Magazine genre

I'd like to base my magazine on Rock and Pop music. Magazines which are involved with this genre include:

Rollingstone magazine-

NME-

And CCM magazine-

What these magazines have in common to make them seem like a Rock and Pop magazine includes a rather simple masthead- with a single bold colour and a clear font choice. The cover stars are young in age therefore they wear a bit of colour to their clothing whilst displaying a casual pose (mainly in a medium close up) with direct address. These cover stars are wearing stylish and appealing clothing suiting their age as well as towards the target audience. The layout mainly shows the cover lines on either the left or right, the fonts are bold and clear with colours suiting the house theme. The house colours involved in these covers vary between red, black, white, yellow and orange; all bright and simple colours in order for them to draw the audience's attention. Some of the covers include interesting designs to the layout with the use of arrows, underlines and plus signs; this displays a quirky and young feature to the cover.

These magazines mainly have one cover star. I like this idea since the attention will focus on them and their story. Also the backgroud to the cover are very plain and simple therefore, again, the cover star and masthead will dominate the attention.

I will take these ideas and use them for my own magazine, in this way, my magazine will suit the target audience and fit well with the Pop and Rock theme.