The above music magazine cover is Kerrang displaying Biffy Clyro as the main article and artist. From looking at the main image, the music magazine is aimed at teens who are into rock. This particular artist specialises in christian rock and composes most songs on christian beliefs. This indicates that there is a specific audience who the band is aimed at. Obviously, lots of non-religious people listen to the band. The main image adds to the teen audience idea because the lead singer is topless shouting, this doe not compliment the older age group of 40+ because at that age, society becomes mature and sees young things as immature and disrespectful. the younger tagerget audience will aspire to this as they are in thier wild, young years where they go to parties, get drunk and listen to music. The main image of Biffy Clyro represents this.
The left third feature of the any magazine is to identify the main articles, features and even ocasional free items which are given out within particular issues. In this instance, the issue is handing out 10 signed posters. This is a big give away and will attract many readers who follow the band and similar artists to enable them to collect the freebie.
The coverline is perhaps one of the first things readers will look at, this is because is it the main size as the masthead and is it in yellow text, meaning that is stands out more with the blue background. Coverlines as used to display main artists and bands that the magazine is based around, in this case, Kerrang magazine is focusing on Biffy Clyro and an interview with them.
The colour scheme of the magazine containes may bright colour such as blue, and yellow to represent youth and young readers, older readers would be represented with perhaps purple, dark blue and brown. The colour scheme is imaprtant to the magazine as is can reflect who it is aimed at; in this case under 40's.
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