This document summarizes the key design elements of magazine covers across different music genres including hip-hop/rap, rock/pop, R&B/hip-hop, and rock/indie. Common elements highlighted include the masthead, cover images, pricing, barcodes, and sell lines used to attract target audiences. Color schemes, fonts, and photo positioning are also discussed as techniques to match the aesthetics and interests of each genre's readership.

1. Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

2. Flowing colour
Very Pale – contrast Scheme – yellow,
with the blood Pink and black
Direct Address
‘You’ Incentives that
Are exclusive to
The magazine
Masthead Key Image
Magazine Blood could connote
Slogan and reflect the
audience
characteristics and
interest (audience of
mainstream rock and
pop)
Sell Lines
The font
re-enforces
feminity, looks as
Change of if its been written
Font to attract with lipstick
attention upon the
Main feature story
Month/ Edition
Question to entice
the reader
To want to read Price
The magazine
Barcode
Pun – ‘blood’
relates to image Genre: Rock/Pop

3. Puff/ Special Issue
Background
Picture of ‘the
streets’ could
relate to the top
Masthead
story
His head position
connotes a very
confident attitude
Main Feature which is
Story ; with the commonly known
Celebrity name for the hip-hop
Enlarged – this will and R&B audience
attract the target
audience as they
will be able to Sell Lines
indentify with the
name.
Key Image; where
Issue Edition Info his clothing match
the colour scheme
of the cover which
is green, white and
Barcode red.
Website
Genre: R&B/ Hip-Hop

4. Competitions
Price
Quotes from
celebrities
Masthead
Key Image
The layout
is spilt into
3 sections
– easy to
Main Cover line follow
Which is
positioned
In the centre of
the page – this
pulls the attention
of the audience
Sell Lines – Barcode
positioned along
The bottom of the
magazine – this
doesn’t really
make you want to Genre:
read the stories
Rock/Indie