Monday 24 January 2011

Features Articles Analysis - Kerrang!


Like the NME article, this features article also has the accent colour of blue. It has shapes with a crackly, blue fill as does the front cover.
Like NME, the image takes up most of of the two page spread. The image is black and white. The man has his arms crossed with a serious expression on his face. He is at an angle with his face facing the camera. This expression and position conveys a person who is serious about something, i.e. he is going to 'carry on until he drops'.
The heading 'I'M GONNA CARRY ON TILL I DROP!" is a mixture of different sized text to accentuate the words 'carry on' and 'drop' - as these are the most important words. As well as different sizes, different colours (blue and black) are also used to distinguish between the importance of the words.
A blue text box, at an angle, has been placed over the image with the text "MUSIC'S MY DRUG NOW". This quote has been picked out specifically because it is shocking and could be seen as quite obscure. This grabs the reader's interest, and so they want to read the article.
Under the main heading there is an introduction to the article which uses different typography. The font is like a typewriter, very basic and not elegant at all - rock music is not elegant.
Amongst the two columns of text is another text box with two black headings, "THE HIGHLIGHT" and "THE LOWLIGHT". This offers extra information for the reader to read quickly without having to read the whole article.
At the bottom right of the page is the magazine name followed by a page number.  The colour behind this is black and the typography is white in order to stand out and follow the colour scheme.