magazine for. The cover price is shown on the front cover. This also represents the social classification for the demographics of the magazine. The demographics of this magazine would range from class B to D because they would be able to afford this magazine weekly. The people who are grouped in these social classes would listen to the same kind of music because they are using similar media consumption. The barcode always appears on the right hand side of the front cover. The bar code is a black and white serial number which can be read by a computer or app. This also tells the target audience what the date and issue number of the magazine is, so the audience know exactly what issue this is Puff / buzz word, the magazine is giving away a free item, so this is influencing the reader to buy the magazine, more because of the free item, because the reader is intrigued what songs are on the CD . So, if the reader wants the free CD they must buy the magazine. The skyline is telling the audience the genre of music, the genre of the magazine is rock music. You can tell this by one of the bands that are featured; Paramore is a rock band. There is also a pull quote about Paramore being in the UK, this is also a technique that the magazine uses to make the reader buy the magazine. The skyline is also a puff because its advertising a free poster and cd which is convincing the reader to buy the magazine so they can have these free items. They have also used a small image on the Skyline, with the band / artist name, so the reader could identify them. This is a pull quote from the main cover story which is being said in the perspective of the lead singer, you can tell this by the image of him being bigger on the page than the other band members. A pull quote is used to break up a piece of text on a magazine, it also helps to intrigue the reader to read the story behind the quote. The colour yellow is connoting the light and hope for the singer, since he was having trouble and his band members helped him through it. The reason why the other half of the quote is white is because its reflecting his life now which is good. The reason why this pull quote is on the front cover is because people can relate to the singer, since people do have problems, this is also showing a very different side of representation for the singer, since now he is being shown as a normal person and not a famous person because people will stereotype famous people not to have everyday problems like normal everyday working people. The font is a bold, san serif font that has yellow and white as its font colour. Its in capital letters to emphasise the point of the singer to the reader and to get the message / opinion of the singer to the readers. The Masthead is in red, bold, san serif font. The reason why the font is red, is to connote that the magazine has passion, love and power. The logo is also in the masthead, which is showing the reader the logo of the magazine and so if they see this logo again they will know its belongs to RockSound (brand identity). The main image, is covering the word sound on the tile which is conveying that the image is more important to the magazine than the masthead.
The website is mentioned at the bottom on the price tag because its out of the way but the reader could miss this is because its so small. The reason why magazines have websites is so there target audience, can go on the website and get the latest and up to date news from the magazine. The font is a san serif, black font. This is a puff because its influencing the reader to buy the magazine, by saying over 19 new bands to know about inside the magazine. The + 19 is in a bold san serif font. The new bands is in the colour yellow and in a bold but smaller san serif font and its in capitals which emphasis to the reader this is important and the reader should take notice. Underneath are some bands names in a white san serif font in capital letters; this is to tell the reader the importance of the bands. The and more, is to intrigue the reader to look inside this is in a yellow san serif font and this puff is on a green background Main Cover Line: Six Months is the length of time they will be in the jungle, it is bold yellow san serif font the reason why its in yellow is it connotes to honour and loyalty because they planned to complete the months in the jungle. Inside, Bring me the, is in a bold san serif font because its connoting to the light after the experience they have been through. Horizon, word is in yellow and white colour because at the end of the six months they do get to see the light; its in a bold serif font. The main cover line is all in capitals to empathise the point of the article but some of the font size is smaller than others to convey they are important to the cover line but not as important. Colour Scheme: The colour scheme for this issue is green, yellow and white. These colours are used because of the relationship with the main cover line / article because it was in a jungle which they are connoting to the reader. Red and black are also used which also compliments the colours because it helps balance the light and dark colours on the front cover and during the magazine. The layout of the magazine needs to be simpler because there is a lot to taken in just looking at the magazine so people can easily miss cover lines and other things on the front cover. The green and white symbol must be symbolising the Jungle which is linked to the main cover line because its behind the main image of the band and in front of the image and behind the main cover line. The cover lines titles are in a bold, san serif font in green and white colour. There is a bit of space in between the synopsis, so you can tell the difference between them, seen as white dots. There is an image which is about one of the cover lines on the cover. The mix of the 2 colours is connoting the light and goodness of the music. The cover title is in yellow san serif font, with a green background.
