Spin magazine has inspired the document author's magazine concept. Spin features alternative rock bands like My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day that appeal to a wide target audience rather than focusing on specific genres like grunge or heavy metal. The consistent fonts and color schemes in Spin keep the layout professional and stylish without overpowering the main images. The distinctive Spin logo also makes it memorable to readers, which is something the author wants to achieve with their own masthead design. While Spin uses mid-length shots as main images, the author plans to experiment with close-ups.

1. Similar magazines

2. Similar magazines
• Rock sound
ROCK SOUND has inspired my chosen sub genre as it features similar artists and music that I hope to
include in my magazine. Although this magazine focuses more on the heavy metal rock, mine will take a
different approach and go more alternative rock based bands. But still including some of the heavy rock
bands to appeal to a wider target audience.
ROCK SOUND tends to use a different colour font each week, making it appear original, where as mine
will keep the same colour masthead each week, allowing the readers to recognise the masthead which
therefore will make my magazine more memorable
I feel that the edgy boisterous fonts and images tend to edge more towards a male target audience
whereas mine will cater for both sexes, I will do this by including bands with both male and female
artists and articles that appeal to both sexes

3. SPIN MAGAZINE
SPIN magazine has been an inspiration for my magazine as it features bands of a similar genre such as my chemical
romance, paramore and green day.
Out of all the magazines I have looked at SPIN is what I would like to base my magazine on as it features more
alternative rock rather grunge or heavy model, which is a main feature of other rock magazines,
Spin keeps consistent font which is a feature id like to include in mine, as well as this the colour schemes and layout
does not overpower the main image, but instead keeps the magazine looking professional and stylish.
Another feature of SPIN that appeals to me is that the magazine features a variety of bands that appeal to a wider
target audience, it does not only focus on certain stereotypical rock bands. This is something I would like my magazine
to include.
I like how distinctive the SPIN logo is which makes it memorable to readers, this is something I will look into when
designing my masthead.
A common trait of spin magazine is that they use mid/long shots as their main images where as I will experiment with
using close ups as my main images
Overall I feel that SPIN uses many techniques such as direct address, a variety of house colours which make the
magazine so successful.