2. - I have decided to use KERRANG!
magazine for my research. I have chosen
this magazine because I think it is very
successful and it suits the genre of my
magazine, Rock.
- KERRANG! is a magazine which is
published monthly in the United Kingdom.
Its first issue was in June 6, 1981 and its
publisher is Bauer Media Group. The
language is English and since June 2007 it
has had a circulation of 130,179.
- I found this magazine very appealing
towards what I was hoping to make with
my magazine.

3.  The next magazine I looked
at was Rolling Stones this is a
more established Magazine
than KERRANG! dealing in a
more broad music category
from hip hop to Rock to
politics.
 The magazine was known
for its political coverage
beginning in the 1970s, with
the enigmatic and
controversial journalist
Hunter S. Thompson. Rolling
Stone magazine changed
its format in the 1990s to
appeal to younger
readers, often focusing on
young television or film
actors and pop music.

4.  Bauer media group, a
large German
publishing company
based in Hamburg
was founded in 1875
and has been
privately owned and
under management
by the Bauer family.
Bauer also operates in
15 countries
worldwide. They are
known for publishing
KERRANG! And Q

5.  Wenner Media group is
owned by Jann Wenner, is
an American publishing
company, Jann Wenner
founded it in 1967 in San
Francisco. They are known
for publishing Rolling
Stones, Men’s Journal and
US weekly.
 The magazine went
weekly in 2000 it now
reaches over 11 million
readers a week.

6.  Strong eye –
catching images
 Clear Masthead
 Colour
Coordinated
 Strapline
 Barcode
 Celebrity
endorsement
 Promotional

7. Masthead
Spread
across page
Model in the
centre
Promotional
Barcode

8. Strapline
sums up
what the
magazine Strong Image to
is about attract
audience. This
Big Bold shows what
Masthead type of
Spread Rock, and to
across the show who is the
page. main focus of
my magazine
Name of band
Bold Stands
out.
Used to
Tagline to
promote my
give
magazine
audience
an insight
into who’s

9. Editors note. I think
it’s very important to
have this in a
magazine, because
if the editor speaks An image of the
to them it gives an Magazine cover. I
insight into what’s
happened in the
used this because
industry. This is a it is a clearly
recognisable recognisable trait
codes and that all magazines
conventions that use.
they all use.
Image of who is in the
Link to the magazine. It is there
“fansite” of the to show who is the
magazine. I used main focus in this
this to get
audience
issue.
involved with the
magazine by
going onto the
facebook page

10. A Quote from the
Picture on interview, Big and
the left bold. I used this
codes and for effect and to
conventions. show the nature
of this band.
Masthead, Co
des and
conventions
Questions in a different
colour to help readers Models wear rock
differentiate between inspired clothing to
questions and answers match the genre of
the magazine

11.  The target Audience for my
music magazine are, Males age
18-20 who have general interest
in rock and who have an interest
in the rock industry and want to
find out the latest news on rock
in general. This magazine is
aimed at rebellious middle class
white teenagers.
 I hope to reach that target
audience by using dark colours
such as red and black which I
have used in my colour scheme.
Also by having promotional
things in my magazine such as
posters.

12. I asked my colleagues
what they had thought of
my products while they
said that the Front cover
was good and the
Double page
spread, they thought that
the one I had originally
done(right) did not have
enough writing and
looked simplistic so I
changed it, and followed
codes and conventions
Improvements

13. Improvements

14. Improvements

15.  The institute that would publish
my product would be the
BAUER Media group, because
my music magazine is based
around rock so, having BAUER
publish my magazine would
be really good for reaching
towards my target audience
because it would probably be
promoted by big magazine
such as KERRANG!. Because
they publish rock magazine
they would probably the best
institute for publishing my
magazine.

16.  I had no experience on how to use either programs Adobe
Photoshop and Indesign, because I had no never had any
experience with it because none of my subjects in GCSE
involved Indesign, so this was new territory.
 I have learnt that Indesign is very useful when making a
magazine. Indesign has helped me a lot when making my
magazine, and without it would have been harder to make
my magazine.
 I have also used Photoshop to alter my images and improve
the quality of my photographs, it has been useful because I
would make whatever I needed for indesign on photoshop
and drag it onto Indesign