House Style

Rock and Roll magazines often contain the colours Red, Black, White and Brown. The brown colour is often taken from the jazz guitars they use in Rock and Roll bands. The black colour is often taken from the rock image and style which a rockabilly person would wear. The red colour is often used to attract the audience into looking at the magazine. Especially men as it is a fact that men are attracted to the colour red. This is where you would see Rockabilly women wearing red colours mixed with black.

Front Cover Design/Style

I have taken my inspiration from this Rock and Roll Magazine and have put my own ideas forward into what I want on my front cover.

For my main cover image I plan to use a Rock and Roll band to instantly attract attention as people often to look at magazines more if there is more than one person on the front cover.

I plan to use colours such as this type of brown as it blends in effectively with the white text below and next to it. It also reflects off the colour red which is shown above the guitar and red is also another colour I would like to use on my front cover.

I would like the band on my front cover to be wearing similar rockabilly clothing such as Denim, and leather. The colours are mainly black and blue.

In my design I would like to use as little tag lines as possible as I want all attention to be put on the main cover image and the main cover line.

Contents page design/styleThroughout my magazine, I will continue to use the colours Red, Black, White and Brown. This will make my magazine look professional.

For my contents page I would like to use three columns and a main contents page image placed on the right hand side of the page, placed next to the magazine features. This makes the layout look neat and the images stand out.

For the page numbers on the features side of the contents page I would like to use the colours Brown, Red and Black, in a small font so its only optional for the reader to look at and it also sticking to the house style of the magazine.

I would like to use a date on my contents page so it looks as if the audience are being kept up to date with what issue the magazine is and when the next one will be out.

Double page spread design/style

For my double page spread I took my inspiration from the magazine below, which displays very little columns and more images. I would like to use this idea as the audience are often for attracted to the images then they are reading a lot of text.

This magazine double page spread also stood out to me because even though its not the same style of music, they still use the rockabilly colours Red, Black and White. The fact that they use an all black background it means it allows the white and red to stand out and attract the audience.

I would also like to use my main double page image on the left hand side, maybe stretching out onto the right hand side so it’s the first thing that the audience see when they open up the magazine.

When it comes to writing my article, I plan to not use a lot of text as it will not look as effective as having a lot more images. I plan to use two or three columns in my double page spread, with images surrounding it.