Update and finalise planning ideas

Front cover:

• Masthead takes up normally around 1/6th of the front page (usually in black, red or white)
• Colours/font colours used are white, red, black (it appeals to both genders and the colours black and white are simple and formal)
• Cover stories - main article is always about a specific singer or band which takes up the majority of the front cover, then around the sides there is extra information about what the magazine involves under the headings of 'plus'.
• Features may contain: album review, untold information, unseen pictures, birthday specials, articles, interviews.
• Puffs are rare - shapes (e.g circle on Vintage Rock magazine) and corner folds (e.g on mojo magazine) appear more. 
• Pugs contain the price and date, issue and barcode in the bottom right or left
• Banners are used which explain more of what is inside the magazine and to make text stand out.
• Fonts are normally sans serif/times new roman/ arial bold - Formal fonts.

Pictures and Photography on the front cover:

• Either individual male or female singers or group shots
• Traditional genre representations
• Locations: all of the front covers i have come across so far, their images have been taken in a studio, you can tell because of the lighting. 
• Props include instruments
• Costumes are all formal showing their importance to the music industry

Contents:

• Pages in the magazine are usually about 130
• Articles averaging between 2 and 10 pages
• Layout of contents matches housestyle on front cover.
• Images usually cover all of the columns.
• The masthead is used on the contents page.
• On average there are 10 other articles in the magazine
• There is minimal white space on the contents page - full of images and text.
• Most articles have a image to go with them.
• Article shown on the front cover is always emphasised on the contents page.
• Props used - instruments
• Headings in different fonts - bigger, bolder.

DPS:

• Usually follows housestyle.
• Headings/titles stand out
• Banners used
• Usually small text - I want to make mine bigger.
• Not all the A4 pages are full of text
• Big images used of the band the article is about.
• Props used - instruments.