Where I got my inspiration for my Music Magazine.

 

I got my inspiration for the style of my music magazine cover from these three covers. I like them because I feel that their style is really bold and also have a good mixture of image and text. I think that their housestyle is also very bold and sends out a powerful message which is what I tried to do with my cover. GQ's housestyle almost always features a music artist wearing fashionable and stylish clothing. I really like the housestyle of the GQ images as I think they show a lot of class and also represent the power of the person in the image as they are wearing an expensive suit which makes them look higher class. They do this because GQ's target audience is mainly aimed at the male population. I know GQ is a fashion magazine but I still feel that the classy style can be used in a music magazine depending on the artist you're using. I also like the fonts of theses three magazines because they really stand out from the images which may be due to the colour as well as the font and how it's placed. One of the main reasons I chose to style my magazine based on these 3 designs is because they all have a similar target audience to me; 16-24 year olds. I feel it would be mainly this age group that reads these sort of magazines whereas older people may tend to buy newspapers instead or other types of magazine.

I didn't really get many ideas from magazine contents pages, I just tried to be unique and create my own style. However, I did notice that Total Film Magazines use a mixture of different fonts and font sizes. I really liked the look of that so I decided to try it with my contents page and I think it worked really well with the numbers on my contents page as I think it made them look a lot bolder and also gave the reader an easier idea of how to navigate through the magazine.