Research and Planning - Analysis of Music magazine front covers - Classic Rock

Classic rock magazine is a music magazine which is published by future publishing, the same company also publish metal hammer magazine.

This magazine has been constructed to appeal to a predominantly male audience, to be more specific males in there twenties are the main buyer of this magazine.

The use of the big central image as the background appeals to the target audience because the picture is a famous musician which has an exclusive story attached to it, therefore it makes the reader want to find out the rest of the story and buy it.

The cover lines have been constructed to appeal to the target audience because they consist of a couple of big fonted “buzz” words, which relate to big genres of music and because there familiar to the reader they make the reader want to buy the magazine to find out more.

The mis-en-scene also contributes to the construction because the magazine’s background colours are black and white, these colours are associated with individualism and the target audience (males), therefore making the visual aspects more pleasurable.

The font stands out because the majority of writing is in black capitals, this helps to grab the potential audiences attention.

The house style appeals to the target audience because it’s distinguished and therefore potential buyers are familiar with it, the use of font and the wording “classic” makes the magazine appear older than it is to fit in with the genre of music.

The mode of address is informal, this helps to attract the target audience because younger generations are more impatient and this helps save time when looking to buy magazines, this includes abbreviations of names and bands, e.g -  "Machine guns, Lsd and avatolla axl".