research- magazines

I feel that magazines would be more appealing to the target that i want to reach, of teenagers and young adults. I believe that this is due to the content of magazines being very specific, meaning there would be very little in a specifically contented magazine that a person would dislike.
I also think that the layout, and more specifically the front cover is more appealing to my target audience than a newspaper is.



This can be seen through the music magazine 'The Rolling Stone' there is very little text on the front cover, the text that is on the front cover briefly describes the main story of the magazine, as well as a sentence about two other stories that appear in the magazine. This doesn't give a great deal of information, there by wanted the viewer of the magazine to read more. The photograph of Madonna for the front cover is minimalistic which may add appeal to an audience of young adults who remember Madonna in the 1980's which i suspect is when this photograph was originally taken.

Another example of a magazine that i may use as influence and one that i read myself on a weekly basis is Kerrang!



Like The Rolling Stone, Kerrang! uses a full A4 size photograph as the front cover which is an aspect of the magazine which i like however unlike The Rolling Stone,Kerrang! gives more information about the feature article in the magazine as well as information about some minor articles by adding quotes to the front cover, adding smaller photographs and mentioning other bands which accrue throughout the magazine. this is something that i wasn't to add to my own publication because i think that this is a good feature that will create interest to other aspects of magazine.
I also think that the typography that is used for Kerrang! is more relevant to the target audience, the sans serif font that is used is less formal than the serif font that is usually associated with a broadsheet newspaper. For this reason i want to use a sans serif font throught my publication because i feel that this font is more appropiate and appeals more to my target audience.

NME magazine is similar to Kerrang! and The Rolling Stone in the respect that it uses a similar style of front cover.



However it gives information about minor articles different to that of Kerrang! which are displayed in the top right hand corner of the magazine and uses no images.
All three of these magazines convey different degrees of information on the front cover and how much information that i give about the content of the publication on the front cover is something that i need to consider.