MAGAZINES

SIMILAR TO

MINE

Here are a few mood boards showing all of

the different front covers, contents pages

and double page spreads that are based

around the pop genre of music.

JOE TURONE

COMMENTS

Front covers – The masthead is always displayed at the top of the page. Background colours are simple and focus mainly on the content of the images and the cover lines. The backgrounds do not draw too much attention from the main subject. On most of the covers bright colours are used in relation to the pop genre. Which is often associated with a fun and happy character. Unlike a rock magazine for example, which would use dark colours.

Contents pages – The masthead is always displayed at the top and doesn’t always read the actual word “contents”. They all have main images and all text is always in columns. Again, bright colour schemes are used, black is an often base text on each of these contents pages where as different brighter colours such as light red and light blur are used as title and subtitles. The same applies to the double page sprads too.

Double Page Spreads – One of the main things I noticed about the double page spreads is that they ofte have a main image and a lot of text. The backgrounds are all white or grey, very white colours. The text helps support this as it is always displayed in columns and makes them look professional. The white background against black gives the double page spreads that classy and elegant look. Drop caps are also often used.