Research: Future music front cover 7

This is the front cover from the magazine future music. It is issue 2010 from February of 2009.

The masthead
The masthead is in a bold serif font and is the largest thing located on the page naturally drawing the viewers attention as the White masthead and by line "Technique and technology
for making music" provides a contrast to the mainly black background. This issue also breaks convention as it has the masthead and by line being partly covered by one of the key boards on the front cover.

The puffs
There is two puff located on the front cover of this issue in the bottom left hand corner. Traditionally the puff serves the purpose of advertising something and drawing the viewers attention through either colours or little icons.

This issue follows that convention of advertising through brightly coloured puff's  by having their " top technique" advertised in a bright red background . This draws attention as the background of the front cover is in a mono colour colour ( black and white). Blumler and Katz stated that people read magazines to gain information and that is exactly what is going on here in the puffs as is says "Unleash your track's inner swing full tutorial PLUS audio on DVD".



The banner 
The banner is located at the top of the cover and serves many purposes it lets the viewer know that freebies come with this magazine for example . This issue's banner  also breaks convention of a normal magazine as the main article is " In the studio with chris lake" so instead of having that advertised on the front cover it is advertised in the banner. Since the genre of the magazine is technical equipment the reviews of the gar comes first.

Other articles
There are multiple articles that are advertised on the front cover such as the exclusives and their in depth test of pro tools 8. These serve two purposes they work to advertise the issue but also try to grow the audience of the magazine, currently it is 18+ and designed for people who have an intrest in making music but by including articles such as reviews of software and tutorials  they can try to grow their audience it be more appealing to the everyday viewer.

The article advertisement  draw attention to themselves  through the colour schemes such as red and white and red and black. These colours provide a contrast and draw the viewers eyes.

How this has influenced me
This has given me ideas on what colour schemes would help me draw the viewers attention to a certain part of my magazine and has also given more ideas on how I can use puff's.