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Typography – The fonts that are used on this ‘Kerrang’ magazine are big and bold. This is used because it catches the reader’s attention, and wants them to read about it. Layout – The layout is a bit cluttered on this magazine, but you are still able to see everything that’s essential. However, the writing over laps the main picture which isn’t neat. The route of the eye ‘z’ works well on this because you see the offer and tittle and main news all together. Language – The language that is used on this magazine cover is standard English, no big words or phrases, so most audiences will be able to read this as they understand it all. Colour – The colour of this magazine is just three colours, Black, Red and Yellow, which all stand out to each other. The colours go with the genre of the magazine because for example, its very ‘rock’ so the red on this magazine creates and evil, or danger colour. Camerawork – The camera work of this magazine is a mid close, group shot which shows they are a band. Also the mid shot shows just there torso and face’s, showing there facially expressions, which seem quite depressing which goes with the genre of the magazine. Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of

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Typography – The fonts that are used on this ‘Kerrang’ magazine are big and bold. This is used because it catches the reader’s attention, and wants them to read about it.Layout – The layout is a bit cluttered on this magazine, but you are still able to see everything that’s essential. However, the writing over laps the main picture which isn’t neat. The route of the eye ‘z’ works well on this because you see the offer and tittle and main news all together.Language – The language that is used on this magazine cover is standard English, no big words or phrases, so most audiences will be able to read this as they understand it all.Colour – The colour of this magazine is just three colours, Black, Red and Yellow, which all stand out to each other. The colours go with the genre of the magazine because for example, its very ‘rock’ so the red on this magazine creates and evil, or danger colour.Camerawork – The camera work of this magazine is a mid close, group shot which shows they are a band. Also the mid shot shows just there torso and face’s, showing there facially expressions, which seem quite depressing which goes with the genre of the magazine. Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of this magazine cover is very suiting for the genre. They have black outfits on which again, because its dark, goes with the ‘rock’ feel to the magazine.Mode of address – The magazine tries to interact with the audience by putting words like ‘free’ onto it, because they will want to buy it because it has special items. It as phrases ‘life is loud’ which shows the genre of the magazine because we stereotype rock with being loud and wild.

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Typography – There are many fonts used on this ‘Revolver’ magazine, using big bold writing, and italic writing. The ‘Slipknot’ in the corner, the font used for that represents the genre of ‘rock’ very well.Layout – The layout of this ‘Revolver’ magazine is ordered, but doesn’t have a route of the eye, meaning the reader misses a lot of infromation. However, with the main picture being a model with a gun in her hand, relating to the magazine name, will attract a lot of male readers, because she is attractive and wearing little clothes.Language – The language used on the ‘Revolver’ magazine cover is very genre suited because of ‘hard rock’ and ‘destruction’ signfies the meaning of what is being explained.Colour – The colour of thismagazine cover is very much near the same as ‘Kerrang’ front cover because its contains ‘rock’ colours such as red, black, and grey. Which is dark and with the bright colours such as the red is used to locate the main information on the cover.Camerawork – The camera work of this magazine cover is a far shot showing all of the model. This is done because it will attract all of the readers, because a male wouldn’t be so attracted to the magazine if it just showed her face, and not her whole body.Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene used on this front cover really matches the magazine genre and name. With the name being ‘Revolver’ which is a gun, the props they have provided the model, which is a gun suits this. Mode of address – The magazine tries to interact with the reader by signifying the main information with large writing so attracts the readers to the magazine, and makes them want to buy it.

