FRONT COVERThe front cover of this magazine is very unorganized and it looks unprofessional.
There is a band of 4 people who are photographed as a wide shot, and there is a wide shot photograph of another artist on the background with an arm blended over the two images. This is very confusing for the reader as it is not very obvious which person belongs to who.
The quality of the image of the band is much higher than the quality of the picture behind them, which drops the quality of the front cover too, as it looks unprofessional.
Also the images of the artists are all small, they cover only half of the page which isn't the norm as the cover model should be covering the whole page, maybe even the masthead.
Apart from the masthead, the images make the genre of this magazine the most obvious. An arm with a metal wristband, the make up of the single artist and the fact that he is carrying an electronic guitar states that this magazine is a rock magazine.
The masthead 'Solid(metal) (heavy)Rock' which is read as Solid Rock when talking about this magazine, is the biggest writing on the cover which states that that is the most important factor. Because the words 'metal' and 'heavy' are not very important, they are written in a dark colour which is not comfortably readable, yet the words 'Solid Rock' are very obvious and outstanding. The first place the customers eyes would go is the masthead, which is very important.
At first sight the cover lines look very unorganized, as there is 'Kiss' and 'Dave Lee Roth' are written across the page, which randomly coloured teasers in different fonts above it. But when you pay attention to the structure of the front cover, it is seen that 'Kiss' and 'Dave Lee Roth' are written next to the artists with that name. This could have done neater or there isn't even need for it, as it looks very unprofessional and unorganised.
The colour used the most on the frontcover is yellow, which is suppressed by the yellow sides of the line and the big yellow written masthead. If the cover would have been organised better, this would have drawn the public's attention, but there are too many colours used on the front cover which is seen in the background and masthead.
According to the front cover, the contents page of this magazine is very basic and clean. Everything is neatly organised and put in place, except for the page numbers which are not written in order. The contents page does not contain any images which reflects the fact that this is an old magazine as most of the magazines I have crowded front covers but calm contents pages.
All the fonts and font sizes are the same on this page which makes it, again, neat and organised. Also the title's of the pages have a clear description with what the reader should expect from the article.
This double page spread is also very simple and neat. The only colours used are black, white and the image which containt red lightning. The journalism is in 4 columns with journalism written in first person which is inviting to the audience. The whole page contains journalism about Deff Leppard, which is a rock band. The way they have dressed and their hair is made up shows that this magazine is about rock. Also the dark colours used show easily the genre of this magazine.
MEDIA KIT
Weirdly enough there is no information on the internet about this magazine, therefore I couldn't find a media kit.
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