Above is a collage consisting of the magazine cover, the content's page and a double page spread from the magazine 'Classic Rock', issue OCT 2012. The cover page consists of links to the rock band Iron Maiden. You can see this through the use of images of pharaohs and pyramids and text stating 'United States of Maiden' and 'In Maiden we trust' creating a sense of collective identity between the pages. They make a big play on the national identity of the group with America being a theme across all pages. They have used a variety of images from the live concert, big effects with the smoke and pyrotechnics and yellow lighting create a fiery ambiance which reflects the rebellious nature of rock. The use of a dollar bill background underpins the theme of patriotism and ties together the front cover and the double page spread (cover story). The front cover challenges the conventions of a typical magazine front cover, they can do this as they are a very well known magazine, a main music genre that embodies individualistic attitudes. Classic Rock have chosen an image of a band member from Iron Maiden to use on the contents page, its importance is represented by its size, taking up 75% of the page emphasizes the focus on the cover story. They also have a quote and the name of the band of the cover story on the image in quite big font to draw the audience's attention to it.
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