Research And Planning : Analysis Of Music Cover 2

This is the second magazine that I am going to analyse.

Audience:
* This magazine is based at teenagers around 14-20 like my previous magazine, again being in a E in the Social Economic Grouping System.
* With Paramore being the lead story on the magazine the first assumption would be that this magazine was bias slightly towards being more something girls would read rather than guys.
* Teenagers that like to catch up with the latest rock gossip and interviews would enjoy reading this magazine. Also paramore fans would immediately want to buy it, as well as people interested with the rest of the artists on the cover.

Representation And Layout:
* The designer of this magazine has purposely used the band paramore (a well known rock/punk) band on the front of it to get the audiences attention.
* The image is large and centred in the middle of the page to emphasise the genre and the information inside.
* The expressions on each of there faces show that its a rock magazine. This is because if it was a pop one, the artists on the front usually stand pouting or smiling at the camera where as in this case, the people act more confident.
* The masthead is positioned behind the image. This might have been done because of the importance of the image; but as a result of this the masthead is difficult to read suggesting mystery and a contrast to most other genres of music.
 *The stories and writing that are included are purposely scattered around the image, making it the main focus of the magazine and directly emphasising it as much as possible.
*The shot type used is a medium closeup. This is so that we can focus on there faces clearly but also see what their wearing.

Genre:
*The genre of this music magazine is rock/punk
* You can tell this by the colours used; the main ones being red, black and white which were the most voted colours in my questionnaire to be associated with rock magazines.
* Also unlike in a pop magazine, this one has some area's of distortion in there.
* The designer has purposely used one of the most well known current rock/punk bands around to get people immediately facinated in it.

Media Language:
*The peace sign gesture that Hayley makes with her hand suggests the rockish/ punkrocker that she is. This shows the freedom of speech and confidence/ fearlessness that the group have.
*The males in the group are all wearing black and very dark colours which associates to rock where as Hayley in the middle has red on which gives it a bit of colour. By doing this is emphasises her which is what the designer wants.