Music Magazine - Contents and double page spread

My contents page is much more complex and colourful. I made sure to use a minimal amount of fonts, to keep a theme ongoing from the cover other than the colours. I have used two of my own images, and kept the style simplistic, yet not so mch as to be boring. If I had a chance to improve the work I would make sure to include more space for extra images and more page outlines.




For my double page spread, I decided to keep the theme simplistic, as I wanted to have a substantial amount of text in the interview. Due to this, I only used a plain white background, which I think works effectively.

Music Magazine - Front Cover

My music magazine has changed a lot over the time I've worked on it,



In the first draft, it was a lot more basic, as I had few titles and a non edited picture.



For my final draft, I have added titles to make sure the page is not empty, but not too many as for it to be busy. I included boxes with slight opacity to vary the presentation and focused the composition around the empty space in the photograph used for the background.

Music Magazine - Photography

I took quite a large amount of photos for my Magazine, as I wanted to make as many of them as possible my own.

I took part in a couple of photoshoots with my friend, Megan, and we both took images for our Media coursework. These images were taken with a white background for editing purposes as it made sure that the images looked studio based, and were not too visually noisy. Some of the unedited images I took follow.

Music Magazine - Pencil drafts

Music Magazine - Audience research

I used survey monkey to construct an easily accesible questionnaire for my music magazine, and recieved 26 participants' results.

The questionnaire can be found here.

Due to my not having a premium account, I could only ask ten questions, but that was more than enough to gather the results I need.

I want my magazine to be based on rock music, so my questions were based on this. Following are my results to the survey:

Due to the results of this question, I have decided to call my magazine Shredder.

Music Magazine - Reader Profile

AGE: 15-25

GENDER: Unisex, but mainly male

MUSIC TASTE: Mainstream rock - pop rock, punk, alternative, screamo

CLOTHING/STYLE: Alternative, Punk

VALUES AND BELIEFS: Music matters most – support the artists. the music created, not the image and fame.

PERSONALITY: Varied possibilities from shy and introvert, to loud and extrovert depending on the individual. A method of helping those more worried about sharing their interests (due to common problems) to find others similar.

HOBBIES: Music orientated activities – gigs, playing, listening, creating

HATES: Conformity, Mainstream music, Idealism

SHOPS: Mostly online, alternative and less well known brands such as Criminal Damage, Masked Clothing and Dead Heroes Clothing. Band merchandise

FOOD AND DRINK: Energy drink and other unhealthy things.

Music Magazine - Analysis of similar texts

In the image above, I have analysed multiple magazines, including their layout, target audience and whether they are mainstream or not. I've found most of the magazines that cover rock music appear to be independant.



Kerrang! is a well known rock magazine, which along with Rock Sound takes the lead role in the publicity of the rock music industry.
They clearly know the popularity and how recognised their magazine is, and so have no problem with covering part of their logo with the musician's image.
The front cover has a very minimal colour scheme, only using red black and white, in addition to the skin tones