Music Magazine Analysis

Audience feedback on Favourite cover(s) out of all of them

Kerrang! Magazines:

Negative feedback:- Too Visually Busy (distracting)

- Dislike the colour schemes - Doesn’t engage to read

- Don’t recognise some artists- Models all look fake/boring photos- not gender/ethnically diverse at all

Positive feedback:- Seems like a lot of interesting info to read

- eye-catching- recognise most artists

- mostly all rock genre means can be confident in liking new artists featured

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

Makes it personal,From my own questionnaire, Q+A with artists found to be most popular wanted article

‘KERRANG!’ catchy head titleFont is cracked as if the sound of the music.The Sound of the word sounds like a musical instrument, relating theme.

Competition, Download festival, connection between them (audience/music genre)Readers are also less able to buy VIP tickets (students)

15, big group, audience-young and sociable

‘Mega comp’ language informal, shortened words, immediate information, young audience

Title is over the Model,connotations that they feel the title is more important than the artist/model.

Model (Hayley Williams) looks venerable, head tilted represents innocence (childlike behaviour)naked arm positioned reveals bare arms/armpit (femininity)Facial expression: open/revealed, no shadows etc. pretty, sexualised with pouting lips, wearing make-up.Light: bright on her, especially face, representing an open-ness, no shadows (nothing to hide) natural lookClothing: Yellow, light, feminine, slightly revealing‘SECURITY’ eye catching with contrasting black, matching other font colours on mag

White, plain background makes model stand out

All models are white, only 1 woman

‘ON YER BIKE!’ informal language, rock genre

Informal background here; ripped holes (familiar with school notebooks (audience – students))A lot of pictures, with poster special (audience type to put up bedroom posters)

Revealing what’s inside immediately to keep audience interested In keeping theme/genre

MOJO Magazines:

Negative feedback:- Some have too much writing (too small)

- some too busy (

Positive feedback:- prefer over Kerrang!

- Like Colour scheme, not hectic- know/recognise all artists – iconic (17year old)

- Like the diversity of artists/models

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

Overall quite basic dark colours, not hectic (what my audience feedback established they preferred)The dark background makes Bowie stand out without looking bare and boring.

Head title bold and eye catching, it’s over the artist model which could have connotations of higher importance, but Bowie’s trademark lighting strike is incorporated.

Colours, although subtle and basic, work really well together on this cover, the pink runs consistently and ties it all together.

Clear title of artist, as big as the title ‘mojo’ to show equal value. And to catch audience’s interest.

Text pull out, intrigues audience to; those who are familiar with bowie as well as those who aren’t.

Iconic image of Bowie, will be recognised immediately.

Informal language, audience will be young-ish

What's inside, immediate info

32 pages

Model (Bowie) centre of the mag, at eye level (equality) his pale skin contrasts with the dark, makes him stand out to centre of attention. His pose is interesting,opened mouth usually represents sexual desire, linking to pull out quote ‘there was nothing I wouldn’t try’ and Bowies sexual orientation rumours through his career, it entices the reader to buy the mag to read the article.

No extra pictures of artists discussed inside, gives bowie the spotlight

Negative feedback:-Too much writing around the edges - Not drawn in by the rapper artists- Feels as if it lacks depth (articles)

Positive feedback:- Like the colour schemes; particularly red,white,black

- Interesting pictures- Like the diversity of the artists

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

Rolling Stone Magazines:

XXL Magazines:

Negative feedback:- Sexist! (lack of women)- lack of racial diversity

- Seems ‘fake’; not interesting artists' articles- Not familiar with artists

- Dislike photos; too similar, not visually engaging

Positive feedback:- Colours aren’t too hectic

- Background makes photos stand out

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

Negative feedback:- Too busy, too many pictures- not very interesting pictures

- Photos; too close-up- Colour schemes too hectic (pinks/yellows)

- Too much writing

Positive feedback:-Familiar with artists

- Good diversity with models; race/gender- Not sexualised images

- Confident in enjoying the articles inside

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

NME Magazines:

Featured picture inside; her double page article

Model (Lady Gaga is over the head title ‘NME’ representing importance.

Subtitle ‘LADY GAGA’clear title of featured artists, as big as magazine title and is not hidden – represents the importance of the artist Bold and brightly contrasting

blue and yellow, this title is attention grabbing, also with a slight 3D shadow behind, it stands out more then the ‘NME’ title

‘Unzipped’ referring to the zips on her bodysuit, but also enticed the reader to think Lady Gaga is being more honest than usual in this article.

Reference to swearword, the aimed audience will be swearing themselves, might even entice younger viewers to read just because it swears.‘YOU?’ also personalises it.

Overall still quite crowded, a variety of colours, fonts and sizes

Lots of text of the information inside the mag, a variety of music genres to get the attention of a wider audience group.

Gold as colour has connotations of wealth and power, representing what Gaga aims for

Lady Gaga, although looks revealing, she actually seems less sexualised than Hayley Williams on Kerrang, Gaga is in control of what is seen and what isn’t