My Music Magazine Collage

A compilation of rock magazines and inspiration

This is the magazine collage I have created, with the most attractively laid out covers I could find. These covers appealed to me because they include the style that I would like to convey onto my music magazine and so I chose five popular music magazines as inspiration. All of these magazines have a predominant masthead which is easy for readers to see on the shops magazine self. They also portray a poster style with lots of bold text and bright colours to catch the consumers eye. This is something I would like to produce for my magazine front cover. Also most of the covers I have chosen have either a; pull quote, cover line, exclusive/competition and addition images. All of the magazines have a striking appeal and attitude to them and this is mainly due to the genre of the magazine and target audience it is aimed at. (teenagers)

NMEThis front cover of NME is very detailedand eye catching. I think this is appealingto the audience because they have usedstriking colours and the cover is mainlypictorial. The model in the image is posingwith his shirt open revealing his tattoo’s,which is something that relates to theissue’s topic (cool list) as tattoos areportrayed as being cool and relate to genreof music that people listen to. In thebackground they have used a lot of blackand white text to contrast the bold coloursin the cover lines. In the top right of thecover, the editor has used a burn effect tothe page, underneath revealing moreinformation on the issue. This effect makesthe cover look like its burnt through to thenext page of the magazine and this issomething that I would like to use whencreating my magazine.

MOJOThe front cover of MOJO is mainly pictorial andthat of a poster style or perhaps a CD cover. Inthis issue the main image features the band‘Muddy Mania’ and has photographed them in aclose up shot with all the members visible onthe cover. This is appealing to the audiencebecause the image is quite eye catching and setin an unusual style for a magazine. The boldmasthead is also easy for the reader to find andties in with the overall style of the magazine. Onthis cover there are pull quotes, flash pullquotes and exclusives. The font on the covercontrasts well with the image as they have usedgold’s and white’s to match the infamousmasthead and main image. This is something I would like to use for mymagazine as inspiration, as I feel the contrastingcolours is a very effective.

Kerrang!This particular front cover is very eye catchingis it features one of the members of ‘Fall outboy’. He is photographed eating an ice-creamwith the cover line underneath him using thepun ‘Life is sweet’. The masthead is locatedbehind the image but it is still clear from thestyle and font, that viewers know this isKerrang. The front cover is mainly pictorial withseparate images of other bands featured in themagazine. There are few colours but thesecontrast the image well as the model is wearingan orange jumper, and Kerrang’s primary

colouris yellow.

The inspiration from this front cover, which Iwould like to apply to my magazine, is thehumorous appeal to the issue using my chosenBand. I would like to create a fun and

interestingmusic magazine, as opposed to the seriousPosing attitudes of most rock bands featured inMusic magazines.