Although there were many similarities on my cover I also compared the differences:1. I've placed my inducements spread out over the cover compared to Kerrang.
2. As you can see there are two males on the cover of Kerrang portraying it's mainly targeted towards a male audience, whereas I put a female artist on the cover as well so I'm attracting both audiences equally.
3. I have a different coloured house style so that it wouldn't be too similar to Kerrang's music magazine. The colours on the Kerrang page mainly use blue to show it's more of a male dominated magazine, but the limited pink shows there are some elements within the product for female. To make sure my magazine is attracting both genders I used colour which would relate to the genre and not apply to one specific gender, by using red, black and white makes it seem more neutral.
4. The price and dateline on my cover is printed much bigger and bolder than Kerrang's showing that it's reasonably low priced.
5. Differences between the headlines on my cover and the one of the professional magazine I have focused my research on is that I've placed all my text in the left third as it's the first thing that catches my reader's attention. Whereas Kerrang have placed their text spread otu over the page, although it is clear and structured well I feel that it would be too much to cram into my product without making it look tacky.
6. The barcode is in the left third which also attracts the reader as they would get the impression it's a proficient magazine.
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