1. Front Page Analysis

This is a front cover of a ROCK SOUND magazine.

Rock Sound is a british magazine that aims to be more "underground" rather than having more commercials on the inside of the magazine, which also provides a good coverage to well known acts. Its the UK's bet magazine for new musics that features all the styles of rock such as metal, punk, hardcore, emo, indie and darkwave. Rock Sound magazine always provides a free Sounch Check CD that features the bands you'll read.
In this cover it is aimed at teens and young adults as suggested by the use of colloquial language. I noticed that this magazine is addressed to the audience informally to make the the reader feel part of it.
The masthead of this magazine is ROCKSOUND. It is bold, big, plain, and loud. The title reflects the type of music it promotes, which is rock. Orginally, the colour of the masthead is plain white. However, in some Rock Sound magazine, the designer changes the colour to reflect the house stlye of the magazine, depending on what the main image is wearing.  
The barcode is placed on the bottom left of this magazine with the date and price and the magazine's website on the top so that people can but this magazine. In this magazine, it says that this was released on December 2010 issue 142. This issue of the magazine sold for £3.90. In my opinion I would consider the price of this magazine to be moderately cheap as Rock Sound only issues a magazine 13 times per year.
The main image of this magazine uses a long mid shot of the 5 members in the band, as it focuses on the main singer of the band, as he is the most recognisable person in the whole band. I like the effect of them having cuts on their shirts and skin which suggest a robot type to reflect to "THE FUTURE!" The cover stars in this magazine are not smiling to empahise their dark music.
The use of cover lines are used to promote the magazine so that the consumers are entice to buy it. This magazine advertises how to win a playstation 3, CD offers, page specials, posters and stickers. The use of punctuation is very effective as it helps to exaggerate the most important quotes such as "access all areas on the tour of the year!" The use of banner across the top of the front page advertises what freebies you will get and other competitions you can enter into when you buy this magazine. The use of pug, offers an interview about the MCR band which is a famous rock band in the music society.