Cover Analyis

The magazine is named Rolling stones, this magazine has a target audience of the older generation, due to the music featured in this magazine being of the old days, but this magazine also features new music to try and capture the younger audience. Rolling stones is a Bi-weekly magazine., around the price of £5 an issue, but even at this price people will still buy because it's one of the most well known music magazine in the world.

The masthead is placed at the top of the cover, like a lot of well known magazine the masthead is placed behind the maim image. Rolling stone doesn't have a selling line, this is because they don't need one, Rolling stone has been going for over 20 years so the publishers are confident that even without a selling line the magazine will sell plenty of copies.

The main cover image is of Kieth Richards and Johnny Depp, both featured in a friendly 'brotherly' pose. This image positioning links to the main article name 'Kieth Richards & Johnny Depp Blood Brothers' this is about the close bond that both of them share. Right at the top of the magazine cover, they are other cover lines featuring 3 bands, probably with new music news to be told to the audience. The barcode is placed at the bottom left of the cover but in this magazine doesn't feature the issue number, this is placed just above the main image along with the date of publication.

Cover Analyis

This magazine is called NME, which is well known for alternative music and indie music. The target audience for this magazine is like most music magazines, which are pointed towards the teenage years and mid twenty's. Each issue is a weekly issue selling around about £3 just like Kerrang. But even at this price many people will buy the weekly issues.

The masthead is placed at the top left corner of the cover, and it is placed behind the main cover image, it's placed here and not in front of the image because NME is a well established magazine so the company who publish don't have to worry about not getting any sales, so basically it could be placed anywhere and most people would still realize its NME. The selling line of NME is what NME actually stands for which is 'New Music Express' which is the philosophy of NME to give the reader; information on what new music is coming out.

The main cover image in NME is of a band named The Automatic, the band are placed in a line with the front man placed in the middle, each band member are doing their own little pose, this shows that the band are quite friendly and are jokers. The cover line is about The Automatic's past of how they became who their are, and why they are a band. In the top right corner know as the ear we have another image of Liam Gallagher with someone else, relating to the other cover lines, there are more other cover lines at the bottom of the magazine featuring album reviews and brand new music thats coming out. The barcode is placed at the bottom of the cover, featuring the date and price of publishing. The colour of the font's are yellow and red, which are bright and recognizable to anyone who knows NME.

Cover Analysis

This magazine is called Kerrang, which is a well known rock and heavy metal styled magazine. The target audience for this magazine is for teenagers to mid 20's, it's quite an expensive weekly magazine selling for about £3 an issue, but it will get costumers buying it because it's a well known brand.

The masthead is placed at the top of the cover, like most magazines and is placed behind the main cover image, it's placed here and not in front of the image because kerrang know where ever they place it, people will buy the magazine. The selling line of kerrang is 'Life is loud' this is kind of a rock/metal saying because that type of music is best played very loud.

The main image is of a band called 30 Seconds To Mars, the actual image is of the whole band facing towards the reader. The main article is linked to the main image because it's about the making of the album, with the main cover line "The making of a modern masterpiece". On the left hand side they are more images of bands also featured in the magazine, with them extra cover lines indicating the main point of each image. The barcode is placed at the bottom of the page along with this is the date is was published and what number issue it was. At the top and bottom of the cover are other band names that are featured in the rest of the magazine but are not as important as the main bands featured. The company know that who ever they place on the magazine cover, a lot of fans will end up buying the magazine. The colours in Kerrang are very effective and recognizable straight away, the font is unique to Kerrang so people know that it is Kerrang not any other magazine.

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Coventions of a Magazine

Masthead title piece: Basically the name of the magazine itself, usually place at the top of the magazine.

Price: Cost of magazine.

Date: When it was published can be weekly or monthly.

Issue number: The actual number of magazine issued since launch. e.g since the launch in 2005-2009 'The Music Magazine' has published 100 issues

Barcode: Electronically code used to determine what magazine it is and at what retail price.

Teaser: Usually phrases which grabs the readers attention.

Main Feature: Headline: summarizing the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader. Usually connected with the image.

Subtitle: Smaller headline that summarizes another feature.

Smaller Feature: Features include in the magazine.

Images: Size: Close up to meduim close up. Image sizes help promote the magazine better.

Font: Style and size of type face.

Colour: Specific.stylistic/thematic types.

Graphics: Graphical shapes to highlight features.

Offers/Adverts Blurb: Banner-style shape featurig free poducts/promotions.

Coventions of a Magazine plus analysis

This magazine is called PSM3, which is a gaming magazine directed towards those who play video games and only for people who like playing PlayStation 3 games. The magazine is aimed to the over 15's as there is a age rating in the bottom right of the cover, this will be due to the fact that most video games now usually are over the age of 15 as a rating, and also because theirs a wider audience of gamers over the age of 15. PSM3 is a well known PS3 magazine so the company know that even if they conceal their Masthead, they will still get plenty of magazine sales. Their selling line 'Uk's No.1 PlayStation 3 magazine' proves to the readers that this magazine is well known so it's probably a good magazine to pick up and read to find out all the information you need on PS3 games.

There main image is of an up-coming game named Bioshock 2, and that's all what PSM3 want the reader to know that's inside the magazine, this isn't because the other games in the magazine are rubbish, it's because this game is a big game and know that readers will see the cover and buy it just because of that game. the cover line is just below to tell the reader just a little bit about Bioshock 2. With the image it fills up all of the cover this helps readers or new readers from the distance recognize it's about the game and then find out which magazine it's previewed in, this also helps with the size of the Masthead which is pretty big and noticeable from a far, the colour of the font matches with the actual game. In the bottom left corner is the date of publishing which in the case of this magazine is every month, also with the date is the bar code and then finally who actually publishes the magazine, in this case 'Future Publishing' who own quite a few gaming magazines.

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