Music magazines

Most music magazines have a target audience of young people, it also depends on the artists they are going to feature. Although Magazines such a Mojo have a older target audience because they feature older artists such as the Beatles, and a lot of rock from the 70's and 80's, music that appeals more to older people such as middle aged people.  If a magazine is going to have lots of posters in such as Kerrang their target market is teenagers who will put the posters in their rooms.
Where as a magazine such as NME will have a wide target audience because of the wide variety of content they have in their magazine, features that will appeal to younger and older people.

Font ideas

These are some fonts that i have been looking at for my college magazine. I used coolfonts to get these.

Music magazine research

Top magazines-  There are many different music magazine genres, such as rock, pop, hip hop, even surf rock.
The popular magazines, are one such as Kerrang, NME, Q, Rock Sound  Nme focuses on indie and rock music, and their target audience is around 16 and over more focusing on young adults rather than young teenagers. They also aim for anyone who is interested in they type of music they focus on , and its published weekly.
A really big music magazine is Kerrang, the focus on rock and screamo music. I think their target audience is mainly teenagers, they talk about a lot of bands with younger fans, and have many posters inside, which teenagers will use. It is also the UK's biggest selling rock magazine. It is published weekly.

 The worlds most popular music magazine in Mojo. Their main focus is classic rock music. I think this magazine has a target audience 18 and above, as it focuses on older performers such as the Beatles.

Contents analysis

This is a contents page from Elle magazine. I really like the layout of this one, with the image and title at the top of the page, and the actuall text being the other half. This is something i would be interested in doing for my magazine. I like the simple colours of this one, it really works well with the top image,as its mainly black and white with a hint of other colour, Elle's being red,this is also something i would be interested in using in my magazine.

Contents analysis

This is a contents page from Kerrang Magazine.  This has a lot more text and colour on it compared to the last one i looked at. It has a lot of small text, but also has a few different images around the page. It does have one main image, which the the smaller ones are placed round this, and the main text. It has lot a lot to look at, the whole page is completely coverd with text or pictures. which is something i don't want when designing my magazine.

Contents analysis

This is an example of Spin Magazines contents page. I love the colour scheme and layout of this one. It's very minimalistic, which is something i am interested in for magazine. Again i really like the black, white and grey colours, this makes it look more colourful than just black and white. This is also something i would be interested in doing to add some colour to the magazine. I espically like how that page is more focused on the image, which takes up most of the page, and the actual text is very small and to the side.

Cover analysis

This is an example of NME magazine cover, it's a special edition so the cover image is in black and white, with only the masthead and sell lines in colour. The cover image is not a studio shot, so it doesn't have one block colour as a background it has buildings. I like the way this looks espically, with the black and white colour scheme. But i dislike the red for some of the text, it suits this magazine, but i personally like other colours with black and white.  Its very simple and has only one image, which i think works really well with the colour scheme. I also really like where they have placed the text, the very top, they very bottom, and across the middle of the cover image.

I would like my college magazine to be lightly based around this cover.