music magazine research

For my magazine research I have chosen to do hip hop or street magazine, but before fully deciding on it, I'm gonna carry out research on other magazine genres. After deciding on what genre of music i want to do, i can use this as a template when i create my own magazine. I can copy color schemes and fonts and how they structure there cover lines etc.

the fonts used for Hip hop magazines/albums is usually bold and thick fonts in either black or bright colors  usually black and red. The contents page of a hip hop magazine is usually plain and there usually be big bold writings in black and red. The contents page does not give the full story of the cover lines but however gives a little information to make the readers curious and intrigued. The layouts of the front cover of hip hop magazines tends to be a mid shot of the artist posing in a unique way, the masthead us usually located on top of their head in big bold colors.Although you cant say all hip hop magazines use the same color schemes. For example, vibe magazine uses different colors for the front cover to various artists like in the front covers shown below.

However all music magazines have the same codes and conventions as any other magazine, they all have a big masthead but can be in different font or colors and have a unique and snappy main cover line that relates to the image. However music magazines are different from other magazines because they use a different language to relate with their target audience.