Typography Visual Moodboard

Here is a mood board of all the types of mastheads used in a variety of music magazines. The conventions which I was able to visualise were that three basic colours, black, red and white, have been used consistently. I also saw that mastheads linked with rock music were plain black and the serif in these mastheads were exaggerated a lot. Whereas, the mastheads for pop magazines were far more eye-catching, although serif was not exaggerated. Many of these fonts have been manipulated for example most of the mastheads related to the pop genre are big in size and kind of imitate a bubble or the image of a bubble 'popping'. They are also full of colour to catch the target audiences' attention. However, mastheads linked to the genres of R&B, Indie e.t.c are usually a plain colour like black and are bold. Most rock music magazines on the other hand, have shadows behind them and are usually bold and underlined. The mastheads linked to rock or heavy metal music have the serif exaggerated in most places whereas other fonts don't. This way I was able to see the conventions and I can use these in my own magazine. I could look at more pop music magazine mastheads to give me an idea of what kind of masthead I will need to construct to attract my audience.