2. The puff below entices the reader to buy the
Bright colours on the magazine, by offering a free gift or in this case The bold masthead is formatted so ha
front cover entice the a CD the idea is that the audience will want to it looks like solid rock which attracts
reader in. By putting a grab a hold of the free gift which is only the reader through the visual effects of
well known and famous allowable if buying the magazine. the text.
band on the front cover
allows the target
audience to engage
with the magazine and
want to read further, it
allows the audience to
connect with the
magazine.
In 1998 original
publishers Dennis
Publishing allegedly
begrudgingly
authorised the first
issue of Classic By giving an idea as to what is
Rock inside the magazine it allows the
audience/reader to contemplate
buying the magazine and hopefully
The title of the issue is
gives positive results, this allows
specifically about pink
them to pick up the magazine and
Floyd which indicates to
have an idea of what's inside
whom ever is buying the
without having to skin through each
magazine that this style of
page.
magazine has a relevant
target audience.
‘ 30 years of Pink Floyd’ Classic Rock was an idea formulated by ex-Metal
Hammer Deputy Editor Jerry Ewing
Publishing Limited. Future Entertainment
Frequency of Publication - 13 per annum.
Price- £4.25
Found in Shops, newsstands, larger shopping centres.

3. Page numbers are crucial when
creating a contents page.
In every ‘ Classic Rock’ The features of the
magazine I have contents page are
discovered that on the specific to the magazine
contents page they have itself. Without allowing
a different band or artist the reader to know
providing a cover story what's in each part of the
and that there is also a magazine they will have
large main image. By no direction and may
doing this is gives the throw the reader off the
reader a sense of routine magazine.
and knowing that this will
be here in each issue.
By giving it the effect of
‘sepia’ it gives a sense of
‘classic stability.
Exclusive interviews are By providing the reader
crucial in music magazines with a chance to win
because it allows the something allows them to
reader to get involved and become involved with the
have more of an incite as magazine and could
to what the bands and possibly make them feel
artists are about. closer to the bands and
artists they love.

4. The masthead is bold Bright colours on the front
and has various cover entice the reader in. By
shades of bright putting a well known and
colours which stands famous artist on the front
out amongst a shelf of cover allows the target
regular magazines. audience to engage with the
The fonts and colours magazine and want to read
throughout the front further, it allows the audience
cover are constant to connect with the magazine.
which gives the reader In this case- Jimi Hendrix.
a sense of
consistency.
published on 7 March 1952
Mike Williams – Editor.
Price- £2.40
Found In local shops.
The title of the issue is The puff below entices the
specifically about Jimi reader to buy the
Hendrix which magazine, by offering a
indicates to whom free gift or in this case
ever is buying the ‘prize tickets’ the idea is
magazine that this hat the audience will want
style of magazine has to grab a hold of the free
a relevant target gift which is only allowable
audience. In this case if buying the magazine.
it is ‘ The final weeks
of Jimi Hendrix’
1942 – 1970

5. Instead of having page
numbers next to the
Various pictures can
information there is sub
be displayed on the
heading, there are
contents page, this
alternate ways you can
style is more
produce a contents page.
common than from
the first magazine
analysis I did. This
way not only does it
allow the reader to
know more from the
extra information The features of the
from the sub contents page are
headings but the specific to the
audience can visually magazine itself.
look at various bands Without allowing the
inside. reader to know what's
in each part of the
magazine they will
have no direction and
may throw the reader
off the magazine.

6. Double Page Spread Analysis
The
This specific paragraphs
double page and
spread is information
focusing on itself can
a world include
famous band questions of
‘ Aerosmith.’ the
It seems that interviewer
the picture of and then the
lead singer bands
on the left is responses to
a more their
recent questions.
picture than By allowing
those in the reader to
black and know what
white so it question was
allows the asked it may
reader to allow them to
compare the be able to
pictures to relate in
see the some way.
changes
over the
years.
A serious of columns creating paragraphs are crucial to a double
Quotes from the band itself are page spread. Without this the reader would have no knowledge
intriguing to the reader and of the band or their background. Be sure to write about most
allows them to know a little bit aspects of the band including each member, their role and even
more into the life of a rock star. maybe a little bit about their personality.