Pop magazines:Pop magazines usually consist of bright colours, different shaped font, buzz words, various graphic images and pop artists images on the front cover. Young pop magazines are usually cluttered with lots of information packed into the front colour to attract the younger audience.

Pop magazines usually have feminine colours as that is the main type of audience that buy pop magazines. Also, there would be articles such as make up and hair tips and celebrity gossip which would also encourage the audience to buy that magazine. The name of the magazine would be large and would probably stand out the most, it would also have a bright bold colours. The main image would always have a current and popular artist or band and would usually have an ‘exclusive’ interview with them.

The language would be informal so that the readers feel like the magazine is talking to them therefore forming a relationship between the magazine and reader which would encourage them to buy more magazines from that company.

Rock MagazinesRock and heavy metal magazine front covers would usually use dark colours as heavy metal is quite a dark type of genre of music. They also would have a lot of clutter like in the pop magazines because heavy metal readers and their music would be seen as mad and messy so it would reflect onto the magazine front covers. They would also have big bold writing and buzz words to attract their type of reader. The central image would not necessarily have a current artist or band but a well known one such as Queen, one that will be remembered for a long time and is extremely famous.

Indie Magazines An indie magazine would have a

simple masterhead and the materhead title would be large and take up the whole top section so that it is easy to stop on the shelves amongst the other magazine competitors. The main image would have a current band or musician as most indie music is aimed at the younger generation. There would be a lot of puffs with other band names and current news in the indie industry. There could also be other graphic images of other indie bands that are also current and this would attract the consumers as it doesn’t feature just one band or musician. The colours would be dark and neutral as indie can be like rock but it is not as heavy and loud as rock so the colours would reflect on the magazine. Indie is also not as messy as rock so that would also reflect on the magazine as it would not be as crowded or cluttered as the other magazines such as pop and rock.

Dance Magazine

Dance magazines would have bright and powerful colours that would reflect the club lights. They would have puffs and graphic images of celebrity gossip as dance magazines would be mainly aimed at young women aged 18+. There would be a main image most likely to be a young woman that is current in the music industry that sings dance music along with an ‘exclusive’ interview. The magazine would be cluttered which would reflect the people who go clubbing as they would like to think they have a crazy ‘cluttered’ lifestyle. The masthead would be bright and bold to attract people to buy the magazine against all the other dance magazine competitors.