2. Alternative music magazines were
originally from the Rock genre, but
today most include the
indie/acoustic genre as well.
Alternative magazines:
• Q magazines
• NME
• Rolling Stone
• Kerrang!
4. Front cover
• Mastheads are bold, often in artistic fonts
• Cover pages are ‘busy’ and feature a lot
• A lot of colour is used across the magazine
(Red, white, black and grey)
• Skylines are used
• Cover lines overlap the cover image
• The cover image overlaps the masthead
• Very bold text
• Anchorage text
• Issue information on the cover
• Cover images have a direct mode of address
(lady Gaga stares straight forwards)
5. Contents
• The title is in the form of the masthead
• Very busy layout including several pictures
• A lot of colour is included
• Captions and page numbers on all
additional images
• Split into “regular” and “feature” sections
• Page numbers for every article, aligned
with the title
• Main image relates to the main article
• Additional images relate to articles
• A page number for the contents page
• Follow the colour scheme created on the
cover page
(Red, white, black)
• Smaller fonts used for article information
than for the article titles
• Column layout
(Two columns)
Q uses two pages for a contents page.
6. Double page spread
• A clear article title
(often the name of the act
featured- Lady Gaga)
• Page numbers
• A single main image covering
the most of one side of the page
• 2-3 columns of text
• Pull quotes
• Follows the colour scheme used
for cover and contents
(Black,white,red)
• Drop cap