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Typography – The typography of this ‘Kerrang’ front cover is bold, like most magazine covers, because this stands out and attracts the readers attention because they catch a word, or something they like and want to read on.Layout – The layout of this magazine cover is ordered and the use of the route of the eye is essential on this cover, because you see the title, and the banner, then the main story and all of the other stories the magazine contains. Also, with the main picture you can see there main features.Language – The language used on this magazine cover is very powering, because with words like ‘uproar’ and ‘storm’ is exaggeration to what it actually is, so interests the reader.Colour – The colour of this magazine cover, is very similar to all of the other rock magazines that are out because they are very coordinated, with black being the base colour then white and red to signify the main information.Camerawork – The camera work is mainly to show who they are, with a wide shot, showing the whole of the band. The bottom three pictures are to show them performing, all showing there ‘rockstars’. Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of this magazine cover is very stereotypical for a rock magazine, with the dark clothing and a tattoo all over the mans hands. Also, the microphones suggest there doing a concert.Mode of address – The magazine cover tries to speak to you with the aggressive appearance, so will attract heavy rock readers, and will buy the magazine.

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Typography – The fonts used on this contents are similar to those used on the front cover, because they are bold, but this time just less spread out and there is a certain section where the font is a bit less straight and more smooth.Layout – The layout in this contents is much more ordered because the main picture has no writing overlapping it and is kept clear. Also, the writing around the side of the picture and on top is very neat because it has page numbers and loads of sub-headings.Language – The language in this contents page is very ‘punking’ because it has a lot of words such as ‘chaos’ which signifies its meaning.Colour – The colour code on this contents page is the same as the title page which is very good because it shows professionalism because it is ordered. I believe Kerrang have done this because it keeps it simple, but still looks good and suits the genre.Camerawork – The camera work of this magazine contents page has a variety because there are several pictures, however, the main picture is a close shot, signifying certain features, with his long hair, grown beard and tattoo on the neck, its matches the genre of the magazine. Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene in this contents page is used very much. For example the picture at the bottom on the left is named ‘Lamb of god’ and he is singing and the microphone is used to show this off and also he dark clothing and black hair shows the amount of mise-en-scene which is used a lot through the magazine.Mode of address – The magazine contents page speaks to the audience with loads of captions showing ‘snip its’ of the stories that are able to be read in the magazine and with sub headings such as ‘The king blues’ you want to read on more about it, because ‘king’ shows how good he is.

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Typography – The typography of this contents page is simple, and doesn’t have much range of fonts, though the colour code is the main feature for the font as this is the colour for every issue, which is there unique house style, so the magazine in recognized.Layout – The layout of this magazine contents page, is very ordered, but also has its own style, because a lot of contents pages have just the main information down in a straight line, however, with this set up, it will attract readers.Language – The language used on this contents page, suits the genre of the magazine because with words such as ‘die’ and ‘fear’ it gives the reader the aggression side of the magazine.Colour – The colour of this magazine contents page is the same as all ‘Kerrang’ magazines, because with the dark colour’s being the base and white and yellow the main colour to show important features, everybody will recognize the house style, with ‘Kerrang’.Camerawork – The camerawork of this contents magazine is a wide shot a ‘mosh pit’ which is very related to rock music, also the rock star is being lifted across showing they are uncontrolled and just do what they want.Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of this contents page is mainly showing the clothing and props that are used, for example the dark clothing, giving more of a rock feel, and the microphone and mosh pits also signifying they are at a concert.Mode of address – This magazine contents page speaks to its audience, because of its wild and careless behavior shown, which will relate to most teenagers and young adults because they dream of things like this.

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Typography – The typography of this metal hammer magazine contents page is very gothic. The curling font and dripping words, the gives the reader an evil feeling, suiting the genre of the magazine.Layout – The layout of this contents page Is different to most, because it’s a bit like a normal article page and is maybe a bit more cluttered than ordered.Colour – The colour of this magazine is like most rock magazines, though this one contains a lot more red. Connotations of red are associates red with being the colour of blood, and evil. Because of this the colour matches the genre perfectly.Language – The language to this contents page is, again, like all other rock magazine with the aggressive words ‘death’ representing what the magazine will be like.Camerawork – The camerawork of the photos on this contents page are mainly two shots and wide shots, because they want to show who is in the magazine, if someone see’s a band they like then they will buy it and read it.Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of this contents page is the dark outfits, with ‘punky’ designs on them showing rock. Also, the poses that the people in the picture are doing are suited to the genre, with the two fingers, on the bottom finger, we stereotype this with rock. Mode of address – The mode of address to this magazine contents page is very evil and intimidating with the dark colours and droopy haunted like writing. The readers will buy this if there hard-core rock fans.

