Rock music developed during the late 1960' in the U.K and U.S.A. By the late 1960's sub genres of rock had emerged; blue rock, folk rock, country rock, jazz rock fusion, glam rock, punk rock and many others.
Very popular Rock bands and singers were The Rollings Stones, the Beatles and ACDC. These days there are not many rock artists around as the main genre is pop and R&B, but the most popular rock artists nowadays are Greenday, Pink and Kings of Leon. the genre of rock has a wide range of types of rock music and so have a broad range to work with when it comes to my magazine.
One popular magazine is Q.
This magazine is a perfect example for the rock genre as it uses a black and white with red colour scheme. The photo gives of a 'sexy' yet scary and powerful feel which is an important aspect that i should consider if i were to include Women on my magazine this will then appeal more to the male population. The Masthead is large and so attention is drawn to it, also the subheadings are scattered around the page detailing what can be found inside the magazine. The subtitles that really catch the readers eye is '3 words Cheryl Cole Rocks' the font gets bigger and so the main word you are drawn to is Rocks, which is good as it supports the image and genre that Cheryl Cole is portraying.
Another magazine that is a great example of a rock magazine is Kerrang. Here the Girl in the picture is using a hand gesture that represent rebellion, which is very important in rock music, this magazine follows a lot of the conventions of a music magazine, for example the masthead is distorted by the image and the subheadings explain what is inside, along with it there are pictures, there is also a free bee inside, this is a tool used to entice readers into buying the magazine.
The colour scheme used here is similar to the magazine above as the scheme is black and white, however this magazine has orange added to it, this colour scheme is most probably continued inside.
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