3. Masthead
Looking at some of the Mastheads of the
magazines I researched, I found the font tended
to be in sans serif font in either black or red. The
sans serif font in capital letters and in bold
attracts the eye of the reader even more, to
make it stand out on the page.
4. Main Image
The main images of NME and Q Magazine tends
to be a close up, although is not represented
here apart from on the cover on NME.
The image has direct from of address, shown in
all 3 covers, to create a personal relationship
with the audience.
5. List of bands Both Q Magazine and NME chose to
feature a list of bands on the front
covers with a ‘+’ sign to tell the reader
what else is in the magazine, and
create hermeneutic tension.
Therefore, I chose to feature the same
list with the ‘+’ sign.
6. Flash
The use of the flash is used by Kerrang!
and Q Magazine to mention competitions,
reviews, etc with the use of bright red to
make it look bolder.
With this in mind, I chose to create a flash
with the line ‘UK’s GREATEST TALENT
SCOUTING MAGAZINE’ to promote the
magazine.
7. Poster Kerrang! and NME feature posters on
the left side of their front covers with
bold lettering. Both contain square-
shaped snapshots of the posters.
Instead, I decided to keep the poster
full-size due to only have one poster,
and keeping it larger in size makes it
more noticeable on the page. However,
the poster is on the left side of the
cover.
8. A Quote from the main article
All 3 of these magazines took a direct quote from
the main article, which is featured on the cover
and placed it on the front cover near to the figure
of the celebrity in the image. Sometimes it is on
top of the image and sometimes next to the
image.
Similar to NME, I chose to place the quote over
the top of the image, under the band name in the
centre, so it is the second thing the reader sees
after the name of the artist.
9. Contents Page
A note from the editor
List of featured
contents
A placement of the masthead
logo on the bottom of the page
A snapshot of the main
article
The poster featured on the
front cover
Images of the other artists in
the magazine
Issue number
A page number
10. Issue number
Both Kerrang! and Q Magazine contain an Issue number
on their contents page, something I chose to do.
This number lets the reader know how long the magazine
has been going and keeps them up to date.
11. Snapshot of the main article
Kerrang! and Q Magazine places
screenshots of the articles further
into the magazine on the contents
page. Opening the front cover, the
reader can look at what the article
might contain, building hermeneutic
tension, unable to see the article
properly so encourages the reader
to buy the magazine to read the
article.
12. List of featured contents
All 3 magazines contain a list
of contents, although Q
Magazine and Kerrang! has
a more detailed list. It gives
slightly more information
about the articles than the
front cover.
I modelled my contents page
to be similar to Q Magazine,
with each feature in the list
telling the reader what they
might expect.
13. Masthead at bottom of the page
Somewhere on the contents page of music magazines is
usually found the Name of the music magazine. On Q
Magazine, the famous ‘Q’ can be found at the bottom of the
contents page next to the page number and date. Whereas,
for Kerrang! It is at the top of the page next to the title
Contents.
On my contents page, the Name of my magazine ‘EMERGE’
is at the bottom of the page next to the page number.
14. A note from the editor
Q Magazine and Kerrang! contain either the Q REVIEW or a note
from the editor to give the reader more information about the
magazine itself and/or the current music scene for the magazines
specific genre.
15. Double Page Spread
Main
image
Quote from the article
Name of the article
Social media links
Name of the artist
3 columns
First letter of the
name of the artist
over the article
cd
16. Quote from the article Kerrang! Magazine is the only magazine out of the
3 magazines I chose that had a quote taken out of
the article and placed over the image.
However, I decided to use that technique, because
a reader that is flipping through the magazine
would notice the quote and want to read the article.
17. 3 columns NME and Q Magazine
use 3 columns in their
magazines, which is a
typical magazine
article layout. I decided
to use this same 3
columned layout.
18. The big letter on top of the article
In Q Magazine, it is a typical feature
for the first letter of the artist in
questions name to be overlaid the
article, in a colour reflecting the
colour scheme. On the right is an ‘L’
in red for an article about Lady
Gaga.
I replicated this. An ‘R’ is overlaid on
the article, for an article about my
artist ‘Rose London’.