The main title, this tells the reader that it is the contents page; this is a white san serif font, bold. The white connotes to the rock music being heavenly perfection. The colour is used to convey the music is like no other genre of music and that rock music has a very high standard to live up to. The reason why the font is in capital letters is to inform the reader, that the title is important to this page. The text is on a black background because the colour is connoting the power of rock music has over its target audience. The colours also complement each other. The Editorial Note is welcoming readers to the magazine and giving the readers an introduction to whats going to be inside, which is written by the editor of Rock Sound. The note starts off with welcome to Rock Sound magazine. The font of Welcome To Rock Sound! is a bold, san serif font. The colour red of the font is connoting the love and passion the editor has for music. Thats why there is also a picture of him shouting to the heavens. The font of the editorial letter is a normal, black san serif font. Images are featured on the contents because they relate to the feature and regular articles. They also give the reader something else to look at besides the writing in the contents so it will be less boring for the reader to look at. The pictures are bright to look at so it makes the reader feel the contents page is livelier. The reader will be more excited to see images of their favourite bands / artist, so this will make them want to buy the magazine more, instead of seeing lists of artist / bands. The images are in the centre of the contents page which grabs the readers immediate attention once on this page, which makes them want to read on to find out about the images. Using Rock sound .TV at the bottom of the page is brand Identity and is used to remind the reader what magazine they are reading so next time they want to read the magazine they can buy the magazine. The folio numbers are at the bottom of the page this tells the reader what page they are on in the magazine. The font is in a bold, black, serif font. The main featured articles of the magazine have a red san serif font for their page number with a bold san serif font for their title. There is also a little synopsis underneath explaining what the article is going to be about, in a grey san serif font. The Noise is a sub-heading for the contents page. This mentions some of the featured articles, it also tells the reader what pages the articles are on.
The folio numbers are at the bottom of the page this tells the reader what page they are on in the magazine. The font is in a bold, black, serif font. Using Rock sound .TV at the bottom of the page is brand Identity to remind the reader what magazine they are reading so next time they want to read the magazine they can buy the magazine.
Featured article titles are in a yellow san serif font, which conveys to the reader that its the main title for the featured articles inside the magazine. There is a synopsis underneath the main title explaining to the reader what the articles are going to be about. The font is in a grey, smaller san serif font. There is also a sub heading, On The Cover, to tell the readers what articles appeared on the front page. The font is in a black, bold san serif font to provide a statement and because the band who appears on the content has black t- shirts on. The reason why there is folio on the content page is to tell the reader what page the article is on so the reader can go directly to that page without trying to finding in the magazine. The font of the folio numbers is in a bold san serif font which is in a large font than the featured articles because it has to stand out to direct people to that article. Thee font colour is black. The colour for the folio also matches the background colour. The font is in bold which makes a statement of being important which is why the magazine is using the colour for the folio numbers. Its on a red background because its compliments the mood the magazine wants to set. Here the magazine has used a line to separate the two columns of text for this article. The line is white to blend into the article, this is known as a gutter because the vertical space between columns or between two pages in the same spread. There is also a flush used in this article because type that is set so that one margin is even, as in flush right , meaning the left margin is straight while the left one is ragged. The Reviews box is to help separate up the page, it also looks like a thought box because its the magazines thoughts on those bands since its a review. There is a bold, san serif black font for the title. The sub heading of the box is in a san serif bold red font. The text is in a small font in black san serif font but in capitals to mark the importance of the bands being reviewed. Across the top is a sub title called In the Rock Sound This Month, this is in a white san serif font but bold font. Its then link to the puff called 19 new bands, this is a column which gives the reader page numbers to the article about the new bands. There is little description about the Exposure of the bands, in a grey san serif font. and it also gives the page number between where you can find the articles. Its on a black background to connote power and elegance of this music. The bands name is in capital letters to emphasise the importance of them. They are in a bold san serif font in colours of white and yellow.
