This document analyzes common design elements and features found on the covers of pop punk and rock music magazines. Key elements identified include a large, centered image of the featured band; a bold title at the top of the cover; high contrast colors; prominent display of the band name in a large, distinctive font to draw attention; minimal blank space filled instead with information on the band or advertisements; and phrases like "world exclusive" used to entice readers. These visual styles and marketing techniques are consistently employed across magazines in this genre to attract fans and promote album releases or interviews.

1. DECONSTRUCTING
CURRENT POP PUNK/ ROCK
MAGAZINES

2. Clear, bold, centred image of
the featured band, this is a
feature of many pop punk/
rock magazines.
Bold, in your face title at the
top of the magazine,
common to this particular
type of magazine.
Very harsh colours.
Visually attractive and
common to this type of
magazine.
Bands name, My
chemical romance is
very bold, larger than
the rest of the text to
emphasise it and
make sure people
see. This is a selling
point.
Lots going on. Not much
space that isn’t taken up by
the main band or adverts of
what's in the magazine. This
is a very clear code that can
be seen in all magazines of
this type such as KERRANG
and Rock Sound.
Phrases such as “world
exclusive” are typical to
magazines of this genre .
Phrases like this are meant to
draw readers into the magazine.

3. Bold title at the
top of the page,
seen in nearly all
magazines of this
genre.
Fall out boy, the bands
name, is very bold. It is
also a different type of
text and colour of font
to the rest of the text
on the cover. This is a
marketing technique
used by this genre of
magazine as it instantly
draws attention to the
band and bring in fans.
Again, a large
photo of the
featured band
centres the cover.
This is very
specific to this
genre of
magazine and
can be seen in
almost every
example. This
draws in fans of
the band and
entices them to
buy the
magazine.
Phrases like this are
common to front covers
of magazines of this
genre. They make fans
want to read more and
therefore buy the
The whole page is
clustered with
adverts for what's
inside the rest of the
magazine. Barely any
of the cover is blank
space. This is a
common feature of
magazines such as
KERRANG and ROCK
SOUND.