The second magazine that i chose to study eas the magazine "Rocksound". This magazine is also classed under the rock genre along with NME. Much like NME, Rocksound uses many devices such as font, colour, language and layout to draw in its readers. This magazine is diverse compared to the rest of the typical rock genre magazines. The colours of green yellow, clash with that of the modern colour scheme, which uses colours that are more usually associated with rock, such as black or red. This shows that this magazine is willing to break the mold of a stereotypical rock magazine, and start a new fresh trend.

Yet again the title of the magazine is located at the top of the page because the audience of this magazine reads left to right top to bottom so it is the first thing that they read. It is also the biggest font so yet again it grabs the readers attention. This draws us away from the articles at the very top of the page.
This magazine uses white writing on a black background to help make the main sells standout and grab our attention, this signifies the importance of these articles compared to others on the same page, as they are purposefully standing out. There is also another main sell cover part of the magazine name, this yet again signifies them breaking away from the more traditional magazines that they compete with, which subconsiously gives them there own unique defintition and identity. Yet this magazine does keep some sort of formality with the postioning and contrasting colours running along the left hand side of the magazine. It keeps a pattern of black yellow as far as colour scheme goes, and the layout of these sells is all in line and is easy on the eye.

The image used on the magazine is that of the band Muse. It is a traditional magazine cover picture, with them all looking directly at the camera, this shows the lack of emotion on the band's faces, so it doesn't distract us from the actual magazine. It also represents the type of people rockers are. They aren't portrayed as happy, smiley people, thus establishing it as a rock magazine. There are also smaller images on the front cover, that relate to other articles, this makes the magazine look busier, whick makes it look like its got more and better articles than that of rival magazines.