Terroriser Magazine Research

This is a Death Metal magazine, this is the type of magazine that I want to create but the audience to this magazine is reletivly small compaired to that of Kerrang or Rolling Stone. I reailse that to make a music magazine aimed at my specific audience I also need to make it appealing to some other people. This magazine had a price of £3.99

-Usually a dark background with a colored title starting in the left thid and working its way across the page. The colour and place of the title often changes and that is something that I like about this magazine, the cover always looks different for every issue not all magazines do this.

-They use varried images for their front cover, from people to cartoon images to album covers and that is again something that many magazine don't do but it something unusal that I like and think that it works well. If the front cover had the same lay out for every issue I would of lost intrest and so would many others.

-The title of the magazine very rarely appears with a date next to it and they tend to have all of the coverlines down the left third were they are going to be most noticeable. This is an appealing idea and I like having the image spread over the rest of the cover with cover lines, bar code ect positioned around the image so that everything look equally balanced.
-The skyline of the magazine often has incerts of pictures are usually advertises a free CD complete with the magazine, I think that this is something that I would like to put on my magazine because it will attrackt the attention of the readers and also encourage people to listen to the music if they are buying a magazine with a free CD.
These are the 3 covers that caught my attention and I can see myself using ideas from and I have come up with a few of my own ideas based on this magazine.


March 21st 2011 Issue



July 13th 2010 Issue

June 14th 2011 Issue

-I have not be able to find a cover for this magazine with a female on it which is something that I am rather annoyed about. I want to creat a magazine similar to this but as I said when analysing the cover for Rolling Stone I want to have a female on the front cover. I have no idea what the target audience will be looking for when it comes to a woman on the front cover of this genre of magazine. Something Dark and quite heavy is what im thinking of but at the same time I like the elegence of the Rolling Stone cover with Amy Winehouse and the whole upper body shot. However im not sure that this is something that would work with this style so I think im going to have to experiment with my photoshoot.
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