Moodboard from ishrahjama
Here are 4 mood boards I put together as part as my research based on 4 music magazine that are currently publishing. I did this as I wanted to see how some front covers, contents pages and double spread pages looked like and gain some inspiration from them.
First I looked at Billboard magazine. It is a US media brand, first published in 1894, which focus on news,events,opinions,style and video. It was the only American magazine I had a look at but I felt it was important to see how American music magazines still looked like as it could still give me some inspiration. Out off all the 4 magazine I found the layout to be to more of my style. It mainly features an artist with minimal text, sometimes just a few lines, and their logo going across the left hand side. The artists that are featured are more mainstream music such as Ariana Grande and Katy Perry as the magazine has a "Billboard 200" section which highlights the most listen to tracks. I like this style of cover as it isn't as stereotypical as you think, but comes across as clean and tidy, however when it comes to making mine, I don't think I would include such little cover lines and text. I really like the double spread page of their featured artist that I included as the picture is suitable and the text is neatly organised into columns.
Clash was the second magazine I looked at. It is a UK publishing magazine and is released weekly. The magazine shows artists that are alternative in the style of music but are still popular and successful in their own right. Artists included Rita Ora and The 1975. The theme of the magazine is quite retro in terms of the costumes and colours which is something I like. The mastheads are often white but some may be black as well as the cover lines. the content pages are spread across two pages which is not something I will be copying as I find it unnecessary.
My third example was Q magazine, founded in 1986. Out of all the magazines I found it the most mature and formal. For my target audience I think its grown up. Whist studying it I realised how all the magazines have the Q logo on the top left hand corner and the feature colour tends to be red too to match the masthead. its interesting how they use that as the feature colour and not a colour that comes from the photo itself. The cover lines placing and amount vary from magazine to magazine. With the contents page, I included one main image with a smaller image and text. I like this idea and may possibly use it on my own magazine cover. With the double spread page of Ed Sheeran, it is a nice idea to have a main image that covers the double spread and a white text box for the interview.
Lastly I looked at NME, a british magazine that focuses mainly on puck rock. I found that I didn't like this magazine as much as the rest in terms of its overall style. the front page was fine as it conforms to the stereotypical conventions of magazine. it tends to have its logo in the corner with a close up of its featuring artist as well as lots of text and cover lines. I didn't like the contents page though. To me it looked more like a newspaper with the text below the picture and the contents list along the side. Their double spread though was standard and predictable which isn't bad, just not exciting.
Here are 4 mood boards I put together as part as my research based on 4 music magazine that are currently publishing. I did this as I wanted to see how some front covers, contents pages and double spread pages looked like and gain some inspiration from them.
First I looked at Billboard magazine. It is a US media brand, first published in 1894, which focus on news,events,opinions,style and video. It was the only American magazine I had a look at but I felt it was important to see how American music magazines still looked like as it could still give me some inspiration. Out off all the 4 magazine I found the layout to be to more of my style. It mainly features an artist with minimal text, sometimes just a few lines, and their logo going across the left hand side. The artists that are featured are more mainstream music such as Ariana Grande and Katy Perry as the magazine has a "Billboard 200" section which highlights the most listen to tracks. I like this style of cover as it isn't as stereotypical as you think, but comes across as clean and tidy, however when it comes to making mine, I don't think I would include such little cover lines and text. I really like the double spread page of their featured artist that I included as the picture is suitable and the text is neatly organised into columns.
Clash was the second magazine I looked at. It is a UK publishing magazine and is released weekly. The magazine shows artists that are alternative in the style of music but are still popular and successful in their own right. Artists included Rita Ora and The 1975. The theme of the magazine is quite retro in terms of the costumes and colours which is something I like. The mastheads are often white but some may be black as well as the cover lines. the content pages are spread across two pages which is not something I will be copying as I find it unnecessary.
My third example was Q magazine, founded in 1986. Out of all the magazines I found it the most mature and formal. For my target audience I think its grown up. Whist studying it I realised how all the magazines have the Q logo on the top left hand corner and the feature colour tends to be red too to match the masthead. its interesting how they use that as the feature colour and not a colour that comes from the photo itself. The cover lines placing and amount vary from magazine to magazine. With the contents page, I included one main image with a smaller image and text. I like this idea and may possibly use it on my own magazine cover. With the double spread page of Ed Sheeran, it is a nice idea to have a main image that covers the double spread and a white text box for the interview.
Lastly I looked at NME, a british magazine that focuses mainly on puck rock. I found that I didn't like this magazine as much as the rest in terms of its overall style. the front page was fine as it conforms to the stereotypical conventions of magazine. it tends to have its logo in the corner with a close up of its featuring artist as well as lots of text and cover lines. I didn't like the contents page though. To me it looked more like a newspaper with the text below the picture and the contents list along the side. Their double spread though was standard and predictable which isn't bad, just not exciting.
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