Research - Planning of cast, props, setting and location

whilst doing some basic research on the layout of magazine covers, i realised that the majority of the time, studio set up is used for the imagery. i looked at several magazine covers and noticed this was used, to gain more white space for the use of texts around the Silohet of the model's body.
Generally magazine covers also use no more than 3 colour's for the text, and usually have them corrosponding with the subheadings or pull quotes. I will therefore not use more than 3 colours for my font's and use a studio set up with one main model featured for my music magazine, in which my model on my main cover will be the feature of my double page article spread in the same way as my NME research of My Chemical Romance.