On the lower half columns go in rows on the right and left hand side. There are no photographs in these columns like in the Q magazine. The writing is in gold and white. Band names are in a bigger, capital, square font. The other writing is in a smaller neater cursive writing. I think this works better than with little pictures. It looks neater, and prettier.
The title of the magazine, ‘Classic Rock’ is written above the band. It is all written in the same font, only the word class being slightly smaller. The band each have members that overlap a letter in in the title. But this does now block out the writing and make it impossible to read like in Billboards magazine. This overlap makes the magazine look good.
The magazine has a small banner at the top of the magazine. It advertises the free CD coming with it. The CD is of he features band and this further attracts the audience into buying the magazine. This banner works well with encouraging an audience to buy the magazine.
White, gold and beige are used throughout the front cover. On the font, on the border of the boxes, and on decorating other areas of the boxes. It is a good, and attracting style, and it would make sense if these colours were repeated throughout the magazine, or at least on a few pages. However this colour theme is never used again in the magazine. Nor is it a similar style on other issues of classic rock magazine. The only repeated thing on this magazine, as in other issues is the title ‘Classic Rock’ is a rather plain font with two stars around it. This makes the magazine harder than necessary to recognise from issue to issue. Overall, the colour theme on this magazine looks good, but the designers should seriously consider getting a consistent colour scheme, like the magazine Q the constantly uses the colour red.
Contents:
The contents page is simple. The page is white, it features a black and white photograph of the member that fades. It contains the contents the contents, and a quote. However the font the writing is using is not the same as what was used on the cover. Neither are the colours. The contents use red writing, and have a red circle featured like it is their main colour scheme. On the front cover there is only one red circle in the top corner, and this seemed to go only with the red background. Although this page works by it’s self, it does not work with the whole magazine.
The page features a quote from one of the band members. “It’s like a Cinderalla story...” Although with first glance this may just seem like any ordinary quote, whatever the bands story is, I don’t think they’ve seen disney Cinderella, let alone heard the original. It’s just I am doubting that these people were forced, 24 hours a day to clean their step mothers house, and it is highly improbable that each of these band members have two ugly step sisters. Although the quote does look good where it is placed, and it does make the contents look good, I think another quote would have worked as equally well, if not better.
Double Page Spread:
The spread uses two main different photographs. Like in the Q magazine. However the photos here are both exactly the same size. The text areas do not allow for a slightly bigger or smaller photo. This makes photographs look like they are merging into each other. This does not look good. It makes the page look crushed, and uncomfortable.
There is a framed image of a band member playing a guitar. The frame is digital. It looks like there is rust on it, and there is a shadow effect used on it. The other two images are not frames in such a style. The image does no look well place. It is centred with text away from it. It just overlaps the other image. This makes the small image the centre of attention, which it should not be on a double page spread. Because of this I do not think this image works well.
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