Kerrang Magazine Analysis of Front Cover, Contents page and a Double Page Spread

Analysis of front cover:

Genre- Music

Audience- People with a lot of passion for music who have attitude.

Colour- fiery red and black.

Styling- picture of Linkin Park in a fiery background.

Text and Language used- Large header (Kerrang Legends) at the masthead. There are many pictures advertising interviews in the magazine on the left third. The cover line explains everything else important or significant in the magazine. The main image is of Linkin Park all together with a fiery background behind them. There is no skyline or a pull quote on the front cover of this magazine

Analysis of contents page: the contents page is mostly pictorial however at the bottom of the page it is a bit more text-led. This contents page is very detailed. This is because it has captions, pictures and information on the main articles in the magazine. This contents page would attract both the more visually orientated viewers and the more text-led viewers. The page is very well laid out and perfectly in order with the images at the top with page numbers on them and the information about the articles at the bottom all in order; therefore it is easy to match the pictures with the captions at the bottom with information about the articles. This is the most important part of the contents page is that it is clear and easy to use and Kerrang’s contents page is both of those.

 Analysis of double page spread: The layout and design of the DPS is a big picture of Jonathan Davis in Korn and with an article over the picture on the left hand side. There are just two columns in the DPS and the columns are organised like a newspaper would be. The image used is just Jonathan Davis sitting down, with quite a freaky smile. The headline is “Invasion of the body snatcher”