The Reason for magazines

In today's lesson we learnt about the reason for magazines-they exist to be sold in order to make a profit and, also to be a direct link between the advertising companies and us the audience. we analysed a magazine cover each my group done the Rock/Heavy metal magazine called "Rock Sound". We had to comment on the strap line, who we thought the target audience would be, the main cover line and image. We had to look at all different sections of the magazine front cover and analyse them, like the banner-a strap across the top or bottom of the page showing details about the magazine and special offers. A graphic image which usually contains information on special offers. The main image which is the vocal point of any magazine and usually is looking at the user, to more involve the reader. the cover lines on the magazine-which are used to sell the magazine and of course all the legal information that the magazines have to display such as the barcode. the magazine 'Rock Sound's' main cover image is of a Young man with long black hair, tattoos that cover all of his arm from his forearm all the way to his shoulder. He is wearing black clothes which add to his menacing/rebellious attitude. He is standing with a guitar over his right shoulder, because of this pose it looks like he is about to smash the guitar. the  Masthead of this mag is is big bold lettering which is fading and has cracks in it, the way this affect is used kind of implies that the magazine is so good that the stories inside are struggling to break out.