Front cover essay

I have chosen this magazine because it signifies everything a normal magazine would use, to target the audience, there are a lot of components to make the front cover at the end of production, and how it is made so attractive to the certain demographic.

I think the demographic for this magazine, is teenagers fourteen plus, that enjoy rock music, I think this because the magazine signifies this to me, by using the colours, the images and also the style of text. The main image is very powerful, and I think would bring the target in because, of the eye contact of the image which catches the targets eye, which is the main thing the front cover wants to do catch the audiences eye. The masthead is very bold with a black background and white text, so it stands out from all the other text, also the main image of the front cover hides some of the masthead, this gives the image a very good field of depth. The selling line is directly in the Primary optical area, the colours around the selling line are very bright again to catch the audience’s attention, as it is a very bright yellow with a bold black font.
The main cover line of the image is in a white font, with a red outline to make it stand out; there are a lot of cover lines on the front cover of the magazine.
There is a clear Guttenberg diagram on the front cover with the selling line in the primary optical area then another cover line in the optical area, also there is the price and dateline in the optical area.
The Principal of thirds does not seem to apply to the image. The balance of the image is very informal there is no symmetry in the image but the image is balanced by the top half of the image being very bright , and the bottom half is quite dark, with a shadow, it is a vertical and radial balance.
The colours of the front cover, are all very bright they consist of black white and red and yellow, they are all colours that contrast with each other so they stand out a lot more, the font of the front cover is identical to the rest, a very average font, but is very bold, and in some places very big.

The Front cover of this kerrang magazine is very bold, I think if I walked past it it would defiantly catch my eye, it is not in my demographic but I can see why people would buy this magazine.