Research and Planning; Analysis of music magazine.

• Audience- The audience for this magazine would be female and male, aged between 20-40 years old this would be the primary audience, people who possibly be interested in the latest music and like to go to gigs and tours also enjoy listening to new and old music. The secondary audience may be above aged between 17-20 who may be well educated interested in playing an instrument and news in the music industry. The reasons for choosing this audience would be because the magazine selling price is rather expensive and young students may not want to or afford to pay this amount.
• Representation- The medium long shot of a solo artist 'Lady GAGA' is represented on the front cover, she is a well known artist world wide which will grab attention. She is placed center frame so she's the main focus on the front cover, she's looking seductive in a way targeting the males to the music magazine.
• Genre- The genre of this music magazine would be pop-rock/indie, you can see this by the artists used, and the colours used around the page ; grey's,blacks and whites, these colours represent the genre too, as they are dark, similar to the music in a way.
• Layout- The layout of the front cover is quite simple and not overloaded with too much information to put the reader off. The masthead, located on the top left hand side of the cover stand's out and is simple and has a bold font representing the audience in some way; targeting a sophisticated and older generation therefore not too complicated. The stories chosen represent it's a music magazine too. This cover follows the conventions of other music magazine as it includes bar-code, photograph, Masthead, stories, main story.
• Media Language- The photograph is a medium long shot, this may have been took to show her outfit and her facial expression. The colours of the magazine may have been chosen by the colour of the props on the photo; black's and white. Her prop doesn't look so innocent and looks unusual representing the genre of rock and how different the artist is too. Her hair and make up stands out and looks creative.
• Socio-economic groupings- This magazine would be targeted at groupings of b and C1 which are teachers who are semi-professionals who attended college and university and skilled workers , it also may attract C2 group who are semi skilled workers such as plumbers who attended college.
  
• Audience- The audience would be aimed at a younger generation aged 16-25, aiming at both genders however attracting more females, I feel this due to the choice of male photo's on the front cover and also colours which are quite feminine ; pink,yellow.
• Representation- The main photograph centre frame is a medium long shot, this is located centre frame again to grab the readers attention. You can tell the photo represents the music for this magazine by the way he's dressed and his hair and make up is quite dark blacks,grey.
• Genre- Kerang is a rock music magazine.
• Layout- The masthead located across the top of the cover, the use of black bold font with a sharp edge, the font also has a 'broken mirror' affect, this links to the slug line 'life is loud' representing the genre of this magazine. The three colours; pink,black and yellow stick out during the magazine even tho how hectic the page is with different stories and photographs, this represents the genre of the magazine and music how its not clean and crisp but the opposite and also how different the layout can represent the age of the audience.
• media Language- The cinematography on this front cover is used well, on the main photograph is a medium long shot, this hasn't being used for any other photos surrounding it, there for this photograph is exposed mostly showing the reader he's part of the main story or is in focus the most. The photo's surrounding this one are close up and mid shots to show their expression and represent bigger photo's of them will be inside the magazine it's self.
• Socio-Economic groupings- would be E-students, D- unskilled workers for example grocery worker who didn't need to attend college or university for their job, also group C- semi-skilled workers who had attended college for their job. I have chosen these groups as the magazine is not expensive to buy there for these groups would interested in buying this magazine rather than an expensive one.