with death.

The cover is targeting boys and you can discover this when you look at the colour conventions of this cover. The main theme is blue and so this may appeal more to male rather than females. Against the blue background, white is used in the title, this is used to help it stand about as it is the thing that the audiance will ammediatly focus on. Using the red with the gloves also suggests that it is appealing to males becasue it is playful and boystroius. I have also come to gather that the colours on this page are all American Flag colours and so it shows that the band featured are American or that the magazine is.

The picture in general is set to show the main band featuring within the magazine. There is a large proportion of the magazine shown on just them 'Fall Out Boy' and so all the attention is drawn to them, this is also done by the way the picture is in all the frame and the head blocks out the title showing they are more important. Again, this is appealing mostly to males becasue the picture is of two male, with boxing gloves (a generally masculine sport) and they are making threatening faces rather than how if they were going to appeal to females, they would be looking more suductive.

I think the target audiance is to males in thier teens and who are obviouslt into rock music. This is made blatent through the many ways that the contents are mostly boys interests, for example boxing.
The structure looks cluttered which creates that snese that the magazine has a lot to offer and that it will take a while for the reader to finish. I like that fact its giving away a CD, i believe this is good way to get loyal buyers becasue its always good to give something back to your buyers instead of just feeding them gossip. The magazine includes a date and issue number as well as a bar code and price. This is good for my research because now i know that i should include these things.