Music Magazine - Front Cover Research

This is one of the first magazines i looked at to get ideas for my music magazine.This is quite plain, blue black and white colour scheme, which i think looks good. The main image is Taylor Swift, popular pop star. Unique selling point having her as the main image. Also her name is bold to show importance. I also think that the fonts on the right hand side look a bit lost they could have been bolder.

This is another music magazine i looked at. I think this one is better than the previous one. I love the black white and red colour scheme i think that really works. Madonna is the main image her name is in big bold text. Also there is a 'Free Inside' this makes people want to buy the magazine. It also gives lists of people inside which the magazine has interviewed, they are all popular music artists or popular t.v people so that makes the magazine more appealing to people.

This is a third magazine i looked at during my research. This one is relatively plain, there isn't too much writing on it. The main image is Mary-Kate and Ashley Oslen, popular actresses, they aren't involved in the music industry so i don't know why they are on the front cover of rolling stones, however popular music artists which are featured on the inside are named on the front cover. I think that the image fits well with the text and the masthead. The only thing i don't like is that the main image and where it says fall fashion are covering the masthead the only thing that you can actually see is 'Rolli', rather than rolling stones. I don't think it looks very good, and will defiantly not doing that on my magazine front cover.

This is the final front cover i looked at, just to show the difference in age. This one is very girly, the colour scheme is pink and yellow which are girly colours. It is also a little crowed it is too busy, there is a lot on the front cover and i think it takes it away from the main image because there is other pictures which is different to normally just having one main image. The main image is Alexandra Burke a popular pop artist which loads of teenage girls admire, and also the main cover line 'how i beat my my bullies' that is a good selling point. A lot of teenagers go through bulling and having a celebrity who has gone through the same thing, they are going to want to buy the magazine to read about it. Again the mast head of the magazine is covered which doesn't look right to me.