Brief analysis of audience for a magazine

The magazine cover I have chosen to do my analysis on is Kerrang. The type of audience that will read this magazine are the people who listen to rock music. The reason we know this is because Kerrang is also a rock channel as well as a magazine, also the cover has the band ‘Greenday’ who are a rock band as their main image.  Also other people who may read the magazine are Marilyn Manson fans this is due to the picture on the cover which will attract them in.  People who enjoy live rock music may also read this magazine as it give you certain band and singer names on the cover that you can listen to live at a gig or festival.

 Throughout the magazine text selling is used, one way the magazine uses this technique is by writing ’25 rock stars who changed your world’ this is making the reader buy the magazine to read this section,  once they have read that piece they will want to listen to the bands/artists mentioned; meaning the magazine has sold that band/artist. Also the information on festivals will make the reader informed about them and want to buy tickets to go to that festival.

The attitude to the magazine is the heavy rock lifestyle this is due  to the bands/artists on the front cover also the word ‘chaos’ implies the type of hectic rock lifestyle.

Media

For my media coursework i have chosen to do a music magazine in the style of NME magazine, I am going to base my magazine around the genre indierock as this is the type of music i like and listen to so will enjoy designing my magazine.