Rock/metal magazine.

In every magazine, the masthead is either left or centrally aligned and is situated at the

top of the magazine. Another connotation of all music magazines that is applied across

all, despite different genres is that there is only one artist who is placed in the centre on

the front cover and this is the main focal point. If there is more than one person on the

front cover it is usually because they are part of a band. The central image is then

covered slightly by the artist’s name which is in large, bold, block capital writing and is

usually the main feature in the magazine. Smaller coverlines are then placed around the

central images which advertise the rest of the content within the magazine.

Each music magazine covers a specific genre of music. Rock/metal magazines such as the

above, (Kerrang and NME) tend to be very cluttered with a lot of writing. The

connotations of this, informs the audience of the genre the magazine covers. Their house

colours are often red, yellow, and white (for their text) which sit against a dark

background allowing the text to stand out and draw the audience in. Personally, I don’t

like these connotations of rock magazines and prefer a more ‘cleaner’ front cover as a

pose to one with a lot of text. These ‘cleaner’ front covered magazines tend to have the

music genre of pop. For my preliminary task I have decided to create a magazine in the

genre of pop as this is the genre I am most familiar with and can confidently target my

audience.

After researching the pop genre, I have found that the central image tends to be more

creative photography and the colours the artist is wearing matches the house colours. As

long as taking media at Alevel, I also do photography so I feel I could produce something

of a similar quality and style to what these pop magazines (such as Clash) have done. Pop

magazines are bright and varied in colours in contrast to rock/metal magazines that are

dark and stick to the same house colours and this is the aspect I like the most about pop

magazines. I would like to create something a similar style to Clash magazine as a pose to

we love pop as this kind of creative and arty style is better suited to me and I don’t like

how cluttered we love pop looks.