Research and Analysis

The title "Rock Sound" is very simple, written in bold letters and white colour and implies that the magazine contains material regarding the Rock genre of music. The colours used are white, black and neutral beige shades. The cover shows a band ; the tattooed frontman holding a guitar and rest of the band members have a very grim expression on their faces.
The image imbues into the mind of the reader that the main feature of the magazine must be revolving around the band.  The conventional colour of Rock music is black and hence it has been predominantly used to reinforce the genre on the reader's mind.
The font style is very simple unlike those used in Pop magazines. The main feature of the magazine "TRIVIUM: The crusade for good and evil"  has been written in bold letters so as to draw the attention of the reader. Moreover, it can be seen that the magazine features bands including Deftones, In Flames, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance etc. The font size is relatively smaller than the one used for highlighting the main feature.

The title "Zillo" once again has been written in large font and the font color is different than the one used for rest of the text on the cover. This magazine cover shows Ville Valo, -Goth rock band H.I.M's frontman- puffing on a cigarette and this reinforces the conventions of the Rock genre that Rock Stars are in the habit of consuming drugs and are usually heavy drinkers and chain smokers.
 Use of black, red and white color. "H.I.M." has been written in large font and it definitely delivers the message to the reader that the main cover story revolves around the band since the main image on the magazine is also of the band's frontman. The bar code has been placed on the top right section of the magazine cover. Since I chose rock genre as the theme of my foundation production project, I made up my mind that the model on my magazine cover would be holding a cigarette as well. This is a very simply magazine cover and it strictly follows the conventions of Rock genre.

Font:
Kerrang is a very renowned music magazine and deals specifically with news related to the Rock genre. In this particular cover, it is pretty apparent that the conventions of the respective genre have been followed.
Firstly, the title is written in bold and black font. The alphabets have been given the effect as if they have been cracked and this is in line with the tagline "Life is loud". Moreover, the font colours for the main cover story are different but again, bold colours have been used, symbolizing the bold and loud culture of Rock music.  The main colours used are pink, white, black and yellow (Bold colours).
Layout:
The title has been place on the top of the cover. The title of the main cover story has been placed in the center, so as to draw the reader's attention towards it. The pictures are also related to the main cover story.
At the bottom of the cover, names of several other bands have been mentioned and it shows that the magazine also features all these bands. Above the names, there is a bar code, which is always present on magazine covers.
The design is very simple. Photos of different musicians have been used to create a pattern and this gives the magazine cover a very professional look.