Monday, 20 October 2014

Intro to main task

Main task - the front page, contents, and double page spread of a new music magazine.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate. (minimum of 4 images per candidate.

Analysis x2 contents pages



Thursday, 16 October 2014

Wordle


Music magazine collage



Initial ideas
Genre
  • The genre of my music magazine will be Rock music.
  • This is a broad genre so I can include     many different artists of all the different subgenres of rock.
House style
  • Mature
  • Dark and some bright colours
  • Bold fonts
  • Consistent fonts
Typical content
  • Lists (top 100 etc.)
  • Interviews
  • New music
Audience (niche/mainstream)
  • More mainstream, but with a few specialized aspects
  • Teenager to young adult
  • 16 to late 20’s
Type of institution that might produce the magazine
  • Professional
  • Globally known
  • Also owning several other magazines
  • They have the money to pay for the interviews, and stories
Mode of address
  • Mostly informal
  • Some serious aspects
  • Chatty to engage the reader
Representation
  • Some mainstream values