To help us gain some inspiration for our own magazines, we were set a task over the summer to analyse and "dissect" three different music magazine covers to see what made them stand out. I did so, and created a Wordle to present it, as well as explaining everything that I analysed about the magazine covers. The key features were bright eye catching colours and bold fonts on all of them.

We were then given the same task, which I did in a little more detail, mind-mapping and pin-pointing some of the features that I saw on the magazine covers. When choosing my magazines, I tried to pick covers that I similar layouts, so I could analyse what was different about them and what was the same. Dissecting the magazine covers was helpful, as it allowed me to focus on what works successfully on a mucus magazine cover (e.g. angle of gaze, bright colours, incentives), and maybe things that weren't so successful (e.g. more then 3/4 colours)

Analyzing  these covers helped me when researching for my music magazine, as it highlights the key features that I will need to include on my front cover. For example, a line of gaze seems to be a common theme on music magazines to draw in the reader. Also, it is very important to have a limited colour scheme, because having too many colours makes a magazine look childish and sloppy. Having bold fonts is important, because you want to make your magazine stand out and fonts are a good way to attract people’s attention, but it is also important to make sure that the space on a music magazine is all filled, be it with texts, graphics or images.