On the front cover of Kerrang! the person covering for the magazine is Jared Leto who is the lead in the band “30 seconds to mars” the reason they may have him on the front cover is that he is the lead singer so he is probably the most well know out of the band which makes him a public eye cone, Also that the band is really big and as he is on the front cover that is probably going to be the main feature which you read in this magazine. Jared Leto is wearing what looks like a blazer which is grey black which gives the impression of punk and rock which they are obviously trying to come across as. The makeup which he looks like he is wearing is very pale and dull foundation which you put on the skin, along with the black eye liner which again shows instantly when you look at him that he is in a band and very rock like, along with his hair which looks straightened his hair is long again so you get the stereo typical punk rock band image straight away. The photo is portrait and is a medium close up as you can see mostly his face and partly some of his body which is his shoulders upwards. I also think that Photoshop has been used in this image as his eyes look very dull and grey which I think could be edited to give a gothic look. The way that this picture stands out to the target audience is that him in general gives the look of rock/gothic which this magazine is all about, the colours are typical dark colours which suggest rock also with the long straightened dark hair with the pale face all associates with the rock band look which is aimed at the target audience.

The logo isn’t very eye catching as you can hardly see it as the artist who is on the front cover is in front of the text, if you were to want to buy this for the first time you wouldn’t know if it was Kerrang! or not due to the poor visibility of not see half of the logo. They have tried to make it stand out by putting the first part of the logo in white on a red background which is a strong contrast and stands out along with the rest of the logo which is in black its originally colour for the logo on a white background also for a strong contrast to make it eye catching.

At the top right hand corner of the front cover there is a pug which in it says “Meet black veil brides!” the reason they have these pugs is to put chances to win prizes which attract the reader’s attention and wont to enter the competition it helps with the colours being different and stand out compared to the colours of the cover of the magazine.

The Title “30 SECONDS TO MARS” shows the name of the album that they are obviously going to talk about in the magazine it is in big capital letters to make it stand out and make it eye catching along with the contrast of colours used with the “30” and “to” in black on a white background gives it that eye catching feel they want to create.