Summary of Research

• The main content of both magazines i looked at were; gig reviews, album reviews, biographical stories on the best band at the time, free posters reaching to about four or five at most, and news on the old and new bands around that time.
• The photograph they use for the main sell band are all very, very similar with the main singer in the middle, usually somehow enhanced more than the rest of the band, with the photograph dominating the page.
• They both used simple, yet effective and complimenting colours, for example light green and blue, and black and red.
• On the front cover, they both had a list of bands that they would be writing about.
• Both mast heads were hidden slightly by the picture of the main band, as their names are very well known and it did not need to be very eye catching.
• There is always a key colour on each double page spread which the whole page is consequently based around.
• The language in columns and on the cover is informal.

For my magazine to work, i will need to use similar features to these, whilst trying to create an original look. I like how the magazines were presented and layed out, but they were very boring. So for my own production i want to try and excite the pages up more than K! and Rocksound did.