Music Magazine Cover

To create my music magazine front cover I needed to look at some existing covers to help give me ideas on what to put on my front cover for my magazine. 

• On this front cover, the first thing I noticed that was good was the title or masthead. It had the usual block capitals, boldness and large font size to make it stand out and be the first thing the reader sees and reads. However it is also in an interesting font that suits the genre of music the magazine's for. This makes the text seem less plain and more original. i would like to use this on my cover because I think it makes the front cover and the masthead look more interesting. 
• Another thing I like on this cover is the text going across the width of the page saying the bands name. the colour of it fits with the background image, contrasting with the red of the singers hair. it is also in the usual bold, block capital style. I would like to use this on my cover because it stands out to the reader and catches their eye.

• On this cover I liked the photograph, which wasn't just a plain one in the back ground, the people were over lapping the title masthead making it look more professional and better. I would like to use this on my cover because it makes the whole cover look a lot better and more professionally done.
• I also like how they changed the colour scheme to suit the picture, the first one had a lot of colour so they used colours to match that, this one had less so they used white and black with a bit of colour to suit it. I will use this on my cover as it would look a lot better than having colours that didn't match and make it more appealing. 
• Something I didn't like on this was the texts in yellow. They didn't really suit the colour scheme of the cover. I will make sure not to do this as having colours that don't work with the colour scheme would make my whole cover look worse. 

• What i like on this cover is the font they used on the masthead. It's not the usual block writing, it's thinner but still has the same effect. This makes it look different from other magazines and more professional, I might want to do this as it makes the cover look better. 
• Another thing I liked was how they put their short masthead in. since it was only "Q" they put it in a box to make it stand out and justified it to the right, I like the way this looks on the magazine and it is clearly also useful for giving the pictures more room, I might want to consider this for mine, even if it is not as short as one letter I could possible make it work.
• Something I didn't like on here was the layout of most of the text. It fits the picture well but it also made the page look like it had a lot of empty space. This made it look slightly worse in my opinion. I want to try and avoid this if I can.