Kerrang magazine annotation

 

 

The magazine front cover displays different colours on the page, with green, yellow, orange, white and black, to highlight the halloween theme of the magazine with its associated colours. The magazine appears bright and eye catching to the audience, which will catch their eye, so that more people are likely to buy it.

There are many different types of font to keep the audience engaged and the magazine appears more eye-catching as there is so many interesting things on the page.

Even though the main image is partly covering the masthead, the magazine front cover is still recognisable to the regular readers and any other people that might want to read the magazine. This is because the magazine is so popular and well known to music fans that people automatically know what the magazine is about due to the distinctive and bold masthead.

There are many smaller images of the posters which feature in the magazine to encourage the potential readers to buy it if they see something that interests them.

 

 

 

The colours on the contents page are kept to red, yellow, black and white colours, with the colours which are in the images on the page (pink and orange).

The masthead of the contents page isn't as big as normal mastheads which brings more attention to the content in the magazine.

There is a message to the readers of the magazine from the editor to make it more personal for the audience and let the readers know that the magazine production are greatful and happy that the audience is buying their magazine.

 

 

There is a clear red, blue, black and white theme to the double page spread with associations with blood. This connects with the overall theme of the magazine being a halloween edition, with the text type and blood colouring to make the magazine flow more.
The contrast in the interview text (the red and white writing on black background) makes the double page spread stand out more to the readers as there is a clear distinction between the colours on the page.
The masthead has a horror theme to it which makes the pages flow and easily relate to each other.
There is a pull quote from the interview done with the band, to interest the readers and draw people into reading about them because the pull quote is something interesting and sometimes unexpected from the band they are interviewing.
The page is split up into two parts, with the main image on the left hand page and the interview on the right hand page. As the main image is on the left page, it makes sure when people are flicking through the magazine that the article and image are seen and draw attention to the page.
There is a subtitle clearly placed at the top left hand corner of the magazine double page spread, saying 'News', as it is clearly visable to the readers and follows the halloween theme with cobwebs on the text. This ensures that the audience are aware of what they are reading.