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Mast head is bold, as usual, and significant as it is what draws the attention of the reader.

Cover lines are like a newspaper, red and black, and are consistent. This is the house style of Q. Very eye-catching and are the main two colours of the magazine.

The house style is consistent and the magazine follows the usual conventions for a cover.

The head line is in a contrasting metallic silver colour. The only different coloured font on the cover.

The main fonts are sans serif for the main features. The other articles featured on the cover are in serif font. The strapline quote is in serif to be formal.

Different sized fonts to create an impact

Columns are featured like a contents page for consistency

Q MAGAZINE FRONT COVER

Cover story gets its own headlining box

Pagination is consistent, same colour as the article headlines, and house style is still showing in the contents page

Body copy is the same font, but with the headlines standing out in capitals letters & serif

Contents page is a double page spread

Captions under the articles are in a flushed style, not justified

Red is the spot colour. Red, black and white works well together

Q magazine contents page

This is my favourite contents page because it works really well: red, white and black with a little bit of grey is good. I will base my contents around Q’s contents.

An interesting double page spread. I like the white space and how the columns do not form to the whole page.

Drop cap, bold. The fact that there is a ‘gutter’ underneath, the drop-cap is a lot more striking.

Right page is a simple photography with one pull quote of WOB (white on black REVERSED-TYPE, striking compared to the usual convention [ i.e. on the other page])Pull quote is in capitals and a flushed style with a red comment underneath in a serif font.

Q magazine double page spread

Red mast head, which is a very common colour on music magazine mast heads.

This cover doesn’t follow NME’s usual conventions and I think that this cover is messy and unattractive.

The artwork is like a magazine/newspaper collage with cut outs and cardboard. I think that the cover is not as strong as the other magazine covers out there in the music magazine market.

Again there are black and red are the main font colours with the headlines being black on white.

The banner above the mast head is leaded, spaced a little wider than the other type on the cover.

The fonts are a mixture of sans-serif and serif.

Pull quotes are used once.

This is my least favourite front cover because it looks like a child has done it. Magazines should be neat on the cover

NME MAGAZINE FRONT COVER

The problem with this contents page is that it bares little resemblance and similarity with the front cover, although the contents page does actually follow the usual conventions of the magazine.

Its house style of the contents is good. Body copy is bold.

Red and black is used frequently again by this magazine.

Headlines (from the cover) have bold sans-serif fonts whereas the other articles have are in serif fonts.

The body copy is flushed.

Each headline has a corresponding picture. Pagination is used.

The page is in columns that are easily to follow and work well

Best thing about this contents is the columns and the use of the pictures. I like this more than Kerrang!’s one.

NME MAGAZINECONTENTS PAGE

Double page spread is interesting because it doesn’t typically use the colours from the rest of the magazine. The house style is different here.

Spot colours are blue and grey and are skewed around the artwork. The columns are in unconventional shapes which makes the double page spread a bit more interesting.

Bold fonts.Flushed style.

The use of white space is good because it is used in a way where there isn’t too much space and it is not too busy.

Sidebar of visuals, graphs – breaks the conventions of the page.

NME MAGAZINE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Despite being interesting this is my least favourite double page spread. The blue and grey isn’t that bold and I think that it is kind of bland for a double page spread

Kerrang! Front cover

Complimentary colours of yellow, blue, red and white on black. Despite the busy cover the colours work well together.

The mast head is behind the artist(s) featured. The mast head is white, bold and distorted in a metal/rock music type of font.

There is a banner above the mast head for freebies, enticing the reader to buy the magazine.

Cover lines are in black, yellow, white and red.

The whole cover’s type face is in capital letters, emphasizes the genre of the music magazine, rock/metal.

There are mainly headlines but no pull quotes and there are two subheadings.

Weight is heavy on the cover and the fonts are unjustified.

By far my least favourite front cover. It is too busy and it yells at you with all capital letters. I don’t like it K

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This is my least favourite contents page of the three magazines. It does work, because of the column on the right hand side, but I don’t think it is as good as Q magazine or NME’s contents page’s.

Right hand side column features are highlighted with black boxes that are justified.

Headlines are in capital again

Body copy main font is bold.

Some features/news have subsidiary headlines, information about the article itself

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This double page spread works well and I think that this is my favourite double page spread out of the three.

Drop caps are in red and are eye catching

Serif headline of black and red again

Image is in the middle of the pages

Doesn’t follow the house style or conventions of the rock-y style of Kerrang! but is a good addition to the magazine

Font is justified but indented to allow the reader to read and find the next paragraph easier.

Black white and red are highlighted here throughout

Box panels are used

A nice contrast compared to the cover, classy like Q magazine. This double page spread is joint favourite with Q’s double page spread

Captions in italic handwritten font

Sidebox is in vivid red with black and white font. This works really well

4 different fonts, 2 sans, 2 serifBody copy is serif KERRANG! MAGAZINE

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD