Existing Magazines

I have decided to focus on Kerrang! magazine for inspiration for my magazine. I regularly buy Kerrang! (including all of the following issues) and so I am more experienced in rock magazines, and therefore will be better at creating my own. These magazines are very conventional, which therefore makes them more believable and professional. Each magazine features a similar layout. The title is always displayed in the same font, however the colour differs to fit in with the overall scheme of the entire cover. Such as the example to the right, which features the band 'Green Day', and therefore it contains a lot of green, including the title. A similar header and footer is also used in each example. They contain side features which include small images to represent the side story. Also, free posters are usually displayed in either the header or footer. 

Kerrang! also usually features more than one person on their front cover, which is unconventional of music magazines, however it is very conventional of a rock magazine, as most rock artists are in bands (apart from a few solo artists such as Gerard Way, who was once in My Chemical Romance). This in genre specific, and I may use more than one model on the front of my rock music magazine to improve the believability of a rock magazine. The colour schemes used are usually very bright colours to catch the eye of the target audience, and therefore I will use bright colours on my front cover. The colour yellow/gold is the most used on Kerrang! covers, and therefore I will also use yellow/gold, as it connotes luxury, that the magazine should be '1st' choice, and that the artists in the magazine are 'stars'.