The magazine I have chosen to do my research on is Kerrang. The reason for this, is because it is what would be competition for the music magazine that I am designing.
A magazine that is aimed for older male teenagers and now and then female older teenagers, has a backroom staff that is mainly female, that's also including the editor.
The reason it talks to it's target audience is because they can relate and make a connection with the magazine. "Life is Loud" is a good slogan for the magazine because people who like the style of music in the magazine would prefer it to be loud. The title "KERRANG" is also very clever, because most the readers would like to be the musicians within the magazine and the onomatopoeic sound of a guitar for the title gets there attention. The only whit space there is on the front cover usually is the box behind the masthead and sometimes that is coloured in.
The talk to the reader like you they are an important person and it is very formal and it treats the audience like a friend and tries to bond with them like a friend would.
NME
I also looked at NME because of the style they used in the contents page. I liked the way they used informal questions to get the readers attention about the articles within the magazine. I felt if the questions didn't give much away then i feel that reader may want to look on and find out what the article is about.
I took into consideration what front covers are like and what sizes music magazines usually are. Looking at a majority of these made me realise that nearly all the covers are in colour, they are usually round the A4 size maybe even slighty bigger. So my idea would be to make a pocket sized magazine with an oddly coloureed front cover.
