This document provides an analysis of the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread from a Kerrang magazine. The front cover features a group shot of the band Bring Me The Horizon covered in blood, suggesting a violent rock image. The contents page uses bold fonts, pictures, and limited colors and styles to attract a rock audience in a messy but eye-catching layout. The double page spread focuses on an interview, featuring a photo of the subject with bold text and fonts drawing the reader in over attractive design.

2. Front Cover
The type of photograph used in the front cover is a medium shot and the
picture is a group picture of band called 'Bring Me The Horizon’ with 5
members in it.
This group picture is in the middle of the of the cover.
You can also see that there as sign of higher status as the main singer is in
the front and the rest of the members are in the back.
There is also a promotion which includes a poster inside the magazine which
could grab some costumers attention.
The colors used are mutual colors such as black and red which sort of gives
you an idea of what type if music it is. The background is black which makes
the pictures stand out as they are wearing white; they are also covered in
‘blood’ which could suggest how ruthless they are.
You can tell it is music magazine as the pictures are of well known celebrities
such as Green Day and Ozzy Osbourne.
The pictures and the headline gives costumer some idea of what they would
expect to be inside.

3. Denotation - Boys covered in blood, 3 of them have tattoos on their arms,
there is a headline in red, there are small pictures of other artists.
Connotation – The boys are in the cover of a music magazine which suggest
they are a group or an artist. They are covered in blood and tattoos to show
how violent they are and how they are so into rock.
Representation - Kerrang represent rock music, they are promotion new
bands/artist as well as old ones.
Audience -This magazine attracts mostly teenagers who are heavily into rock
n roll. It attracts audience by quoting some parts from the artist interviews by
picking quotes carefully as they want to appeal to their target audience.
Language – Is informal which you suggest which type of audience it targets.
The language used is not positive either.
Font – Is bold and big with eye catching colour red which suggest that their
ideal target don't pay much attention to reading which is why there is very little
writing in the cover.

4. This is a symbolic code as
this title has something to do
with picture of the band. i.e.
Their group name.
The price is £2.20 and the
website is there to
www.kerrang.com
Issue: 2/10/10

5. Contents page
Denotative – There are mainly pictures, letters are in bold, block capitals there
are a lot of exclamation points.
Connotative – This is because they are emphasising the angriness of rock as
the magazines target market is rock. They are a lot of pictures to attract their
audience bit it looks messy and overdone.
Font – There are only 4 different style of font used and the colour scheme
consist of 3 colours which is yellow ,black and white which is eye catching
and makes the contents page look more attractive and artistic.
Language – It is very informal and they also use some slang words which
could target an ideal audience such as the working class who thinks reading
is a waste of time and they don’t want to waste their valuable reading time to
find where a specific article is.
Images - There are a lot of pictures which could suggest that they want the
readers to focus more on the pictures as they are dominating the contents
page.

6. Double page spread

7. Denotative – colour scheme is purple, black, white and grey. There’s a man sitting
in a sofa looking relaxed, there is a lot of writing, a quote on the picture in bold,
block capitals, the name of the of the man on the top of the first side (symbolic
code).
Connotative - The colours used are very dull which suggest that it focuses more
on the writing than looking attractive and the picture is dominating the page which
suggest that the article is about the man in the picture.
Font – 6 different style of font is used to grab the audience attention to continue
reading.