Magazine contents analysis
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The document analyzes and compares the contents pages of two rock music magazines, Q and Kerrang!. It discusses their house styles, imagery, design balance, and symmetry. Q has a consistent masthead and color scheme featuring solo artists to appeal to a mature audience. Kerrang! features band members and a collage-like style to attract a younger demographic. Both magazines achieve horizontal balance and symmetry through strategic placement of images and text.
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2) The contents page uses subtle, light colors to create calm. Images feature artists relevant to stories and resemble the target audience.
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- Target demographic: Based on your market research, your target audience is 16-year-old girls who enjoy indie/alternative/rock music. This represents a specific youth demographic interested in this genre of music.
- Musical interests: The content and stories featured focus on indie/rock bands and artists that would appeal to this social group. Including a competition for a festival known for indie acts further signals the musical tastes represented.
- Visual style: The bright color scheme, use of a young female on the cover, and casual/individualistic dress and style depicted visually convey the fashion and aesthetic preferences of this social group.
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- 1. House Style Contents Page Analysis Design Balance The house style consists of The contents page is well- the colour scheme grey, balanced with a range and yellow and black which are variety of images that will very grungy and relatable to attract their readers. There the genre of rock. The is a reasonable ratio of consistency creates a brand pictures to stories and they identity for the magazine to attract more audiences. The don’t cancel each other out magazine uses bold sans in appearance. The colours serif fonts to make the story and nicely balanced so that titles eye-catching for their it is appealing and the layout target audiences who are on the page is very simple interested in that genre. yet also classic to create a classic-rock theme. Imagery The contents page has many Design Symmetry images on it relating to key stories that are more likely The composition of the page to appeal to target suggests that the contents audiences. The images are page is horizontally balanced very clean-cut and simple in as there are a variety of sized neat rows with images of pictures and a row of story bands related to the genre. lines down one column. This He images differentiate from creates a very tidy and dark to light creating an appealing contrast for target sophisticated look for the audiences and also relate contents page so the readers back to the rock genre of the can easily find what they magazine. want. Contrast House Style The house style for Q is Design Balance consistent as the Kerrang has more images masthead is still in the that are smaller than text top left corner for brand to appeal to a younger identity whereas audience whilst Kerrang! Kerrang! Has the title has fewer images but page in the weak fallow larger to fill the page but are on the right. They have both kept with their not making it crowded for colour schemes as this a clear and classic view. appeals to their target Kerrang! has listed audience. articles whereas Q is more detailed for a Imagery mature audience. The images on Q show solo artists and one Design Symmetry member of a band as this The composition suggests is more personal and that both magazines are mature whereas Kerrang! horizontally as Kerrang! Contains a variety of images of band members has a column of writing on to reflect on their genre the right side and images and appeal to their o the left so young audiene. Images on audiences are attracted Kerrang! Are more whilst Q has articles on collage-y whilst Q is more the right to appeal to a formal and modern. mature audience.