1. MY MUSIC MAGAZINE ANALYSIS
Nicole Holder

3. The masthead this magazine has chosen is a large one, we can see this because the top
section of the magazine is occupied by the masthead only. They have used white for the
obvious reason of capturing the readers attention by contrasting against the colours
used on the background layer of the magazine. The masthead also contains symbols
which are two triangles and a circle around the ‘R’ which I believe is the magazines logo
and identity. The masthead is in text slang which leads me to believe that the magazine
is aimed at a younger audience probably around the age of 17-20.

4. In the main image of this music magazine there are three young men looking directly at
the camera. From the reader’s point of view it looks as if these young men are looking at
them, the purpose of this could be to achieve intimacy or some sort of bond or the aim
could be for the subjects in the image to appear tough to compliment the magazine’s
appearance.
Also, I believe that due to the fact that dubstep is not such a big music genre the young
men in the main image do not overlap the masthead like conventional music magazines
because they’re status is not as ‘big’ as the magazine’s identity.
A long shot makes up the main image however the two men on the right are only visible
from the waist up because the rest of their body is obstructed by text and artistic
graphics. This leads me to believe that the two young men on the right are not as
important as the man on the left.

5. This is the main cover line of the magazine, we know this because it is the
boldest, brightest and largest of all the other cover lines, it is almost as large as the
masthead which could mean that it is the second most important feature on the
magazine and that the reader should notice this secondly. The cover line reads ‘The
Summer of Dub’ which is a play on the words of lyrics of a song, this tells us that this
issue of the magazine was released in summer and it is a summer edition which is
probably why it is the second most important feature, because it informs the reader that
it is a summer edition. This cover line could also suggest that the magazine is aimed at
fans who are serious about this genre of music and would have a summer filled with
listening to dubstep.

6. This magazine does not have a price on it so I think that the
magazine is expensive because the smaller the print of the
price is, the more expensive it is.
The front cover of this magazine contains 4 cover lines 3 of
which are small and one is large.
The layout of this magazine is informal and unconventional.
Most music magazines are formal in their organisation of
font size, cover lines and colour of words. The graphic
effects are all created to ‘shout’ at the reader e.g. The main
cover line, the puff in the bottom right corner at an angle and
the top left corner.
The colour scheme used is made up of the colours
blue, green, pink, yellow orange and white but mainly
orange, white, pink and blue. The orange and the yellow
could relate to summer e.g. the colours of the sun; as does
the green which could relate to the colour of the grass. The
blue could connote the colour of the sky when it is
summer, the pink could link to the colour of the sky when
the sun rises in the summer and the white is a colour that
matches and ties all the colours together.

7. The masthead chosen for this black metal magazine is also a large one however it
does not have a section to itself because coverlines and other features crowd the
space. This magazine has also used white most probably to catch the reader’s
attention but also because the colour of most of the text on the front cover is
white and any other colour porbably wouldn’t have looked as good; this colour
was probably also chosen because it contrasts every colour used on the front
cover especially the black scince it is used the most. The font used for the
masthead is much more jagged and inspired by the music this magazine promotes
where as the dubstep magazine’s masthead did not link to its genre.

8. This magazine uses a skyline which advertises a freebees which could mean that this
magazine has been running for years, is made for dedicated readers and fans and has
made enough money to afford to give away freebees.
Although the price cannot be seen clearly I can tell that the price
of this magazine is £5.99 and that the size of the font of he
price is very small which indicates that this magazine is
expensive enough to have the size of the font very small.
There are 6 cover lines used 3 of them are aligned to be
slightly slanted I believe that these are the cover lines that
stay in this style in each issue whereas the style of the rest
of the cover lines change according to the content and
the main image of the magazine.

9. The layout of this magazine is what I would
describe as organised chaos the reason being that
there is hardly any white space, the magazine is
filled with cover lines and features however it is
organised because of the fonts resemble each
other in style.
Because the magazine is quite chaotic you could
link that to the idea that black metal music is quite
chaotic and due to the various angles most of the
cover lines are adjusted to it could be argued that
this is quite rebellious because it is not following
the convention of keeping everything straight and
ordered.
The colour scheme is made up of red, black, white
and grey. The red could represent blood the white
(I believe) is just a contrast colour and a colour to
tie all the other colours together, the black could
represent the darkness and evil that could be
argued is in black metal and the grey that is in the
picture is added to age the image.