The cover of this music magazine is aimed at a unisex target audience approximately between the ages of 12 and 30. The red and black color scheme appeals to a slightly more concentrated audience of the music genre, 'rockers'. Although this cover contains many subtitles along with eye-catching smaller pictures of bands etc, it does primarily focus on the main band in medium focus, Biffy Clyro.
The title of the magazine, ' Kerrang' is made to stand out due to the fact it is printed in bold black text, contrasting against a white background.
Another key feature to this piece in to which would obviously draw attention is the red banner scrolling along the top of the page which instantly is a massive eye-catcher with the words 'free' and 'ticket'.
A list of bands at the bottom of the page is also a winner for the magazine due to the fact that they've instantly grabbed the attention of any fans of those particular bands which of course changes every issue. The probability of a band fanatic buying the issue just to read about their band is highly promising for the magazine.
This magazine appears to be aimed at a target audience of people who are interested in surfing and/or people who surf themselves. The age range of the target audience probably varies from about 8 to 50. Noticeably green, blue and white are a fitting theme with this magazine, evidently linking with the title, 'surfing'. This is because a broken wave or 'white wash' is white and the sea is either green or blue/grey.
Like the above music magazine, this cover contains a bold title in which contrasts it's background and furthermore draws attention to itself.
Unlike the above cover, this magazine's background is of the subject again, however, the focus is much less. This allows the audience to really obtain the ability to be drawn in to the magazine instantly and has to perhaps look harder/closer.
Smaller subheadings attract attention of the target audience with questions for example , ' Where did Pipeline go?' This has the effect of making the reader feel as though he should give his point of view or as if it actually matters. Although it is a slight generalization, the fact that people who surf seem to care about the environment more has clearly been taken into consideration with this magazine. Evidence for this is a noticeable subheading - 'The green issue'. This implies that in fact buying this issue is doing justice for the environment. Likewise with the subheading - ' Easy ways to save our surf', written up at the top.
This magazine is most likely to be aimed at a target audience of females with ages ranging between roughly 25 and 60 with the strong likely hood of a number of homosexual readers. The cover of the magazine concentrates on a young to middle - age woman in medium close up. The color scheme for the piece is red black and white. These three colors are significant as they would appeal very classy and would attract the attention of the designed target audience.
'Vogue', which is the original title of the magazine, in itself means 'the popular taste at a given time'.
Smaller subtitles appeal to the target audience due to the fact that middle - aged woman are extremely focused on looking younger. Hence why the subheading ' 34 ways to save your skin' is suitably appealing. Many magazine covers use subheadings in which claim to have the ability to help the reader in some way, by 'saving' for example, draw immediate attention of the specific target audience which is why this is fitting for this case of helping woman save their skin in not just one, but '34' ways.
Another technique used in the above cover to draw attention is the way that the word 'exclusive' is underlined , alerting the person contemplating the purchase of the magazine that he or she should as it is an exclusive and should not be missed out on.
