Magazine Analysis: KERRANG Double Page Spread

The choice of band is sleeping with sirens which are a typical rough, wild boy group which are reckless. This suggests that the target audience will be young men who like to have fun and are interested in boy groups that do the same.

In this article, the language used is very basic and easy to understand. This is because the audience tend to be young men who cared more for music rather than their education. It doesn’t focus on amazing grammar or punctuation it just wants to bring the important news that the readers want to read. An example of language that relies on the audience, “Kellin tweeted it was one of his ‘realist’ yet’’. This is showing that they know their audience is familiar with things like twitter and all the media sites. Also, this shows that it suits the style of the magazine which is being modern and cool with all the new media sites and gadgets.

The theme of the magazine is dark colours which presents rebellious feeling. This article follows suit and uses a darkish colour in purple. This colour has been used to make the article stand out because it isn’t used anywhere else in the magazine. They want people to know that this article is special and should be defiantly be read.

Frequently in this article, the text would include quotes and answers from the band especially Kellin. It would start with a question that they were asked and then they would show parts of how they replied. It was in some ways a brief Q&A. The font isn’t anything special to show that the audience tend to care more about what is actually being said rather than how it looks.

The double page spread is laid out where the main part of it is a picture of the band. It shows Kellin Quin on his own on one side to show that he is the band leader. The text is positioned around the image which suggests that the image has a higher importance. Most of the pages are taking up by images. About 60% of the pages are images and the rest text.

The tone the magazine is taking is an assumption that the reader is an informed intelligent fan because the article doesn’t dive into too much detail because they expect the reader to know it already.

The images suggest that the band is playful and crazy because it shows kelling quin screaming in their ears with microphone which I imagine is very painful but they seem to be laughing it off. This shows that the band have a strong connection and know how to have a good time.

The article does require prior knowledge. For example, ‘’the latest album’’ it expects the reader to know the album as it doesn’t name the specific album in the article. The article expect the reader to know that kellin quin is the band leader because it mentions him a lot but doesn’t actually specifically say that he is the leader.