Colour scheme: Blue, White & Red

This magazine portrays a common look of a masthead. Because it stands out and bold. A masthead is supposed to attract you to the magazine and this one obviously attracts you to it. It is also placed in the common place.

The look of this magazine is different to others as it is plain with no plugs or teaser. I personally think that this makes the magazine more interesting as you would have to physically pick it up to see what articles are within it.

The simple layout of the front cover also matches the chosen artist on the cover. The colours used/layout may link with the artist in some way.

The positioning of the artists and the way she is looking up linking in with the heading ‘heavenly’ on the cover.

The fact there is no teasers for articles gives you the impression that the magazine is already well known.

The magazine gives you a calm, clean, modern and fresh feel that some magazines don’t. This is due to the cool colours and minimal text on this cover page.

Another reason for the simple cover is that the target audience may appeal more to the simplistic from cover.

Masthead: San Serif font

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Colour scheme: Red, White & Black

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The subheading ‘pun’ links with the cover photo

Q Logo is the brightest thing on the page. Its eyes catching and easy to spot if it was positioned on the shelf with other magazines

Teasers on the left of the page tell us what articles are going to be within the magazine. It allows the audience to decide if they like what’s inside the magazine

Heading suggests that this artist has done something to shock us

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The magazine give us quite as fiery/predominant look, this could state that this artist and/or the magazine is pretty big on the scene right now

This magazine has a typical layout of a front cover as it has a masthead, teasers, buss words, plugs and heading

Colour Scheme: Black, grey, white (links with cover band)

Not much information about what’s inside the magazine. However it is obvious that the magazine is based around and will probably have a section to do with the band on the cover.

The black bold masthead is still very catching due to the black on light grey background.

They may want to enhance the band on the front cover more than anything

The free magazine is an eye catcher and grabber for the magazine as

Shows other bands that will be featured in the magazine

Sub heading links with cover photo.

The colour scheme of the front cover may link with the artist

Typical layout of the band with the lead singer at the front of the group

Low key lighting to represent the genre of music, quite deep, slow music, some say depressing... – The use of dark clothing and colours

Colour scheme: Black, White, Red

Lead singer positioned in the front and in the middleMasthead

Common place for a masthead to be placed

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Teasers and buzz words are used in this cover page to attract the audience to it more. It gives them an insight of what is going to be within the magazine

Kerrang is a well-known rock/alternative rock magazine so the use of dark colours adds to the cover giving you more of an idea of what genre magazine this is

In the skyline there is a banner advertising the chance to win free tickets, this will help magazine sales tremendously

Quite a packed front cover gives us the idea that there is a lot to view in the magazine

Skyline attracting people to the magazine with the special edition

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Light background to make him stand out on the page

Linking the magazine with Christmas, ‘the Grinch speaks’ – Simon Cowell known for being quite a mean person

The magazine gives you quite a fierce look; this connects with the front cover as Simon Cowell is quite a strong/powerful person in the music industry

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