BLACK, RED, WHITEThese colours are used on the most famous

inidie rock magazine called Q, it is also repeated on NME, and other genres of music. It is a classic and simple colour theme as the red really is bold and makes it stand out. In most magazines you would find that they do used black and white throughout as they are the consistent colours, however they are sometimes not really classed as a colour to the colour theme. Most magazines do stick to the three colours for their colour scheme as black and white are not counted in this. The red certainly would give my magazine a hard hitting edgy and rock feel as red is a powerful colour which enhances its fierceness and anger, which is presented in my genre. However this colour is definitely over used as it has also been used a lot in other genre magazines such as Vibe, and XXL. This is because red is such a versatile colour in which it can be used to represent other genres which then make it unclear to my audience. So I do not think that red would be a suitable colour to use as it is already overused.

YELLO, BLUE, WHITE, BLACK The colour theme of this is very different to

what I have seen in existing magazines. However it came up to be the most popular in my questionnaire. I chose the colour yellow because it was one of the main colours in which Kerrang magazine had used for their brand to be associated with. Because the three colours of yellow, black and white and so familiar if I were to add this in, then it could infact reinforce my genre as people would associate this with Kerrang. I then wanted to add in another colour to make it slightly stand out and thought that blue would be a good choice. As yellow and blue both contrast with each other and make the other stand out. Blue is associated with the gender male, which is a large target of my audience, it is also more of a masculine colour which does represent rock to be very bold and strong.

However I do feel that the yellow would be too bright for the blue and back to work with and make it look slightly kiddie and tacky.

PURPLE, BLACK, WHITE

These three colours go together really well, as they are all dark colours. The purple represents the power and royalty with the black and white on either side would be like good and evil, pure and dark. I feel if were to use purple it may give the wrong impression as not many rock magazines actually use the colour purple as their theme, it is most popular with the rap and R&B genre. It would be too much of a pop and girlie colour to use as the main theme.

I do consider its strong points however do not feel that it would help me to reinforce my genre of music as well as I wanted to.

BLACK, RED, YELLOW, WHITE

Again I have used the colour red and yellow to trail the black and white colours. Because red has already been a well known popular and bold colour, by adding a softer yellow, contrasts with it making it clash at times however also standing out. They go well together because all four colours show a hard hitting, bold, edgy rock theme which would convey my magazine.

However the colours do seem a bit bright to go with each other and may end up clashing a lot of the time. This could be a problem as it may look un professional and tacky.

BLACK, GREEN, GREEN, WHITE

Picking out the colour green does not seem like a rock kind of colour as it seen as pretty earthy and to do with nature. However I have seen it been used on Kerrang. A lot of magazines have a three basic colour theme that is presented throughout the whole magazine, however on the front cover there is an additional one which changed every time depending on the season or topic.

Green does represent new things and a fresh start as my magazine is about new music it could be a metaphor for that. It is not used in any other genre however could be mistaken for folk and country music so I may have t stay away from using too much green in my magaizne.

BLUE, BLACK, WHITE, BLUE

I then thought about taking away the yellow and adding different shades of blue, because I have seen this been done in previous rock magazines as it does give off the vibe I want it to. Espishily as my issue is dedicated to a band called the Ocean’s Eyes there will definitely be a lot of pun in that, associating it with the ocean and sea, as well as a special edition issue. The colours do seem a bit more water like than rock however they are strong bold and show that this magazine is not anything else but rock. There are no bright soft colours which oozy it down and make it subtle, as a lot of other genres do.

This is one of my most strongest colour theses as it will link in with my feature story as well as a good theme for my magazine overall.