Genre

I decided that the genre I am going to do for my music magazine would be rock, which would concentrate on mainly rock/indie music. I chose this because it is one of the genres that I am actually interested in. I will research magazines such as: NME and Kerrang! .

Music Magazine - The Beginning ;D

As part of my AS Level media coursework, I have to design a front cover, contents page, and double page spread for a music magazine of any genre that I want. I am using this blog to record how I create my magazine.

This is the mock up of my contents page, I left a fairly big space at the top of this page for an image of the Isle of Man college to go in, as I think that it would be suitable, and from this image it would be easy to see who the target audience would be; being students/parents of the college. The text 'Contents', then comes directly under this image so that it is clearly visable. Then the text appears on the left hand side of the page, I thought this would be the best lace to put it as we read left to right. Next to the text is several images that would relate to the text.

I changed the font in this and also had to change the colour of the font of the mast head to black so it could be seen clearly, as I had changed the top of my magazine from black to shades of blue and green. I used these colours as they are neither masculine or feminine so would suit both genders, also the girl I used in my image is wearing these colours too. I added a yellow strip to my magazine to symbolise the college, and also to add more colour to it. I think that my magazine now looks a lot more brighter so more appealing.

I thought that my magazine front cover looked a bit too dull and dark, I believe that brighter or lighter colours would suit my target audience a lot more better, being teenagers in the college. I found out that yellow was a college colour, so I added a bit of this colour to my magazine to symbolize the college, I also added various shades of colour to my magazine to try and brighten it up a bit.

This is the first copy of my college magazine, however its not the final one, as I do not think the font I have used looks right for a magazine. I also want to change the layout a little bit to try and improve it.

I decided that an image with a plain background behind it would be the best to use, as it gives it space for things such as text to go there without spoiling the main image. I chose to use a female rather than a male as generally more females end up going to college and its usually females on magazines, so therefore would suit the audience more.