This first magazine features a close up image of Lana Del Ray that takes up the entire page; there is minimal text on the page which makes the magazine cover look professional although this is typical of a fashion magazine rather than music magazines. Lana Del Ray is an artist and performer however this information is not obvious from the front cover. I dislike close up camera angles for music magazines as they are deceiving but also not necessary, usually people are fans of musicians and bands because of their songs and their style, not necessarily solely their appearance.
These 5 magazine covers all feature mid-shots of one person; the mid-shot is the most commonly used camera angle for front covers of magazines as it stands out the most as well as allowing enough space for text. Every magazine has very distinctive colour schemes, the Azealia Banks 'The Hundreds' magazine (top right) includes white, red, and darker tones including black, brown, and purple; and the Taylor Momsen 'Page Six' magazine is very neutral including grey, white, black and pale skin tones. It is important for a magazine colour to have a smaller range of colours as it looks more professional and neat.
The NME magazine featuring Rihanna looks completely different to any regular NME magazine featuring any indie/alternative artists. As Rihanna comes under the Hip-Hop and R&B style of music, typical NME fans would not expect her to be featured on the cover; the usual NME logo is black, white, and red. The original page format has been transformed into what now looks like an R&B/Pop magazine, with a colour scheme of bight blue, bright pink, black, and white.
These three are all moderately long-shot magazine covers; ELLE is a fashion magazine featuring Alexa Chung (model); Rock One is a music magazine featuring Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless - band); and Esquire is a Men's magazine featuring Blake Lively (actress).
The ELLE magazine is quite clearly a fashion magazine by just looking at the front cover, this is the subscribers edition however so it has less text and advertising on the front page than the general copy. I will try to stay as far away from creating a fashion style magazine as I can to ensure that it is clear that my magazine is of the music genre.
Rock One is a music magazine featuring mainly rock bands, but it also includes reviews and images from other genres of music as well. Judging from the cover page it looks like a very gothic magazine, this is due to the dark colour scheme and background, as well as the eroded font title. I feel that there is too much going on on this front cover; there should either be one main image surrounded by text only; or one main image with small amounts of text and a few smaller images. On this front cover the text and smaller images all combine to be over the top, however this could have been designed to appear dramatic and overcrowded.
In my opinion Esquire also looks as though it could be a music magazine from the front cover alone. The colour scheme is simple and the font used on the cover can appeal to all audiences as it looks as though it is hand written. The cover appears as a small version of the contents page as it includes page numbers with titles of pages as well as slogans such as 'you have to read this' and quotes from the pages themselves.
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