The document discusses several music magazines aimed at different audiences. Kerrang targets rock fans aged 18+ and discusses bands, new albums, and tours. It uses red, white, and yellow colors and offers free posters. Q targets an older, middle class audience that prefers LPs and articles about older music. It costs £3.45. NME focuses on current music and uses yellow, white, and red. It has a major article on The Killers. Drummer targets drummers and fans of bands like Gorillaz and System of a Down, using bright colors and offering free posters. It covers different music genres like rock and jazz.

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6. The title ‘The Big Cheese’ it has a humours title The Colours are mostly red and yellow. The yellow symbolises ‘Cheese’ and the teen punk type music of the cover band and the red goes with the lead singers hair. Other Major bands like In flames and 30 seconds to mars. In Flames is Death metal so it shows them going in to another genre Bar code, price and date ‘ win download tickets’ competition to attract people Band is in the middle and in front of the title which shows their importance Other Articles to attract different audiences like Death Cab For Cutie which is light rock The guys are making funny faces while she is making a hand sign which is associated with rock Band is aimed At Teens

8. ‘ The Hammer’ Connotes a Heavy action and hammers are made out of metal and the genre is heavy metal Use of Red, Black and yellow. Red can signify blood or anger. Black is evil and darkness, There is a lightning bolt from the darkness and going through ‘the hammer’ tidal which shows power. The yellow is used representing bio hazards. Megadeth is in a different font and coulour so it is more eye catching as it is the main artical Free CD Promotes Magazine Bar code and price tag Thrash Represents an Extreme Action Names Well known bands like Metallica Aimed at an older audience because of the classic bands named which were the best in their time Main imagae of Classic rock star looking angry on a motor bike. ‘The resurrection’ shows that he hasn’t been active in rock for a time, the use of the work ‘pi**ed off’ relates to the type of audience the bands are aimed at

10. Title vibe which is like a pulse you can feel from hearing music The word sex is used which shows that this music magazine has gossip elements to it The genre of this magazine is RNB and hip hop He has jewelry which connotes wealth Drops names like Rihanna to attract more people to buy this magazine Black clouds and lightning is in the background to represent power 50 cent is on the cover who is a well known artist He has his designer hats for further promotions The main coluors used in this magazine are yellow and white, red is used on top of this for key words to stand out more 50 cent is wearing black and the back ground is blue the yellow and white contrast with these colours to create some tension Date, price and barcode 25 is in a way highlighted with red so it will be eye catching as it linked to an important article

11. Kerrange name from the noise made when smashing a guitar, the typography of the word Kerrange looks like its been smashed, it has a sub title ‘life is loud’ which makes the title look like its been smashed with sound Well known bands like Iron madden and Tritium, the magazine is promoting their tour. Other well known bands with articles of new albums and things that interest the target audience Coulours are mainly yellow, white and red. The red is to make things stand out like ‘FREE’ and the famous bands names. Avenged sevenfold has exaggerated presentation ‘worlds most dangerous band’ is used to target the people because it seems interesting to them Price 1.99 and barcode Free posters to tempt people in to buying the magazine

13. Bar code Formal clothes and a watch signifiers of middle class LPs article for older music fans and people who would rather have the quality Q the name was based upon cueing tracks but they did not want the magazine to be mistaken for a snooker magazine so they changed it to Q The beetles are well known and names like this and oasis are used to attract audiences Articles about the 70’s, shows that its aimed at an older audience Coulours are black white and red, the red is more eye catching Older bands used to attract older audiences ‘Pulp’ is massive on the cover showing it’s the main article and being eye catching The writing that’s on him is white because his wearing black and the writing which is not on him is black when the background is white, this shows contrast

14. Bar code and price, £3.45 Humours picture which exaggerates him having a personality crisis with three different representations of personality Name drops massive bands like metallic and slipknot Article on a festival of music NME stands for new music express which means that they specialize in current music Yellow and white are main colours used. Red is used on the title NME so it can stand out ‘The’ is little and black while ‘Killers’ is massive and white which shows some contrast as do the personality he splits into. The killers are a major band as so their name is the biggest thing on the Cover

15. ‘ Drummer’ a magazine for drummers and about current drumming, it is written massive and bold to represent drums System of a down and Gorillaz are well-known big bands Bar code Price, with only at the front which makes people think it should be more and that they are getting a bargain Free posters of great drum kits for drum fanatics The tag line for the Gorillaz article attracts the audience because they want to find out what its all about He main colours used are white and yellow. These are bright colours over the red background and the picture The picture is of a cartoon of the drummer from Gorillaz which their fans will recognise Not only one genre, this drumming magazine does jazz as well as rock but it is all about music

16. ‘Revolver, this is an aggressive magazine and the title represents a gun Story interests Slipknot fans, Slipknot is a major band in metal Name drops Metallica who are well known The main colours used are red, white and blue/grey. The red stands out and is written with an ! On the end Which is loud and dangerous Emo death match, humorous title and interesting article which compares two well known bands Bar code Black back ground which makes it seem like he’s coming out of darkness only capital letters, more eye-catching

17. Underrated Readers Profile Equal numbers of males and females targeted Average age is 16-17 and are still studying ABC1 Readers of Underrated are loyal fans and are fanatical about their genres of music. They buy many albums and have musical devices to listen to their favorite bands anywhere. The readers are all individuals who like to be their own person and are independent in thought and this reflects through the cloths they were . They like spending time on the computer on social networks and also they play computer games.

19. Age Of Respondents 16 17 18 Gender Of Respondents Boys Girls Chosen Genre of Respondents Rock RNB Hip hop Metal Soul Indie Electronic Punk

20. How Often Do People Buy Magazines Weekly Monthly Yearly Never The Respondents Preferred Magazines Kerrang Vibe Q Metal Hammer Mojo NME Others: The Big Cheese None How Often Do People Go To Gigs Often Sometimes Not much Never

21. How often are the respondents on a computer 1 hour 2 hours 3-4 hours 4+ hours What Types Of Article Appeal To The Respondents The Most Gossip Fashion Albums reviews Gig reviews Interviews How Many Albums The Respondents Buy Or Download None 1-2 3-5 6-9 10+

22. What Hobbies Do The Respondents Have Instruments/ Electronic composing Sports Shopping TV Social Networks Games Martial Arts