Magazine Analysis: Case study- Kerang

Magazine Analysis: Case study.

Kerang

Colour in magazine

Analysis of the front cover.

1)    There are quite a few colours used on the front cover of this magazine, they are very exciting and bright colours.

2)    The colours used are red, this represents anger, yellow, purple, black; they attract the audience because they are colours that catch your attention straight away.

Analysis of the colour used in the magazine.

1)    The main colours used throughout this magazine are red, black, yellow and purple they have stuck to colours that are used on the front cover of this magazine. The colour red refers to violence and anger, the colour yellow represents new ideas. The colour black is shown to represent the dark side. They will attract the audience because they are very outgoing vibrant colours.

2)    The colour used throughout the text such as font ,headlines etc.is mainly black but the sub headings for each section are usually in different colours ,they are very similar to the colours on the front of the magazine. By having a subheading in a different colour to the text below it catches the readers the attention and wants them to read it because it’s out there.

Analysing the front cover of magazine 

 Image:

The main image on this magazine is of Ozzy Osbourne this image is placed in centre of this magazine it takes up about half the page. This image doesn’t look like a friendly invite to the reader, it looks very aggressive and mean. The other pictures on the cover of this magazine look very calm and invite the reader to open up the, magazine and read about it.                                          

Title:

Kerang is the name of this magazine it is named after a town in Australia, people who are interested or people whore from Australia are more likely to read this magazine.

 Subtitles:

This is magazine is based on rock music, it’s all about rock artists and rock bands. So the target audience for this magazine would be people who are interested in rock music it is usually aimed for male and female but more males would be interested in a magazine like this.

Language:

The language used throughout this text is quite formal, it is not really emotive but it does grab the reader’s attention, once they read the sub heading they would want to carry on reading the rest of the article.

Colour:

The colours used on the front cover of the kerang magazine are red yellow black. The red is used to represent anger and violence this relates to the image which is of Ozzy Osbourne, as you can see in the picture he looks very angry. The colour yellow is a very bright colour representing new ideas and the colour black is a very mysterious colour. This shows us that reader is quite mysterious but has very bright ideas. This magazine creates a very gloomy atmosphere

Price:

The target audience ages is based between 18-25 the price for the magazine is £2.25, so it’s a great price.

Analysing the double page article of a magazine

The theme throughout the article is rock, from rock artist to rock bands and their.  This double page article is about ozzy osbourne, osbourne is a rock artist or as some may say ‘rock guru’ this article relates to the front cover of the magazine. The magazines main coverline “through the keyhole” this is suggesting what is on the other side of the door, this article is about Ozzys’ study room also known as the ‘The Bunker , its telling us about all the interesting things he’s got in there by doing this it makes the reader feel like they know him a lot more and they can relate with him.it would make them feel like as if they are a friend for knowing a lot of information about him from what he’s interested in and what he’s not interested in. one of the items he has in his study is a picture of him and Paul McCartney from the Beatles, he also tells us why he has it, when he first heard the Beatles he said “it blew my head off. I’ve never stopped loving the Beatles since”. This is telling us how much he loves the Beatles and how much they actually mean to him. Another item he has in his study is History books who would have ever thought Ozzy the rock star is interested in history, he tells us, “I’m very into world war two, I’ve got thousands of books on it, this shows us how passionate he is although he is “dyslexic “he like to “to get stuck into stuff” in a sense once he has read something he wants to carry on or learn more about that topic. He's also showing us although your dyslexic you can do so much.

  Analysing the editors letter

The editor’s letter is a very informal piece of text, he has written this letter as if he is just messaging a friend, by doing this he makes the reader feel more comfortable reading this. There is a picture of the editor on this magazine this makes the reader relate more to text also they get an inside on who has written this magazine and to let them know this person is real.