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Magazines

• Billboard! The magazine originally focused on bill posting and outdoor amusements before specializing in the music industry in the 1960s. Billboard maintains several internationally-recognized record charts, which track the most popular songs and albums across several categories on a weekly basis. Its primary charts, the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200, respectively rank the top songs and albums regardless of genre, and are based on digital downloads, radio airplay, and internet streaming. Its data is largely based on the Nielsen SoundScan tracking system, which it has used since 1991.

• The target audience of the magazine is between the age of 18 and 50.

Billboard

Cover PageMastheadThe title of the magazine is Billboard. The colors used in the logo makes it more attractive and unique for the magazine’s audience.

Color SchemeThe color scheme of the magazine’s cover page is Blue and White. The colors used in text and the blue shade on the background make the cover lively.

The artist’s name, written in a large font size, to divert the attention of the audience towards the artist.

Direct Mode of AccessThe music artist is directly looking towards the camera in order to show the importance of the magazine’s audience.

Contents PageThis section of the magazine is colored grey, in order to make it different from the other pages of the magazine.

Content page is used to show the list of the articles written in the magazine, followed by the page number.

The logo make the page more unique and lively with respect to the contents or the features.

These three images shows the variety of photos in the contents page.

Some of the main features are mentioned in order to aware the audience.

Double Spread PageSara! A 17 year old is predicted to be one of the largest artists soon. Her unique dressing style and amazing voice is all, the audience wants.

She proved the world that she can come up with some melodious pop music in the future by coming up in the billboard top charts.

Only the young girl have been focused on this page because the main article is about this girl, Sara!

Her name, Sara is the only word on the page which is colored, in order to divert the attention of the audience towards her.

A message for the audience by the rising artist, Sara.

• Kerrang! It mainly concentrates on the bands like Green Day, Lost Prophets, Slipknot kind of rock bands.

• Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, Kerrang! was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.

• The target audience of this magazine are Young & Mature Adults who are interested in Punk Rock music genre.

KERRANG!

Cover PageMastheadThe masthead is in a font that is made to look simple but strong. It creates a Rock/Metal style that is well known. Due to the font, audience would understand that this is Kerrang!

Main ImageThe main image focus on the guitarist to give the cover a classic look as it is a heavy metal special issue.

Color SchemeColor scheme of the cover page is red, white and the background is grey.

BannerThe banner is used to create more attention of the audience towards the magazine and it is also used to aware the audience that it is a Heavy Metal Special edition.

Contents PageContent page is used to show the list of the articles written in the magazine, followed by the page number.

Some of the news, feedback and features are mentioned in order to attract the audience.

The image shows that the band is giving autographs to their fans.

Each article in the contents is separated in to sections for ease of the reader, the page numbers are found in order to find an article. The cover stories also have their own labels to show importance.

Double Page Spread

The color scheme of the double page is black, white and grey.

The heavy metal band Metallica has been spotted on the page and a measure has been mentioned by the band for the audience..

The life of the band is also discussed in the article.

• Classic Rock is a music magazine which covers Classic or Old Age bands/artists like Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Pink Floyd and Aerosmith.

• Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to the radio format of classic rock, published by TeamRock, who are also responsible for its "sister" publication Metal Hammer. Although firmly focusing on key bands from the 1960s through early 1990s, it also includes articles and reviews of contemporary and upcoming artists it deems worthy of note. Despite starting as an on-off project it has become one of the UK's best selling music magazines. In September 2010 it published its 150th issue and now has a higher circulation than the NME.

• The target audience of the magazine is Mature Adults who listen to the classic rock music.

Classic Rock

Cover PageMastheadThe masthead of the magazine is Classic Rock. The font style of the masthead is simple and old, which is perfect for the old time rock music.

The artist/guitarist name has written in large font to specify his name and to catch audience’s attention.

Bar CodeBar Code is used to store product related data.

Color SchemeThe color scheme of the cover page is white, orange and grey.

Contents PageList of the articles written in the magazine.

Content page is used to show the list of the articles written in the magazine, followed by the page number.

The artist Bruce Springsteen is spotted on the page and the page number is also mentioned where his article has published.

Some of the features of the magazine are shown,

Double Page Spread

The text has written in a classic form, in a standard article format in order to give it a classic touch.

The focus of the magazine is on the artist and about his statement.

No negative space has been given because of the image.

Color scheme of the page is black, white and dark yellow.