MAIN TASK: Magazine Research

The first magazine that I am analysing is Kerrang (issue no. 1132).
The magazine is targeted at a Radical Hedonistic audience, this can be portrayed throught the sign produced by the Masthead. The mast head connotes violence, dammaged and boldness. The Mainsell also connotes violoence as the far left model has his fists clunched together. The magazine also offers freebies, which will appeal to their target audience because the younger generation would benefit from having posters of their favorite 'rock' band. The magazine also uses coverlines to push their information out to their market audience. The use of straplines on the left hand side allows the readers to have a brief description of what a key headline is about.

The next magazine I am looking into is BBC Music. This issue is focused at the classical music industry. It offers a freebie to its readers, which in this case is a clasical piano CD. The main target audience for BBC Music are succeeders that are traditionalists, bassed upon the Jicnars scale the audeience would be a 'B'. In this issue of BBC Music, the creator has used a puff to enhance the readers mind and to allow the readers to see the class that the music magazine has. The masthead is in a serif font as this connotes a sophisticated style, and shows the importance the clasical music industry has. The use of 'Edwardian Script ITC' connotes a interlectual approach and also a classy style. The iconic sign is used to allow the audience to see what freebie they will revieve.

The third magazine I am looking at is the January 2010 eddition of Q. The mainsell denotes a wide range of music insdustry artist posing for a camera. This may connote style, class and entertaiment. The mainsell has many artists with their hands in their pockets, this could connote a layed back approach to the music industry.