Magazine Second Cover Analysis

This type of magazine is a music/rock music magazine. From the front cover the type of articles that are going to be inside are interviews with bands, reviews, secret albums released and posters. The target audience for this magazine is people form their teens and up also people that like rock music. The interests of the target audience is maybe keeping up to date with their favourite band and finding out when new albums are coming out.

 The modes of address from the central image and text is that it says that ‘here to wake up your town’ and the person is holding a megaphone suggesting that they are going to talk about something within the magazine. The type of relationship that it wants with the reader is that inside the magazine there is going to be an influx of information.

Sleeping with siren is on the front cover of the magazine because they are a rock group and the genre of the magazines rock music. The anchorage says ‘sleeping with sirens-here to wake up your town’ in this sense because sleeping with sirens are a screamo band that they are going to wake up your town, the magazine is using play on words. The overall message the artist is giving is a friendly and that they are joking around because some of them are pulling faces and the one in the middle is looking directly into the camera to give the reader a sense that they are looking directly at them. Yes groups are being represented, the main group is sleeping with sirens and they are represented with a picture and text so are my chemical romance, green day and fall out boys, Metallica are represented just by text by the magazine to suggest there might be a little article on them and not a big one.

 The buzzword is ‘revealed’ this gives the effect that it is exclusive information and was a secret. The design of the title block tells the reader that the magazine is full of hard-core rock music information because it is all in block capitals and it looks like it has been cut up. The title of the magazine tells the reader that it is well known because the middle image is half covering the title so people would know the name otherwise they wouldn’t do that.

 The puffs on the magazine front cover suggest that there will be exclusive information inside and also there will be interviews with bands inside, the target audience that the magazine is trying get to read the magazine are people looking to gain information on their favourite bands and gain information on new bands, also they have a free poster inside to try a tempt the reader to buy it.

There is no slogan on the front of the magazine. The colours that are used is red with a yellow spiral theses colours nice because they make me want to read it and find out what is inside. The font that that is used is big, bold and all in capitals which makes it stand out so that it catches the reader’s eye so they buy it. The strategies that the magazine uses to attract an audience is using posters and also saying that they have exclusive information to offer the reader which would attract people because they can’t get the information anywhere else.