Music magazine research on front covers

                                             Music Magazine Research On Front Covers

The music industry has a vast range of genres which are listened to by people all across the world. There are separate music magazines for each genre aiming at different audiences. With  music magazines they have to work hard to put across the genre of music they are as the readers are unable to listen to the music through the magazine. So it is vital for the editors  to used the right images, font, layout and style.

The music magazine that can be see today all include the key conventions. Such as on the front cover they would include a masthead thats relates perfectly to there magazine genre. Another main thing that is common in all music magazines in they usually have a photo of a relevant artist on the front, where there music would be featured in the magazine. A swell as using an appropriate colour scheme.

Examples of different magazine genres :

Here is an example of a popular classical music magazine. It has used the main conventions for example they have used a famous conductor. Straight away from this image you can see that the genre is classical because of the piece of equipment that is being held. However they have only included one photo  on the cover this helps keep the magazine simple and to the point.
Down the side of the magazine they have included things that are coming up within the content of the magazine. This helps interest the reader drawing them into want to read more.
The colour scheme of this magazine is quite dark all blacks white and reds.
The font on the cover is all quite plain, this gives a sense of control.
They have also used puffs, at the top of the magazine the have the BBC logo staying thats its the worlds best selling classical music magazine.This magazine is aimed more for people aged 45 + due to the the fact it is more sophisticatedly presented.

In this issue of Kerrang they feature on the front cover a photo of Hayley Williams, from the band Paramore. The image of her acts as the background for the magazine cover. They have also used lots of bright lively colours. This shows that the magazine is aimed at the younger generation. The Fonts used on this magazine are all big and bold. Also The title 'Kerrang' is all shattered like its been broken. This portrays madness which links to the type of audience they are trying to appeal to. Because they are aiming at a younger audience they have kept the writing on the cover very minimal, and instead used lots of relavant pictures. This helps draw in the attention as there are lots of this to look at making the magazine stand out.

The genre of NME magazine is indie/rock aimed at teenagers to young adults. The main cover image is of Florence An The Machine, they way in which she is posing helps show that this is for a younger audience. They way she has her legs on show wearing only minimal black clothing. They way the photo of her is taking up the majority of the front cover gives the readers an insight of what style of music magazine it is. The colour scheme in on this cover is red white black and yellow. All these colours are quite bright which helps appeal to the younger audiences. Also because the colours are bold it links with the rock genre as rock players are all know to be quite bold and confident. The use of read in the colour scheme also helps link to the image of Florence as she is iconicity know for having red hair.   There is an even ratio of pictures to writing, this also helps show why it is for more older teenagers.