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Typography – The typography in this double page spread is only one font which is big and bold like all of the other pages. There is a kicker in the article which makes the reader want to read about it because it catches there eye.Layout- The layout of magazine is very ordered, because with one page having the main picture and the second page having the whole article and bit more information. I believe that this is good because it makes the reader want to read because they can see it all, and it attracts them.Language – The language is like the front cover of the ‘Kerrang’ magazine, it is very standard with no ‘over the top’ language that a less educated person will struggle to understand, so most audiences can buy it.Colour – The colour of this double page spread is very dark, even the pictures have had all the colour been taken out of them. There is red included which stands out, but the colour suits the genre well because rock is associated with dark and evil colours.Camerawork – Camerwork to this double page spread of a ‘Kerrang’ magazine is mainly just mid-close shots and close –ups. This is good because it shows the emotion of the person featured in the photo, and rock singers and artists are usually known to show emotion in there performances such as anger.Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene on this double page spread is used a lot, because there is a lot of rock associated props and costumes. For example the microphone shows the singing, and the card around the mans neck with a skull on suits the genre. Also the recording studio shows music is being produced.Mode of address – This double page spread speaks to the reader with quotations from the band. ‘were being the best mcr we can be’ This makes the audience want to know what extra they are doing to make this happen so wish to read on.

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Typography – The fonts that are used are like what you would expect to find on a road sign, which usually shows key information you need to know, so with this font used, people will read into it.Layout – The layout of this double page spread is ordered, with the bands name taking up most of the first page, and the quote that will attract readers, the second page is the article.Language – The language used on this double page spread is a little less aggressive than the other’s which shows a calmer, however, still rocky enough to attract rock music fans.Colour – There isn't a colour code on this double page spread, which there usually is in other magazines, but there are still the odd bit of coding, such as the red kicker, showing the start of the article. Camerawork – the camerawork of this double page spread is a wide shot showing the whole band with the camera looking up at them and one of them pointing to us, showing they are powerful.Mise-en-scene – The mise-en-scene of this magazine double page spread is a scruffy sort of look, which is a lot less intimidating than most of the other rock magazines. With the scene that there at and the clothes, it seems a little more indie than rock.Mode of address – The double page spread speaks to the audience mainly with the band leader pointing his finger out to us, which attracts the reader to see why he is pointing towards the camera as though it has something to do with ourselves.

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Typography – The typography of this double page spread is a mixture of bold, but also a haunted sort of font. The haunted looking font, which is coloured red, makes it look evil and like a bit of blood.Format – The format of this double page spread is ordered, with the picture taking up the whole of the first page and the article the second. This is good because it attracts readers because it is tidy, and easy to approach.Colour – The colour of this double page spread is mainly white and red, with the person pictured the only one having a different colour, black. With the white and red, the clash, so stand out to each other, which is good because the reader will read them as it appeals to them. Also, the red is a colour associated with evil, showing the genre of the magazine.Language – The language used in this double page spread is used to pull readers in. With the title using onomatopoeia this is catchy, but also with the bottom quotes ‘I lived in a house that matthew Hopkins witchfinder used to stay in’ shows that the person mentioned is famous and is a well-known magazine to contain this information. Camerawork – The camerawork of this magazine double page spread is a mid-shot showing the torso upwards of the person featured, this is to show who he is, what he is wearing, which matches the genre and also his emotions, which are very ‘rocky’Mise-en-scene - There isn’t much mise-en-scene used in this double page however from what there is used, which is the dark clothing and the persons make up, makes the genre of the magazine stand out.Mode of address – The magazine tries to connect with its readers with its rocky feeling but also by quoting the main things a rockstar has said, making us feel that we need to know it, therefore buy the magazine.