COLOUR PALETTESI’m going to be looking at the different colour palettes of music magazines and on each slide I have included a different genre of music- Rap, Pop and Alternative Rock. I have 12 examples of music magazines and I have the colour palettes of each of these and I will take inspiration from all 12 magazines and create three possible colour palettes that I feel would suit my magazine. I have put these music magazines in genre groups as we can see the difference in palettes in each genre which tells me how the colours change depending on the music genre. The genre I have chosen for my magazine is Alternative Rock and the reason I haven’t just chosen examples from this genre as I wanted to see what colour palettes attract the audience to different genre of music and avoid these. For example, I can see pastel colours are used a lot in Pop magazines and bold colours are used in Alternative Rock so I know in my final design if I used pastel colours, it is likely the cover would attract the wrong audience.

RAP

POP

ALTERNATIVE ROCK

FINAL COLOUR PALETTES The three overall colour palettes I

have chosen are these to the right of this text. I have taken inspiration from my research of different colour palettes in genre groups and I have made these as I felt they were bold and eye catching which are key aspects in the marketing of magazines. I chose three favourites rather than one as I want to see which colour combination works best in my final design with the text fonts and the model I am going to be using. Not all of these colour palettes are from the magazines as I used the examples to see how the colours fitted with different genres. My next step is to apply the colour paletes to the titles I have decided on and see how the colours and fonts work together.