2. The man on the front cover is the
front man, Matt Bellamy, of English
rock band ‘Muse’. Muse is a very well
known and popular band, making this
cover very attractive to a lot of
people.
The Title ‘KERRANG’ is slightly covered
over which shows that it is a well
enough known magazine for this to
happen, although it isn’t covered over
much, possibly showing that the
magazine isn’t trying to be too over
confident.
There is a basic colour scheme of
white, black and yellow carried out
around the whole of the magazine
front cover, meaning that it doesn’t
get too much and over colourful.
There seems to be just one main story
on the page, possibly suggesting that
the magazine feels it only needs one
good story on the front cover to
attract its audience. The magazine is
accompanied with a very large
headline in a ‘broken letter’ type font,
that suggests the magazine has a kind
of ‘ruggard’ and untidy look to it.
The only other main story on the front
cover is a story about a confident
band using a violent saying about the
UK which could attract readers into
wanting to know more. The colour
scheme changes for this story for the
only time on the front cover which
could suggest that the magazine is
trying to draw in readers with the
different colours, plus making the
only other story on the front cover
stand out significantly.
The title ‘KERRANG’ is an
onomatopoeia word which is
complimented by their slogan ‘LIFE IS
LOUD’. The title is made of a similar
‘broken letter’ font as
Overall, I think the front cover of this magazine is generally effective as it comes
across as confident and dominating. It would attract a wide audience with the
artists on the cover as there are a range of different types of artists and bands
there. I think it holds together very well in its own ‘ruggard’ way and comes
across as slightly unorganised but in a ‘cool’ way. The headline is definitely the
most dominant convention along with the title and the large feature article
photograph of Matt Bellamy.
3. The colour scheme of this
contents page is the same as
the front cover meaning the
magazine, although seems to
look untidy, actually runs very
smoothly and all fits together
The different sections are
broken up by the topics being
highlighted in yellow which is a
good thing meaning that they
attract readers to them first,
along with helping them out
with what part of the
magazine they are wanting to
read.
There seems to be a lot more
photographs than there is
writing on this page, but all of
the photographs are
numbered, as they are all
included in different stories
throughout the magazine.
The photos would probably
attract readers into reading a
certain article more than
words would as it shows the
more exciting part of the
article and gives a ‘taste’ of
what the article would be
about.
I think this contents page ‘holds’ together very well as, much like the front cover, seems to fit together in a
very unusual manner. The colour scheme looks very good, and the writing flows down the side of the
photographs, with the photographs then in block sections so it doesn’t look too ‘out of control’ or ‘messy’.
The large photograph on this page is definitely the most dominant convention along with the ‘Contents’
title. Overall the whole page is a very bold and it stands out a lot. I think this would be very attractive to its
target audience, as it’s a classical ‘KERRANG’ style, ‘more about the music than the look’ point of view.
Editor's Notes
Is it effective? How does it ‘hold together’? What conventions are most dominant? Look for the use of colours, fonts, graphic features, stylistics, the size of different elements, grouping of elements together etc.
