Colour Palette (add pictures!)

Colour schemes are a very important feature of magazines. Colour schemes suggest the magazine is very professional, organised and well put together. They can also indicate to the reader what gender the magazine may be tailored towards, or what mood the magazine wants to portray or want their audience to feel whilst reading the magazine. It can also suggest the time of year the magazine was released, darker colours such as burgundy or plum are seen as quite autumnal.  After viewing opera magazines it is quite apparent that there is usually a clear colour scheme or even a subtle one but there is still one apparent.

Clearly the colour scheme of this ‘OperaNow’ magazine is white and red, and I have also identified a white and red theme with a more recent edition of this magazine brand. (The November 2014 issue). Opera is renowned for being a very sexual and about love and romance, and this can be further shown in the abundance of red shown on the magazine cover.

‘OperaNow’ is a very big brand of opera magazine and the colour scheme is orange and purple. This is clearly to match with the orange on the models dress. The bold, bright and clashing colours could demonstrate that vibrancy of the woman’s voice and the intensity that opera can present. It also shows the modern twist that recent opera can show.

The colour scheme of this magazine is a vibrant violet and white colour. The texture of the model’s dress is a lightweight floaty material, which has also been reflected in the background of the magazine. This may show that the woman’s voice is very soft and gentle. Or it could be to show the softer side of opera.

For my magazine I will trial a few different colour schemes for the feelings I want to portray through it. Many opera magazines have a red colour scheme because of the love/sexual connotation that colour presents, I will try a red colour because I feel that it accurately shows what opera is about and the way in which the songs are sung. I will also try a dark blue, almost a midnight blue, because this is also romantic and I feel this romantic feel completely surrounds opera and highlights what it’s all about. It also set the mood for the rest of the magazine. Also the darkness of it can indicate some sort of mystery about it and means the audience cannot simply expect what’s to come from the magazine. Lastly I will perhaps again try almost a neutral theme using very natural and earthy theme using natural and earthy colours. To show the purity of the voice in opera, and it’s almost symbolic like I am stripping opera down to get the rawness. To demonstrate these different types of colour schemes I will use the same image and just change the colour, and centre the cover of the magazine around the one specific colour so we can then analyse which would be a suitable option.