Kerrang music magazine

On this front cover of the music magazine ‘Kerrang’ the masthead is brightly coloured which is unusual for a ‘Kerrang’ magazine as the masthead is normally in dull black or white. It is always in a large font with lines going through the font to break it up a bit to give it an appearance that looks similar to broken glass. This masthead is a little difficult to read because of the way it is placed on the page with the images over lapping the main heading. This could make it hard for the target audience to recognise the magazine whilst browsing through them all in a shop. Also readers may find it harder to spot this issue because of the brightly coloured font. The slogo is ‘Life is Loud’ on every ‘Kerrang’ magazine but because it is always placed at the top right hand corner of the page, it is covered completely up by the main images of the cover. The lead article and images are ‘starring Ozzy, Him, Velvet Revolver, The Used and My Chemical Romance’. This makes the readers want to open the magazine and read on about the bands/singers this magazine is starring. The main images shows that the magazine is of a ‘rock’ genre, this is represented by the clothes they are wearing, the make-up and accessories they have got on and the appearance of the magazine cover as a whole. The main sells are the band/singers I mentioned earlier on and it says in bold white writing ‘DOWNLOAD The Ultimate Guide!’ This is an eye catcher as this is placed in bold writing on the centre left side of the page; people will see this straight away after seeing the leading images. The background is not dull; it is simple and plain shaded in bright blue that looks like a nice blue sky on a summer’s day. This is a good contrast with the yellow masthead; it makes the leading images stand out more because the models are all wearing black. The main sell stands out very much by being in a bright red star shape with white writing saying ‘Win a signed slipknot guitar!’ in a big font size and in the colour white. This draws the attention from the readers straight to it because of both the colour and the font, also because they word ‘win’ is on the page. Ozzy is wearing several hard silver necklaces which give away the ‘rock’ genre even more, also the ring he has on and the pose he is standing in. The photographer has made sure all three main models of the page are all facing towards the camera with eyes looking in the camera lenses and all wearing clothes to meet the ‘rock’ genre of the magazine. I personally think that by placing the images behind the masthead this will make it clearer to recognise and read that is my opinion but every ‘Kerrang’ magazine cover has the same layout.