COLOUR PALETTE: Media coursework: 3 music magazine cover analysis: Kerrang.

The title is bold, unusual, and spreads across the top of the page; this makes the title appealing to the music genre, as well as big and noticeable. The bar on this left of the page is also important to consider. First of all, it follows the colour scheme, containing black and yellow. Also, it provides images showing stars from various bands such as The main image is very effective in gaining reader interest as it shows a star music player in colour, and great contrast. The fact that the main image overlaps the title is interesting as it provides further interest to the main image. The over line section with the yellow bar also has bold and noticeable text, possibly adding to the theme of content in this cover, relating to the rock genre.

Life is loud is the subheading and arguably subhead of the page. This is also covered by the main image portraying further examples of cover overlapping. This The middle text, featuring the splash of the cover, also in huge font, and bold, is also The colour scheme of interesting as this the magazine cover is music genre appears to something to be be associated with rock. considered as it is The font type and size firstly, a basic portrays influence from scheme with few the genre, making it colours, besides The only exception to colours featured in the colour scheme is images. The colours this section, featuring are black, white, and the red outlines of yellow. The basic images and a phrase. colour scheme is a This does not take away good idea as it means of overlapping in this cover. For instance, the Kerrang features a lot from the interest of the 100 greatest gigs ever heading is used here to overlap the main rest of the cover, image, as is all other content on the lower section of the cover page. however, as it is only in The main image itself overlaps the title and life is loud subhead. The the corner, not taking overlapping is used here so the reader is focused at the content from away from the heading the front layers of the cover layout. It also supplies interest to the or main image. Only The content featured is interesting to consider. For example, the lack of an ascender for the 100 gigs heading is interesting. There is not space between the greatest and the gigs ever underneath it. It wants the heading to be scrunched up so it relates to the rusty font theme. This all relates to the genre of rock music, which usually has this sort of content featured. Another The main the images in the corner, The colour scheme is simple, black, white, and red. The example istitle is of a classical, old which shows two singers rocking out. This is interesting as style font. Unlike Kerrang, there are of rock music. Notice the relevance. background itself is completely black, supplying a it also relates to the expression theme CoverandCountry music: 2: there is actually no headings, simplistic design to the cover. The text is either white or The barcode is also interesting, as it is fairly large for a magazine barcode. It features a website, little amount of content at all. This red, with the occasional yellow subhead as part of the date, and telephone number as well as the code itself. This implies that people who read this may be due to the fact that the page. The colours of text all make the text stand out magazine may be fairly attracted to it. audience and readers of this more as they contrast with the black background, as magazine are not into large they appear to be much brighter, making them much amounts of content on their pages; more noticeable. In this sense, the content is much they just simply like country music. more easy to spot and can make the reader more

The main image is very noticeable as it truly contrasts from its dark background behind it. The image of the man is very interesting, as he under laps the title, as well as other text, showing that he is a background feature. This may have been done to highlight the text, as well as him, as he didnt need to be at the front layer due to colour contrast already showing him off. There are no other images, possibly due to the fact that the fans The main image may have a certain representation to it. The main image is very bright, and not just in comparison to the background. The image has sunlight reflecting on the mans face. Since the cash lives sell line says he lives to tell about it, it is implied that he has just survived a life threatening illness, and has recovered. The bright image due to sunlight reflection portrays how he is no bight and happy due to his recovery. The main image could be foreshadowing content in the magazine based on the mans recovery. The sell line itself could count, as it is red. Red could be a connotation for blood. Cover 3: Hip-hop: This is associated with death and illness. This could also relate to the content of the main story. The Title is once again, stretched The title is overlapped by across the top of the page, as this is the main image, which itself an effective way of contributing to is overlapped by text to the cover layout. The font for this make that stand out more. text is thick bold, so the word stands This image is relevant to out more. It is also in bright yellow, the music genre and its surrounding a black background so content, featuring a hip hop colour contrast can occur. artist. This gets the audience appealed.

A close look reveals a small technical over line feature showing the date of the magazine, as well as the $2.50 in price. The fact that it is small is not unusual, considering date and price are usually inserted as small inside a barcode. Since there is no barcode possibly due to reduced content since old country music fans prefer Cash lives is possibly the sell line, as this part of the cover reveals featured content based on how Cash lives and tells about it. This was probably a huge reason why sales for this were high. This is part of the magazine The title itself gives away that this is of the country genre of music, so old fashioned people will enjoy it. The overhead is not designed to stand out above the title, image or other content, but it does supply info of who is featured in the magazine. This could attract readers to be more interested.

The main image is there, firstly, as it supplies interest via the promotion of a hip hop star on the magazine cover, but also through colour contrast as it is the only piece of content not yellow, black and white purely. This adds affect in terms of position and role within the cover design and layout. The image also relates to the target audience of the hip hop genre, as this star will raise interest for the readers who like hip hop, and it also shows what hip hop genre is all about. Content on cover Barcode position is interesting. It is at the bottom, insignificant.

The content featured all appears as small white or yellow text sentences underneath, larger, more bold subheadings. The subheadings are big, bright and bold as they generally attract The colour scheme is important to consider. Much like Kerrang, this has a simple palette of white, black, and yellow, excluding colour from the main image. However, while scheme is basic, the fact that content is designed to stand out from boldness, colour contrast and mostly large headings and sub-headings makes up for the small range of colours. The colour scheme is not that

The sell line for this would be JAY-Z, hes back. Since that is highlighted in big bright lettering to make it stand out. This promotion of a returning star raises interest. Dj premier and the other subheadings could also qualify.

The target audience would be for presumably young teenagers or young adults who enjoy hip hop, rap, and genres similar to it in the art of music. The content of the cover, such as the young, cool star, and the big bold writing, relate to that. The audience is somewhat similar to that of the Kerrang audience, only smaller due to a less popular genre and possibly slightly younger too, as Kerrang age range of audience may vary more.