MastheadLargest piece of text on page, stands outOnly text in whiteWhite always emphasises colour

Cover LineList of artists featured in magazine to interest wider audience

Barcode – typical positioning with date and website underneath

Main cover lineMultiple colours – stand outBlack stands out against greyMain focus ‘Rhianna and Chris’ in large font to show importance and catch eyes

Main cover imageBlack and white to make the blue stand out – also to make the blue text stand out against the imageGreyscale has connotations of melancholy, quite dramatic picture Minimalistic approach to cover

to enhance seriousness and simplicity

Sometimes reoccurring colour for actual magazine. EG yellow for Rocksound. Yellow is

bright and is often connotated with danger [for example, crime scene police tape, warning signs,

etc]

Large audience targeted as everyone likes music so all people must be represented or included so, for example, no use of slang or

specialist terminology.Rock sound front cover handwriting notes to

make it seem more relatable and ‘young’. Like a student taking notes.

Rocksound cover ‘the untoldstory’ makes it seem exclusiveso you cannot read about thatissue anywhere else.

White always exaggerates colour and make it more bold, hence it being the background for most covers.

Font consistencies. – branding, recognisable, etc.‘cut out’ format of rocksound. Looks more edgy and appealing. Stands out against main cover picture.

Colour schemes - If article is of the cover story, it’s likely the colour scheme will continue. Either for consistency or coordination with the photo.Usually to link with photo or similar colours (purple).

Rolling stone is an international magazine – it is sold in many countries. For example they have a

Chilean issue.

A different student’s analysis of the Rolling Stone magazine contents page

Grey makes all colour stand out as it is the medium between

black and white

A list of names give the audience a ‘taster’ of all the

information/articles they have on different artists. The artists are also from different genres

[ie, Dolly Parton and Dizzee Rascal] so the magazine is

opening itself up to as many audiences as possible.

The ‘features’ section of the contents shows articles that are

important and focus on the ‘main attractions’ as it were of

the magazine such as interviews and contemporary music news

The ‘regulars’ section shows the articles that are common in the magazine such as the ‘letters’ page, where readers letters to the magazine are responded to

by the ‘Q Team’

The red + white colour scheme is kept throughout the magazine

Large, eye-catching pictures of artists that are a large part of

the magazine’s articles etc