TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE FRONT COVER OF ROCK SOUND....

The UK edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Freeway Press Inc, who had already published the title in France. The magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004 and  it falls in the category of music magazine.their main competitors could magazines like Classic Rock Magazine andQ Magazine. The colour combinations of this magazine and the main image is likely to get the attention of the customers.
 The colours of that stands out in the front cover of this magazine are the colour red, black and white these colour also made the main image to stand out. The front cover of this magazine attempts to attract the audience by the use of a huge text that said 'NEW ALBUM EXCLUSIVE  YOUNG GUNS UNLEASHED DOWN UNDER'  in huge text across the main image.The word exclusive makes it look special and would is likely to attract more audience specially the Young Guns fans. On the top left of the magazine we could see that they were giving away special bumper poster of BlackVeilBirds another factor which would attract audiencesThe cover lines are mostly about other bands and singers this would attract audience who may not be a fan of Young Guns but are of the other bands and singers who are mention on the cover lines....bands like Fall Out Boy and Evanescence.
The front cover main image is of the band members of the Young Guns who seem to be looking  straight at the audience making eye contact.Their clothes gave away the image of being  this young generations with rip jeans, converse , hoodies and base ball cap a very comfortable look yet very fashionable at the same time. The background was of light blue colour which help the darker colours from the the clothes to stand out.
 The font of  this magazines are mostly bold and has a very rough look. The main text were mostly in black and red but the other text were a mixture of black, red and white .
At the bottom of the magazine we could see a thick strap of  a red linewhere there was an inside glimpse  of the magazine , the issue's number , the date of the issue was given as well as the price and bar code of the magazine.