Research-Moodboard

1. The mood board is made up with different existing
music genre magazines. The board allows me to get
ideas of what a music magazine should look like for my
own magazine. Things included such as the different
types of layout, colour, shot types, context used,
celebrities, props and clothing.
Most existing magazines have a main image of the
celebrity who is the main story of the magazine, this
puts focus on that person drawing relevance to the
context of the issue. They all seem to be wearing
clothing associated with the genre of the magazine and
their own music.
There is a contrast and pattern in colours used on the
cover of each individual magazine. For example the rock
magazines use a darker colour scheme than the R&B and
pop magazines, this contrasts with the style of music ,
rock music is related to be fast paced and have a harsh
tone to it whereas R&B and pop music is subtle and
uplifting so more warm colourful welcoming colours are
used on that magazine front cover to reflect the genre.
Important aspects such as The headline, Names and
cover stories are put in larger fonts on the front cover.
The shot type used on the majority of music magazines is
either a front shot , close up or medium close up shot.
This image takes up the majority of the front cover then is
layered and surrounded by text.