Music Magazine Moodboards

In this collage, existing music magazines of J-pop, K-pop and Anime music magazines are presented.
The central images are positioned mostly in mid to close up shots. The magazines that features anime central images creates costumes and props that seem surreal because it creates a fantasy and creative effect while those magazines that feature people and bands has costumes which creates the image of perfection and an ideal model for the target audiences because the audience makes these people their role models.
The cover creates a representation of beauty being the most important thing. It creates the a sense of perfection and idealism. This shows that music magazines like these aim to have perfection inside out and these is what makes them appealing to the target audiences.
I observed that most of these magazines used white backgrounds which shows simplicity and brings more focus on the central image of the magazine. The colours used are also vibrant and uses the colour scheme of white, pink, blue and red. The font style are mostly in bold and in very creative font which uses neon colours that can attract the audience.
The types of articles that were presented are band music updates, fashion, new music articles and biographies of the featured models.

These are the potential music magazine covers that could be a template for my own music magazine. Since J-pop and K-pop magazines had always used white backgrounds for the magazine, I think it would be wise to use a more vivid colour for the backgrounds as I think colours that stand out more in the UK are those with eye-catching colour.
The central images are constructed mostly in mid and close up shots which gives the audience the idea of how the models look and what they are wearing. The costumes that was used in magazines that both featured anime and people are mostly what we see in today's fashion - chic, stylish, modern and creative. This shows that even the anime-featured magazines reflect how people of today dress up. The overall representation that the magazines is a creation of realistic perfection but creates the idea of something dreamy and imaginary.
The colours used are vibrant and vivid and set the colour scheme of yellow, pink, red and black. The font style of the title block are generally bold and are stylish.