These are a collection of magazines that focus on rock music in general which is what I want mine to be. From these I can see that there are a few recurring things in all or most of them.
All of the magazines focus mainly on the lead singer/most popular member, this is done to attract audiences as everyone knows who Axl Rose is and what he looks like, but hardly anyone knows their drummer.
The name of the band featured is easy to see in all of the magazines so that people know who the face is as some people may listen to a band but not be familiar with the face of the lead singer.
They all use bright, striking colors, such as red, blue and yellow. This is done to attract attention and to set a identity through colors.
They all have many bands listed and not just the main one they are focusing on.
Some of the magazines have the masthead hidden by the subjects, this is especially done by Rocksound magazine as they are well known and people would only have to look at the first few letters to know it's them as they have a house style that does not change.
These are all things I can and should use in my magazine.
All of the magazines focus mainly on the lead singer/most popular member, this is done to attract audiences as everyone knows who Axl Rose is and what he looks like, but hardly anyone knows their drummer.
The name of the band featured is easy to see in all of the magazines so that people know who the face is as some people may listen to a band but not be familiar with the face of the lead singer.
They all use bright, striking colors, such as red, blue and yellow. This is done to attract attention and to set a identity through colors.
They all have many bands listed and not just the main one they are focusing on.
Some of the magazines have the masthead hidden by the subjects, this is especially done by Rocksound magazine as they are well known and people would only have to look at the first few letters to know it's them as they have a house style that does not change.
These are all things I can and should use in my magazine.