Cover 1
This cover of a popular rock magazine "Kerrang" is a great piece for research as this product has a very similar demographic to mine and is of the same genres.
Language is used in a very expressive way with a lot of emphasis on words such as BIGGEST and EXCLUSIVE and PLUS in order to attract the audience. The fact that all of the words are written in capital letters makes the reader aware of the energetic and violent side to the music included in the magazine. Short punchy sentences are used with only brief overviews of articles and details of contents.
Institutions featured in this cover include the different artists featured in addition to Kerrang! as an institution trying to attract and audience.
Ideology is used as you need to be able to recognize artists names to know who is featured in the magazine. The reader would have to recognize what a gig was in order to understand what is featured in the magazine, and know that "Danger Days" is an album, as this is not mentioned anywhere on the cover.
Audience can be recognized by the artists on the cover, as the features give an insight into what genre the magazine is representing and the clothing on the artist on the main image represents a style of the audience, pulling in the target audience and showing other viewers whether or not the product is for them.
Representation of the audience and artists in this cover come through the costumes and colours used. The black and red colours connote a dangerous and dark genre of music, also reflected through the main article "Danger Days". The artists are all wearing dark clothing, again reflecting the dark genre of the music, and their poses connote them as being wild and dangerous with the main picture artists holding his hands like guns, and artists in the secondary images swearing.
I took these images for my magazine front cover. I tried a range of different poses and some varying angles in order to achieve an appropriate image. I chose to have a young girl from the magazine's target audience, as this will attract other young people to buy the magazine. She is wearing a batman t-shirt, which is a part of iconography which goes with the music genre and is associated with a similar target audience. I finally decided to use this image as I feel that it is the most exciting and stands out most from the other images.
