Research and Planning: Double Page Spread Analysis

Genre

The genre of music that this is layout for is a rock / metal, the double page is a review of a massive concert featuring some of rock and metal biggest bands. The pictures used, the background of all the pictures are all colored but all the colours are dark, showing it being different to most colours, which is a lot of what people who enjoy this music think about them, they are different to everyone else.

Target audience

The target for this double page is for the rock metal audience, the images are quite aggressive and in your face, which is what metal represents.  The audience that this is targeted for is young adults, due to the older aged people don't really like this style of music, due to how loud and fast it is, young adults when going to concerts have the energy to be doing things like "mosh pits" at these types of concerts.  The people who like this style of music are shown in the image with all the younger people pushed up against the barrier enjoying the music, even though they are being squashed. Also there isn't a gender to the people who like this music, both males and females are shown in this double page, showing that every type of person likes this style of music. 

Layout

The layout that is used is classic Kerrang style, all down the left hand side of the page is the main body of the text, at the top of it has the name of the main band that is being reviewed, also they use there "K rating" which the more K's there is, the better that they thought the gig was, it is something that some one who just wants a quick look at how the gig was, they can look at the rating and understand what it means due to the key being above the rating to avoid confusion. The center of the page, going towards the end of the right and side is all pictures, there is one main image of the lead signer of Avenged Sevenfold, with images of the band all around the main image. Also some of the other highlights from the gig are shown with some of the images around the main images as well. 

Representation
The emotions that are shown is is a mix of calmness and angry and happiness, some of the images are medium close ups so they are showing the emotion as much as they can by it being right up in your face, but then some of the images when M Shadows (the lead signer) is with a member of Bullet for my valentine (other band), he has his arm around him and they are both smiling and are happy to see each other. So just from looking at the images you can see what the feelings between the people are just by looking by the expressions on there face.
Some of the clothes that they are wearing are really simple colours like black, also M Shadows(lead singer) has ripped the sleeves of his shirt, this isn't normal so again this is showing individuality.

Media Language
There are a lot of medium close ups used, also there is a long shot of the crowed to show the amount of people that have all come to see the band the like.  The lighting that is used is dark and is mainly all back lighted, so it is very bright when it needs to be for the crowd.  All most all the images that are used, some one has an instrument in there hands. I have taken note for this when I am taking pictures for my magazine, to get some images of people with props to make it look as close to a professional magazine as possible. The medium close ups are used to to show what the members of the band are doing with the instruments.