- Rock Sound is a monthly British magazine focused on rock music that was launched in 1999. - It has a circulation of 13,220 and targets readers ages 16 and older who have a strong interest in rock music. - The magazine covers news, new music, album reviews, features, and concert listings. It uses a consistent style with bold fonts, red and black colors to portray a rock theme.

1. Magazine research task
ock sound

2. Magazine information
• In rock sound magazines they use the genre rock. I feel their target
audience is males and females from the ages of 16 plus and have a strong
interest in rock music
• Rock sound was released in 1999.
• The circulation is 13,220 and is released every month.
• The editor is called Ryan Bird.
• The British edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the
French publisher Editions Freeway. The company who publish the
magazine now is called Freeway press inc.
• The current editor for the magazine is Ben Patashnik
• The magazine is distributed online and in shops.
• The magazines leading competitors include Kerrang, NME and Rock & Folk
• The brand identity is hardcore rock with a punk appearance.

3. The mast head is well
known so you don’t need
to be able to read the
whole of the masthead,
so they have put a famous
artist over the mast head
The strapline is advertising the bands that are going to be in the
Magazine so the viewer knows what is in the magazine
This subline will attract
fans to buy the
magazine as they’re
going to want to know
about the new album.
On the bar code there is
the price of the magazine
the issue number and date
and also the website of
the magazine
The strapline here tells us there
are posters so people are going
to be encourage to buy the
magazine because they’re going
to want posters of their favorite
artists
The cover feature is “black veil
brides” which is written in a
hardcore larger font, so it stands
out from the other sublines.
They have a cd to cd to
cover blank space at the
bottom of the magazine
The background is white
which contrasts well with
the text and other colours
on the magazine.
The main image on the takes up
most of the page. This etherizes
the importance of the character
on the front cover.
The house style for this
magazine consists of three
main colours; red, black
and white. There is also
more than one shade of red
on the magazine, there’s a
darker red and a lighter red.
All these colours symbolizes
rock music.
The fonts that the magazine use are all
very bold so they stand out, and one of
the sublines (black veil brides) look as if
they’ve been written in blood, which link
to the heavy rock theme the magazine
portrays

4. There are five sections to the
contents page, which help
organize the articles;
News & regulars
Exposure: The best new music!
Features
Albums
Lives
This instantly
encourages to the
reader to want to read
more as it is jumping
straight to the point
and telling the reader
that this page is going
to be telling us what is
inside the magazine.
These secondary
images attract the
reader as the images
consist of three well
known rock bands so
people are going to be
excited by this. The
images are also
ancered by the text
behind the images as
they tell you what the
images means/ what
the image is about.
Under each section there are
sub headings which go into
greater detail about what is
going to be on each page.

5. The double page spread for the cover feature is formatted with a large picture and text that acts as a border in the shape of an L.
This layout style follows the house style of the magazine because it uses the same colours and font that feature throughout the
magazine.
This pull quote includes
pieces of information
that the artist himself has
said, this entices the
reader.
This is the main
image of the
double page spread
which takes up
around ¾ of the
page. All the
people in the image
are posing in a rock
way which shows
the conventions of
rock, especially
through their
gestures and
clothing
This B is in the font
of the B in black veil
brides. So the B
stands out to the
reader and makes
them want to read
the text to see what
the text says.
This entices the reader as it is a quote from what Andy Black has actually said
so his fans are going to want to read about this. The shape that the text is in
also draws the attention of the reader as it stands out from everything else on
the page, the boarder also catches your attention.