Research and Planning: Magazine Analysis (cover)

Genre: The genre of this magazine cover is alternative rock and the colours, images and text used make this clear. It's also a very masculine through the colours used and the type of language displayed on this, the first page the audience will see.

Target Audience

Age: I believe the main ages this magazine is targeted at is between 16-25
Gender: Due to the language, images and colours used on the front cover the target audience is generally males
Occupation: Most of the target audience are likely to be students although some may have left education and be working
Class: This magazine is aimed at working - middle class people because of the type of music that the magazine is based upon
Interests: The target audience is obviously going to be interested in music, because it's a music magazine, but more specifically older music and new music. They're also going to be interested in gigs, this is evident as one of the magazines stories is 'on tour with Coldplay'

Layout

The layout of this front cover is eye catching and busy, there's one main image (guy with the guitar) which takes up the majority of the page and then a smaller picture in the bottom right which occumpanies a story also situated in the bottom right hand corner '200 Things You Didn't Know About The Beatles'. The main story is a lot bigger than all the other text on the front cover and stands out well. The page is well set out and doesn't look too cluttered but also doesn't leave to much space.