Moodboard Of Magazine Genres

From looking at different music genres of magazines I have created a moodboard which now allows me to see the real difference in the front covers and also develop my knowledge and understanding on how to put together a music magazine.

The first thing that stands out to me is all the different styles of each magazine, for example the ‘rock’ magazines the colours used are very dark eg black as these are the colours that are usually represented with goths, emos and rock music. If we look at the KERRANG magazine straight away the black draws us in and we can see that the man model is wearing eye liner and a lot of black around his face. The central image has the model looking directly into the reader’s eyes which shows that he is talking to the reader. Overall the magazine looks very professional and clear as people will immediately know what type of magazine it is.

Another thing that stand outs is the masthead, as we can see they are all very bold and clear and we immediately know what type of magazine they are talking about. They are all placed at the top of the magazine which makes it look professional and realistic. My favourite mastheads are the MOJO ones as they are clear and readable and the colour of the font goes really well with the other font on the page. However even though the magazines look professional I don’t like how the editor has covered the celebrities face over the masthead as you cannot read what the actual magazine is called meaning this may confuse people. So from doing this moodboard I have learnt that I do not want my central image to be covering the masthead as it is not clear enough meaning if you were a new reader you would not know what the magazine is called.

Also I can see that every central image has a celebrity on the front of them, this immediately shows that the magazine is a music magazine. They have also used many medium shots which I like as you can clearly see the celebrity. Many of them are also looking directly into the camera which represents that they are looking directly into the readers eyes. I want to use a medium shot for my final front cover as they aren’t too close up and this will also allow me to place my cover lines and sell lines around the main central image.

All the magazines have used a lot of cover lines around the magazine; this stands out as it looks like the magazine is busy and has a lot going on inside it which may attract people to buy the magazine. For example the top of the pops magazine with Justin Bieber on has a lot of writing on which really stands out. This is how I want my magazine to look as it makes it looks really professional, I like how it has also included a lot of thumb nail pictures along the side, this is giving sneak peeks about what is inside the actual magazine which could draw more people into buy the magazine because they want to read the actual magazine.

Overall from doing my moodboard it has inspired me on how i want my final music magazine front cover to look. The magazine MOJO and KERRANG has inspired to choose the genre ROCK as I think this would be quite a good theme to work with in terms of pictures and making the magazine stand out. People will also immediately know what type of magazine it is as well.