The Generic content of my music magazine ranges from alternative, electro and techno to alternative, indie and acoustic. Because the main genres of music in my magazine are lively and upbeat and when you think of bands of these genres the majority connote bold, bright and lively colours. I took influences from an NME magazine and was inspired by the layout of the contents page, however I did challenge the theme of a set of colours used, i.e. for NME they use black red 
and white, where as there isn’t much of a colour scheme, just that they’re complimentary, bold colours and I’ve used different fonts and styles for different topics in the article etc., however, for the house style I stuck with alternating colours of blue and purple which links to the title containing the same tone blue, by placing this behind the model it shows that the viewers of the magazine are well aware of its distinct style. I chose the name Vibes which is abbreviated from 'vibrations' which denotes 'a general emotional feeling one has from another person, place or thing' vibrations also can connote high volume and the beat and feeling of the music which I think well reflects what type of magazine this is. This article doesn’t really have any formal elements to it, the details such as the ripped stickers, images which are rough around
the edges and the lack of obvious clean cut organisation, in my double page spread I used left justification which resulted in a ragged right hand side but still a gutter which clearly defines the columns, I still stuck to the general rule of thirds in my layout of images and positioning of my contents. I believe I’ve created a magazine which appropriately fills a niche in the market. The style and language of my magazine is informal, telling us it’s designed for a younger audience, I think my magazine is appropriate in filling a gap in the market because although it covers similar things to ‘Kerrang!’ and ‘NME’ in the contents of what is written it doesn’t cover or focus on the same genres.
and white, where as there isn’t much of a colour scheme, just that they’re complimentary, bold colours and I’ve used different fonts and styles for different topics in the article etc., however, for the house style I stuck with alternating colours of blue and purple which links to the title containing the same tone blue, by placing this behind the model it shows that the viewers of the magazine are well aware of its distinct style. I chose the name Vibes which is abbreviated from 'vibrations' which denotes 'a general emotional feeling one has from another person, place or thing' vibrations also can connote high volume and the beat and feeling of the music which I think well reflects what type of magazine this is. This article doesn’t really have any formal elements to it, the details such as the ripped stickers, images which are rough around
the edges and the lack of obvious clean cut organisation, in my double page spread I used left justification which resulted in a ragged right hand side but still a gutter which clearly defines the columns, I still stuck to the general rule of thirds in my layout of images and positioning of my contents. I believe I’ve created a magazine which appropriately fills a niche in the market. The style and language of my magazine is informal, telling us it’s designed for a younger audience, I think my magazine is appropriate in filling a gap in the market because although it covers similar things to ‘Kerrang!’ and ‘NME’ in the contents of what is written it doesn’t cover or focus on the same genres.
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