textual analysis

Kerrang is a world wide renound magazine for metal and rock music...  As you can see the mast head ' Kerrang' is as if it is the noise from the guitar strings. Also it looks as if it is glass which has been shattered. Also the biggest headline on the page is roughly the same size as the mast head, this is used, to advertise the content a lot better than having little headlines... added to the main headline, is an image of the band which takes up most of the magazine. this is really effective in advertising, as they do this every week of the most popular bands or albums out to the public, or some new material from bands. The cover has many headlines as it has a lot to offer. It uses advertising to persuade the reader to buy it, it shows that it has free posters, which also make the reader want to buy it. Kerrang have placed the image of '30 seconds to mars' right in the middle of the page, they have overlapped the title as they are well known enough to do this.
          Quite often Kerrang magazine has a dark background to fit the stereotypical style of 'metal' and 'emo'.... this is only because the content in the magazine is put in for that style of audience.