Inspirational texts

Here are some inspiriational texts, which are all magazines from a similar genre to the one I wish to use:

These magazines all feature some conventions.  They all have very basic colours, usualy black, white and red. The fonts are usually white, bold, and rather plain-looking.  This makes them stand out well, especially against the black background.  The images are usually just of the head and shoulders, and are usually looking straight at the camera.  And they also display some sorts of fashion common in the music scene, which in turn creates a greater audience appeal.  I will incorporate some of these features into my own magazine.

These contents pages have an image to the side, sometimes with a quote from that band or artist to get the reader to want to read on with that story.  A coloured box at the side displays the band names with a page number next to it.  I think that this layout is easy to read and it gives a good overview of the bands in the magazine.  I will use these features in my own.

My double page spread will copy the same style as the contents.  It will have the images alongside the coloured boxes, and the boxes will have text in them.  The only difference is that the coloured boxes will be bigger and there will be more text.