This is the Rock Sound logo, which is brand identity because its reminding the reader what magazine they are reading and also next time the reader sees this logo they will know it belongs to Rock Sound magazine. Next time the reader / audience want to buy the magazine and they see this logo they know its Rock Sound magazine. The logo also is telling the reader is that if you play this cd you have to play it a 100 % volume. There is also brand identity with having the rocksound.tv at the bottom. The folio numbers are at the bottom of the page this tells the reader what page they are on in the magazine. The font is in a bold, bold, grey serif font. This is a sub story insert which runs alongside the main story. It has a title The light at the end of the tunnel. This is relating to the experience of Matt Heavy. The font is a bold, white sans serif font which connotes the journey they have had. Underneath the title is the tagline of the sub story which sums up the story, vengeance might be a pissed =off record but as Matt explains, theres more to it than fur and disgust so they are relating it back to the article but getting the front man thoughts of the experience. . The font is san serif font, in the colour yellow because its connoting also to the light that got the band through the experience. The text is in san serif white font, its a quote from Matt Heafy and also an image of the singer to see who the sub story is talking about. . The sub heading is in a bold, san serif font. It uses the colour white because its connoting to goodness and about how innocent the band was before they experienced life in the Jungle. The reason why the band name is yellow is because thats conveying to the audience the light of belief the band had to have to survive the experience. The sub heading sums up what it is about perfectly, its introduced the reader to the article they are about to read, its a bit long to be honest and not catchy enough to be a sub-heading. Here the magazine has used a line to separate the two columns of text for this article. The line is white to blend into the article, this is known as a gutter because the vertical space between columns or between two pages in the same spread. There is also a flush used in this article because type that is set so that one margin is even, as in flush right , meaning the left margin is straight while the left one is ragged. The article is in a san serif white font. This is telling the readers about the bands experience in the Jungle. There are two paragraphs which start with capital letters and in a yellow san serif font. This is to emphasise that these two paragraphs are the most important out of the whole article because they are explaining to the reader, where the band is now and did the band actually survive the jungle. In the article on this band the main colours have been yellow, white and green because these colours connote colours of the jungle and are a representation of the jungle. The image, of the band is on both pages, with a bleed that extended this and the next page. The back ground is a forest green to connote the jungle.
The image, of the compass is connoting the idea of the main article to the readers, because the band was in a jungle for six month, so they had to use a compass in the woods. The colour green is connoting the colour of the leaves / trees because in a jungle there is just trees in the landscape and nothing else around. The Folio numbers are at the bottom of the page this tells the reader what page they are on in the magazine. The font is in a bold, bold, grey serif font. The quote I thought I was going to be killed, is a quote by one of the members of the band. The quote is in a bold, san serif font with the colour of the font being white. The reason I think why they have used it is since the main image is of the band in a jungle scene; they are making it even more personal to the band by using the experience of a member (Matt Heafy). The reason why its at the top of the page is because its shows the band rethinking about the experience to the reader. The main title for this article is a play on word of brave new world, instead the title is Grave New World, since the band thought they were going to die in this experience, since the world brave is replaced with grave. Grave connotes to death or something that is dead. The Grave New World, could also have the meaning that the jungle is dangerous since grave can also mean this. The font size is big so the reader can tell that this is the title of the story, its also a quote by Caren Gibson one of the members of the band. The font is bold and is a san serif font. The reason the colour of the font is green and white is because its connoting to how the band saw the light at the end of the turnel of this experience. The colour green is connoting because they were in a jungle for six months. The rocksound.tv is brand identity because its reminding the reader what magazine they are reading and also next time the reader sees the words rocksond.tv they will know it belongs to Rock Sound magazine. This is also the link to their website so the reader can go online to find out more about Rocksound. The main image is of the band Trivium, in a jungle scene because the magazine is connoting the article through the image, because the band were in a jungle for 6 months. The band is wearing all black which is their signature colour for the clothing they wear. The band poses are conveying that the experience for them was tough because they look all tough. The image takes up the whole of the page, which conveys to the reader that this image is important.