Second Analysis of Music Magazine Cover

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The masthead on this KERRANG music magazine cover has been created in a very affective way. The masthead's style is as if it has been smashed with something, this can also be seen as strings of a guitar the way the lines of the cracks on the masthead have been laid out and also the sound of a guitar string is a similar sound like "kerrang". The font of the masthead is also BOLD this makes the masthead stand out and it creates a strong and aggressive sort of tone to the audience it appeals to and represents itself to. This bold and black tone on the masthead also links to the artists that are shown on the front cover of the magazine, the main artist who in the center of the splash "Simon Neil" has be presented in the middle of the magazine in the white hooded top. This makes him stand out of the band as the other two band members are in black clothing. The link between the artists and masthead are that the main thing on the magazine's front cover is the masthead as it tells the audience which magazine it is, and then the main artist from the band is in the same colour and represented with the same boldness style which shows the target audience who the main artist is within this magazine.

There are two camera angle shots that have been used on this magazine's front cover, the first one is the artist that is centered in the middle of the magazine's cover, he is shown as a medium close up. The other two artists on either side of him are more of a close up shot as on the two artists behind the main centered artist, they are closer in towards there face where as the main artist has more of his center and upper body showing in the image.

There is also advertisements that have been promoted and shown on the bottom of the magazine's front cover, this shows that there has been a lot of money put into this magazine and it is a decent magazine to purchase.

Ideology & Institution

The people who have designed and created this magazine front cover have designed it to be aimed at the target audience who like rock music. This is shown because they have used the images of artists and the band who play rock music and the target audience will know this when they see the images of the band displayed on the front cover of the music magazine. Another thing is that Kerrang is a rock magazine, so when the audience see this they will know 100% that this relates to them if they have interest in this type of genre in the music side. 

Audience

The target audience that this music magazine relates to is people who like the genre of rock music, this is shown by the name of the magazine which is the masthead saying Kerrang as it is well known to be one of the top rock music magazine's and also the main band that is represented on the magazine shows that it is a rock music magazine of the way they are presented to the target audience. 

Representation

The representation for this music magazine's front cover has been aimed at the target audience which is for the people who are like the band shown on the cover or who like the music that the magazine represents. The type of clothing they wear could also be a representation to the people whom it targets towards.