Magazine Reasearch-Moodboard

In order to gain inspiration from a wide range of different sources and help me pick a music style to incorporate in my magazine project, I decided to create a moodboard with a collection of images to inspire me. The styles of music included in the magazine incorporated in this moodboard vary from heavy metal to pop music and each appear to have very different styles. The 'hip hop' magazines such as Vibe, Scratch and Spin appear to have plain backgrounds with bold foreground images of celebrities posing. They appear to use especilly plain fonts and primary colours on their covers such as blues, reds and yellows. The rock magazines seem to use much more complex fonts in bold colours. The most popular colour that seems apparent from this moodboard is red, a bold, stand-out colour which would draw potential readers eyes to the magazine. Pop magazines appear to use stereotypically feminine colours such as pinks and purples and seem to give off a 'pretty,' impression. Foreground pictures seem to dominate the majority of magazine covers, the majority of them also appear posed as opposed to 'papped' photographs which are commonly seen of the covers of fashion magazine such as 'Grazia.' The background of the cover seem to be mainly black, greys and white, perhaps to ensure that the attention paid to the actual image to avoid a confused and cluttered front cover.