•A monthly magazine focusing on different types of rock music•Probably targeting Teenagers about 16 to 20 year olds who enjoy that type of music.•It is published Freeway Press Inc.•It costs £3.99•The editor is Ben Patashnik•First published in 1999

Simple Colours of white, blue, black and yellow makes it very clear - these colours are muted slightly making the image of the band very clear to see

The colour switch between yellow and white for each band with the main band name “PARAMORE” in white out lined in colours chosen from the image

Yellow has been used for the free CD Puff to make it stand out as there is not much yellow in that section of the page – the free CD is relevant to the magazine as it would have music on it and it is a music magazine

Skyline – attract to the readers to special features

Anchorage text is used to give information about the main article relating to the main image on the front cover

Cover Image - a 5 piece puck rock band, picture is a high angle long shot . Everyone it looking up and has direct mode of address

The layout of the cover lines are in thirds with lots in the top and bottom third and only the text about the image in the middle third

3 columns for features

writers at bottom

Black/white/ red

colour scheme very

simple

Largest links to the

Features with the

others being of

around the same

size.

Letter from the editor in a

speech bubble coloured in

red to make it stand out.

Logo in top corner with issue

number and date

incorporated in the logo

Page numbers are defined

by how long the category's

last with most of the being

listed like 6-28

In each category had a

description of then articles

on the pages with the band

names in bold

Clear gaps

between each

image that had

different categories

making them easy

to see which is

which

One photo in the

bottom that

doesn't’t have a

square edge

brakes up the tiled

affect

Category titles

coloured red so

they stand out.

Large page numbers in

photos link help to find when

there is interested

Large attention-

grabbing portrait

photo takes Both

pages

Text laid out in 2

columns

Very small font – maybe

8pt so that they can get

a lot of information in a

small space

Quirky pose – musicians

jumping at the same time and

showing there personality in

how they are posed

Large title in

a font the

band might

have used

before as

the title is

the name of

the band.

Colour scheme of

white so that is

stands out against

the image

Information about

who took the photo

in the top corner on

the right

Large drop

capital to

start article

Stand first paragraph introduces

the article. This can be found

above the title in bold to make it

stand out

Text wraps around

the photos with a

pull quote in the top

corner of the page

with black writing

and a white

background making

it stand out

Bright

lighting

making

them look

youthful

A sub heading

below the tile

Influence on my magazine

I will imitate some of the features of RockSound

in my magazine

• A full band shot on the double pages that

covers both pages

• A bold colour scheme that stays constant

• 4+ photographs on the contents page

•A weekly magazine focusing on different types of rock music•Probably targeting Teenagers about 16 to 20 year olds who enjoy that type of music.•It is published bauer.•It costs £2.20•The editor is James McMahon •First published on 6 June 1981

Simple Colours of black and white with yellow green and red as accent colours brings out the different features

Most of the writing is in white with key words like Free and the writing above and below the main article in colours

red has been used for the free poser special Puff to make it stand out as there is not much red in that section of the page –the posers are of different bands that might feature in the magazine so it is helping to highlight and advertise the bands

Skyline – attract to the readers to special features

Anchorage text is used to give information about the main article relating to the main image on the front cover

Cover Image - a 5 piece puck rock band, with direct mode of address and each person is in a different pose which shows there personality

It has a 3 column layout

Black/white/ yellow

colour scheme very

simple

Largest links to the

Features with the

others being

smaller

Letter from the editor is next

to the image of the front

cover making it clear what it

is talking about

The issue number and date

are below the title

The page numbers are next

to each tile of the different

pages

Clear gaps

between each

image that had

different categories

making them easy

to see which is

which

The image of the

front cover is at a

canted angle

making it stand out

Category titles

coloured yellow

with a black back

ground so they

stand out.

Large page numbers in

photos link help to find when

there is interested

Large attention-

grabbing portrait

photo takes Both

pages

Text laid out in 1

columns

Very small font – maybe

8pt so that they can get

a lot of information in a

small space

They are in an order

which might signify

their importance in the

band

Large title in

a font the

band might

have used

before as

the title is

the name of

the band.

Colour scheme of white

yellow and green stands

out against the black and

white parts of the image

Information about

who took the photo

in the top corner on

the right

Stand first paragraph introduces

the article. This can be found

above the article in a different

colour so that it stand out

The way

only one

person from

the band is

in colour

makes it so

they the

reader

know

whose the

lead singer

There is a by line

below the stand first

paragraph

Influence on my magazine

I will imitate some of the features of KERRANG!

in my magazine

• I will keep my colour simple keeping it to 2-3

main colours

• 4+ photographs on the contents page

• The text will wrap around a part of the double

page