A style model for my music magazine

In the creation of my music magazine, I have had to think about the specific codes and conventions which would be applicable the a magzine in the genre I have chosen. To fully benefit from this and make my magazine look as professional as possible, I have used the magazine "mixmag - isuue March 2012". I have chosen this as my style model as I think that it not only fits my genre, but it also looks very unique. I haven't decided to emulate all the features shown on the magazine as this would take away the originality of my own, however there are specific features I am inspired by. Here is an image of my style model:

As you can see, the cover of this magazine is fairly simple, however this is effective as it is clear and very easy to read. In terms of the writing and font on the cover, I am going to emualte the style in which this magazine follows. My front cover image is fairly colourful which makes it difficult to insert text as it is unclear. If I do what the magazine does with the text (put it on a blackground and juxtapose the colours) then I believe that my magazine will look effective and professional. Similarly, I really like the composition of the text around the sides of the magazine. This would work well with my own as the border of my magazine is very clean and simple. The conventions (barcode, title, main image etc.) are not surprising for this magazine alhtough I do think that the top tagline (THE WORLD'S BIGGEST DANCE MUSIC AND CLUBBING MAGAZINE) looks bold and eyecatching. From research, I know that many magazines put important or interesting informaton and the top of their magazine as this is usually the first thing the buyer can see. Sometimes this aspect even entices the buyer to purchase the magazine. The final thing I think would work very well with my magazine is the puff near the topp of the page. In a way, I think that this would be a little too simple for my magazine which is why I think using an instrumental shape would be far more appealing and bolder.

To conclude, I believe that this is a very good style model for my magazine because it includes all of the relevant features and my target audience would really be attracted to the style of the magazine.