Music magazines have consistent styles across their front covers, contents pages, and double page spreads:
- Front covers feature a full-body shot of a famous musician looking at the camera, along with the artist's name in large text.
- Contents pages list sections in the left column, showcase artists' photos in the middle, and promote articles in brief text at the bottom.
- Double page spreads center around a large photo of the featured artist with quotes and questions from an interview surrounding the image. Details about the artist's life, career, and upcoming work are discussed.
2. Front cover
- Both front covers
have an famous
music artist in the
middle of the
magazine as the
main image, as both
magazines are
music magazines
they need popular
artist to be on the
front cover. Both of
the artists have full
eye contact, and are
looking straight at
the camera. The
photos are shot from
head to the thigh
- Both magazines
have a big
mastheads at the
top, the main Looking at music magazine front covers I
images cover up bits have found out that they have quite a lot of
of the masthead similarities, they both have a main image of a
however you can celebrity right in the middle, usually looking at
still see it. the camera, they include coverlines about
- The main cover line - The backgrounds of - Includes a puff with other celebrity's and the biggest coverline is
is the name of the the magazines are plain information in it about usually the name or something about the
celebrity that is colours another band or artist celebrity who's the main image.
featured on the front of (black, grey, white)
the magazine, both in
capital letters.
4. Contents page
- Both Contents
page’s have the
name of the
magazine in the top
left side of the
magazine.
- The name of the
page ‘Contents’ is
situated at the top of
both magazines in
bold capital letters.
- The main part of
the magazine (in
the middle) features
a picture or pictures
of famous singers
- No patterned
backgrounds,
just simple
colours
- Both magazines have the same layout, the page is
- Next to the pictures split into three sections. Down the left hand side is the
they have put the main contents telling the reader what’s on what page,
page number, this is down the bottom is a section giving the reader a
- There are - Both magazines have stuck
so the reader can snippet of what the magazine has to offer inside, and
subtitles before to simple colour pallets that
find the article or the third section Is the middle/right hand of the
the contents mach their front covers, using
photo shoot that they magazine, both magazines have pictures of singers.
page’s around four colours each.
are featured in.
7. Double page spread - Both double page spreads
include a picture of the
subject, which would take up a
large majority of the page. The
picture could show the singer in
action (on tour) or could be a
simple photo shoot just to show
the reader who they are talking
about.
- Parts of the article will - Name of artist
be enlarged showing featured at the
important parts of the top of the
interview or just magazine, lettin
highlighting bits so the g the reader
reader sees it first and know who they
gets drawn into the are talking
interview by it. about.
- The main part of the double page spread is the article itself, The
article features questions in which the artist has answered, the
singer would of talked about things such as: There
life, tour, relationships, friends, family and upcoming events, all
this information is what the reader wants to read, they want to get
into there life and find out more about the singer.
- I have looked at quite a lot of double page spreads and they are
all very similar to these two, all double page spreads will write
about an interview that has been taken place a while ago, and
include a picture of that artist that will always take up most of a
page.