House Style...

NME: It uses a series of red, yellow, white and black that continues through the magazine. The way they have used this colour scheme on this copy is very bland and doesn’t seem very lively. I think there is too much blank space and too much white. It seems to obvious that the colour scheme is red and white, these two colours seem to over power the magazine and you don’t seem to notice the yellow and black so much.
 
 
 

PME:  This magazine has decided to go with a slightly different colour scheme to the normal conventional colours. The colours don’t seem to go very well together; however, the colour scheme is consistent throughout the magazine. The placing of text could have been chosen more carefully and I think the effects that have been used on the photographs don’t follow the codes and conventions of magazines.

Kerrang: Kerrang once again follows the conventional colour scheme of red, yellow, black and white. On this copy they have focused more on the black, white and yellow. Their layout is busy but they have organised it so it has some form of structure. Their uses of photographs are effective as they use them as backgrounds or place numerous photos to cover any blank space.

Real R’n’B: This magazine follows the conventional colours of red, yellow, white and black however the distortion of the photographs makes it less conventional. However, the layout of the magazine is good as it is busy and makes it seem like there is a lot going on in the magazine and that it is worth the money. But I have noticed that the page numbers are slightly too big.

Rolling Stone: Once again this follows the conventional colour scheme of red, yellow, black and white. This magazine focuses more on text than photographs and images. It seems to only place images if they relate to the text. The text suggest that its audience is the older male.

Conclusion: I would aim for the same type of layout and colour scheme that Kerrang uses as it seems the most powerful and its pretty close to the target audience that I am going for.