Magazine Annotations

Here is a Kerrang! magazine that I have annotated. I screen grabbed this to add it to my blog.

Magazine Responses

I annotated the magazine Kerrang! The genre of this magazine is music. This magazines target audience is boys and girls aged 13-19 mostly teenagers who are interested in music and want to know about their favourite bands. We know this because of the images, fonts and information used on the magazine cover, the images of the bands and the band names suggests this to us, but other people may be interested in this magazine aswell if they like this genre. The music genre of this magazine is mainly rock and alternative, you can tell this by the bands listed on the front of the magazine, also the colour schemes and fonts. The title is black and bold, they also have an explanation mark so it grabs your attention more and it adds more attitude to the title.  The main image is of a well known band that sings songs of the music genre, rock. The pictures tie in with the colour schemes as they are not dressed in bright colours, mainly blacks and whites. The main guy of the band is in white in front of two that are in white, the front guy stands out more as the colours contrast. The colour scheme of this magazine is blacks and whites and the puffs and plugs are red which helps them stand out from the rest of the magazine, these are the things that the magazine editor wants the audience to see and be intrigued by, as well as the rest of the information on the magazine cover. The font used for the masthead is sans serif as most magazine editors use that as there masthead font, for it to be noticed as the masthead. Whereas the main coverline is serif font, similar to other magazines so you can recognise the main coverlines. The masthead and main coverline are both big fonts so that they appeal to the audience. The masthead is also in black font and that is the only black font on this magazine cover so that stands out from the rest, the main coverline is in white on top of blacks and whites with a black outline so this also appeals to us. The other coverlines are in sans serif font as well as the mast head but they are much smaller, but we are still able to see and notice them. The coverlines call out to us because most of them are on a red background and in white font. All the other coverlines are white and on a dark background so we are able to read them. All but the word ‘paramore’ which is red and it is advertising another band, but this is still tied in with the black, white and red colour scheme. This also calls out to us as no other font is in red, and it’s something the editors want us to see. All the images on the front of this magazine are bands or singers, suggesting to the audience that it is a magazine and f you read this or the magazine appeals to you then you obviously enjoy your music and want to know about the bands and singers. The magazine also lists all the other bands that are mentioned in the magazine and they have a range of different bands, manly all from the same music genre and having something for everyone that likes that music genre. It also advertises a ticket to ‘give away’ on the front for a music festival, so that might intrigue more readers if the like festivals. This suggests that there may be more festivals listed inside and helps the readers find them and know information about gigs or festivals that include this music genre.