Moodboard

I did this moodboard to show the genre that I have chosen to use for my music magazine, which is rock/emo

Kerrang Reader Profile

Kerrang music magazine focuses on heavy metal/ rock music, the magazine links to Goth/Emo subgenre. From the reader profile, you could see that they target more male reader than female readers. The median age for the magazine is 19 year olds, this shows that they are targeting a younger generation as they understand more about the new trend in fashion, technology and media. On average you could see that 31 albums are being sold each year, from this you could say that it is a good amount as it is always hard for the students to buy an album with the money they earn. As the readers are at a very young age, fashion is very important to them, as they mimic the look of their rock stars, also the magazine talks to its audience in a language that the target audience understand. The Kerrang magazine gives its audience free posters of well known rock and heavy metal artist, this will encourage more people to buy the magazine because they get a big poster that they can put in their room.

To get the project going, we had to start by picking a music magazine and use their reader profile, to research their target audience
I chose to look at the NME Music magazine...

Contrasts and Comparisons of magazine front covers.

I looked at these two front covers to get a good idea of how a magazine should be and what should be included on a magazine, also i was able to compare the different magazines, this enable me to see that not all magazines have the same layout and the same colour scheme, they are all done different to catch the reader's attention