Analysing Magazine Adverts

When looking and researching music magazines I noticed that they are mostly Rock & Hip-Hop genres. I decided to look at both different types of magazine adverts to compare them against each other. The first magazine I looked at is Kerrang which there type of genre is Rock.

All the Kerrang front covers I have looked at are all very similar to each other, this is shown through the title, colour, photographs and layout of the front cover. All of their front covers I have looked at all include the bold yellow headings against the red background along with the bold white title, this helps their magazine be noticed & stand out from others. Another thing I noticed from all of their magazines front covers is the big bold start image photographs, this occurs in mostly all of the front covers, with the central composition this is too draw your attention to the artist. This is also placed with a bold yellow slogan or name so the audience links that with the artist, such as the ones shown above of Linkin Park & You Me At Six.

From the two magazines front covers, it represents both the artists and their bands as very powerful & dominant. This is shown through the size & composition of the photograph, which also shows to readers what type of magazine genre it is. When studying different front covers of Kerrang I have seen that their target is to produce this star image of the artist to represent them in a way they want to. I feel a lot of their targets in the peruse & represent the artists as powerful, dominant & 'in you're face' again from the size & composition of their photograph.