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In this magazine, they use a very in your face technique to draw in the audiences attention and get them to start reading their magazine. The things that are put in this to achieve their goals are the large titles and also the colours that are used.
Firstly, the titles they use are in a bold font to stand out from the rest of the magazine to show off staright away what the magazine will be featuring. This means that where it says 'Beats' and 'Bass' you would asume that the conitations of this would be that of a electronic music magazine, because these are words that are associated with that genre. Another thing about the titles is that they are of a completely different colour to the background and there is no similarity between them. This makes it alot easier to read from a distance which means they have a better chance of attracting an audience.

Secondly in this front cover, i would like to point out the simplicity of this cover. Usually there seems to be a lot going on, on front covers because they are trying as many ways as they can to get your attention. But sometimes in this case simplicity can be the main aspect of a front over and can work even better. This is because if there is too many things going on, it can draw the readers attention away from certain parts of the front cover, parts that you may want them to see. Therefore staying simple can be a postive thing.

 

Here on the left is another example of a magazine similar to the type i am creating. Aswell as it being a music magazine, it also has a similar style of music to the 'rock' genre. The first technique that I would like to point out would be the fact that the main image of the featured band 'Avenged Sevenfold' has been placed over the main title 'Kerrang'.

Some other features about the front cover of this magazine would be the fact that although the main focus is on the featured band, there is still alternate information about what is expected to be found inside the magazine. This information would be shown in the pugs and puffs, and also in taglines which can be found at the top and bottom of the front cover.

 

This magazine which also has a simliar genre to the previous one, shares some of its features which make the magazine work well in this genre. For example again they use the overlapping image and also the extra information about what will be seen inside the magainze.