"KERRANG!" Front Cover Analysis

• Black-on-white masthead. This makes it stand out and extremely easy to read. The font is easily recognisable as the KERRANG! Trademark.
• Front cover picture overlaps the masthead. This is popular with many magazines in general, not just music magazines.
• A puff advertising free items, making the magazine more desirable.
• Competitions boost reading as people would want to go to Barbados but may lack funds, so would buy the magazine in order to enter.
• The celebrity, in this case Hayley Williams, is making eye contact with the camera in order to create a link with the reader making it seem more personal.
• Left side third displaying magazine contents. Text font Fits in with other taxt on the cover, as well as the colour scheme.
• Main headline is the band’s name. This draws in potential readers as the band’s fans would want to read the article, so, by making the band’s name the main headline, readers automatically know what the main attraction is for this issue. Features a strap line to give the reader an idea to what the article is about. Because it states that this article is exclusive, makes the magazine seem more desirable as there won’t be any other interviews like this one.
• Banners at both the top and the bottom to give the reader an idea of what else is in that particular issue of the magazine. The white-on-red text fits into the colour scheme, which is kept at 4 colours; black, white, red and yellow.