My style models for my music magazine product

Front Cover:


I have decided to base my music magazine on 'Q', as we have a similar target audience and genre, which is young adults (18+) and an alternative music genre. The image on the front cover of 'Florence' takes up the full page which tells the reader that the artist will largely feature in the magazine. The main colour scheme consists of black, white, blue and red. By having a colour scheme that runs throughout the magazine it allows the reader to see that it is professional and has been carefully produced.
The layout of the page is set clearly and organised, which would appeal to a more sophisticated target audience than a structure being an organised mess would, as all the text is easy to read and the colours are bold but not all too bright. 

Front Cover

Contents Page:

The contents page I will be focusing my magazine on will be the right hand side of this style model, as it is full of detail but still clearly structured, as the pictures are aligned and detailed with page numbers on them which allows the reader to link the artists to certain pages that they feature on. The actual text is telling the reader the contents of the magazine, which is laid out down the right hand side of the page in a neat column with subheadings. This is organised so that the reader can view the page and automatically know which story is on what page. Also, the brief descriptions under each story allows the reader to have an initial impression of what it is going to be about.

The main colour scheme matches the front cover with black, white and red, as do the fonts, as the title fonts are bolder than the fonts used when listing the stories in the column which will appeal to the audience as it is appealing and looks professional.

Contents Page

Article Spread:


The colour scheme again follows the front cover and the contents page as it shows that the magazine pages are all linked together and tells the reader that it is a professional magazine that has been created well. On one page a large main image is used to indicate to the reader who the article or interview is about. 
Quotations are used to show the reader that the artist/band has actually taken part in this article and it has not just been made up by a reporter only. The quotations may attract the reader to view that particular story as the quotes are normally, revealing secrets or shocking news to influence the viewer into reading the full article.
Banners of the three colours in the scheme are used at the top of the pages, which have titles and headlines place in front. The contrast of the three colours working together makes the font more noticeable and would attract the reader into viewing the main story.   

Article Spread