Conventions of Music Magazines

Front pages:

In this front page the magazine is featuring "You me at six"  this is a very well knows rock band who also share a niche market of "Rock". when looking at the colour scheme they use a limited amount of bright colours on a plain background, this is to make the headlines stand out and look more interesting, also the heading is behind the artists heads, this shows that the artists are more important than the name of the magazine. Another main feature in the magazine is the artists name which is "you me at six" which goes straight across the magazine page to show the band is more inportant.

 In this magazine featuring Metallica cover the artist also overlaps the name of the magazine to show the artist is more important., also the fact that the artist has a guitar with him in the photo shows he obviously plays it. The magazine has METALLICA right across the cover show the main attraction is the band. In this cover they use limited colours which are black white and gold which resembles classic rock.

In this contents page Kerrang use a list style of contents and use black white and yellow. They layout the page  by having photos with sub headings in the bottom left hand corner. This automatically makes our eyes read the page from left to right to make you read the more important headings first.

In this contents page Kerrang use the same techniques as they have big photos with headings to stand out before your eyes drift to the list style of contents. In the pictures there are bigger pictures of the more important artists.

 In this Kerrang double page spread the colour scheme changes slightly as the black red and white is still there a slightly blue picture is added. The layout of this pages is very easy to follow as your eyes flows from the left picture to the wrighting which is in boxes and in a easy bullet point style which makes it more fun to read.

In this double page spread the all red background is more exciting and unique and the black cross that goes across the page keeps a "Rock" theme, also the picture of the artist shows who the journalism piece is about and the form of wrighting keeps it easy to read.