Magazine Draft

Comparing Images

My first image and the image I imitated

I used this image to inspire my magazine front cover. This image of the reflection in the mirror suggests different personalities and perceptions of the artist, which may influence the context of the interview included in the magazine.

My second image and the image I imitated

I then used this image of a woman playing a saxophone to imitate to show that the featured artist is not only a vocalist but plays a musical instrument, as there is only an image of the featured artists face.

My third image and the image I imitated

I also edited an image to make it a silhouette of the featured artist playing the saxophone. This edit was inspired by this image of a woman playing the saxophone as a silhouette.

Questionnaire

I created a questionnaire to see what genre of music people liked and fearures they look for in a music magazine. The information i collected from this questionnaire helped influence my music magazine, as it gave me an idea of the different images and features I shud include in the magazine to entice the reader into purchasing my magazine and enjoying it. I asked specific questions which would influence the final result of my music magazine.

Moodboard

My original genre of music form my magazine was nu rave/electro pop. For this I planned to use very colourful and contrasting clothes and unusual poses when taking my pictures. This is why I included various models and artist, who don't sing the same genre of my magazine, but have a similiar fashion sense. I did however, include artist that do sing the genre of music.

After some research, I thought I would change my moodboard and genre of music to jazz. This is because I think jazz is not a very common genre of music and is very rare to produce a music magazine completely based on jazz in. In this moodboard I included modern jazz artists such as Amy Winehouse and Paloma Faith. I also included instrument typically related to jazz and models with a vintage image to represent wen jazz was most popular and modern.

Preliminary Research

The magazine I chose to look at was NME, which is a music magazine of the genre rock/indie. The magazine follows the same basic design which is continuously used for each issue. The title is situated in the top left hand corner is brightly coloured read to catch the attention of the customer. Another element of the front cover used to attract buyers is the centre image. This image is of the featured artist and also correspond with the masthead which is situated boldly to the left of the image, under the NME title. Puffs are also included on the front cover of the magazine to promote what features are included within the magazine.

This will help me in future when i create my music magazine as i can look at the cover and the layout and try to make mine similar to it so it looks more real. I listed the barcode, puffs, masthead, title of magazine, main article image, price and subheading. This is because I would be including these features on my magazine so that it looks like a real published magazine.

CONTENT ANALYSIS

Page 1
- Band index
- Date
- Contents [also mentions if it was on the front cover]
- Contents subtitles [e.g. news, radar, reviews, live and features]
- Offer on next issue of magazine
- Image of featured artist

Page 2-3
- ‘10 tracks you have to hear this week’
- Images of the artist mentioned
- Short review on each artist and their recent progress in their career

Page 4-5
- Masthead – ‘world exclusive interview!’
- Large image of Julian Casablancas
- Big heading of a quote
- Short article on the artist and his recent plans and decisions
- Editors name
- Photographers name

Page 6-7
- Interview with the featured artist – Julian Casablancas
- Images of the artists solo trailer
- Images of other artist and separate captions
- Short review on the featured artist’s new album and two of their singles.

After looking at all the advertisements and overall composition included in the magazine, it suggests this magazine is targeted at a younger generation that are mainly males. This becomes apparent as most, if not all, the advertisements featured in the magazine are aimed at males; adverts such as men’s hair products, deodorant and masculine alcoholic drinks. Other adverts can be aimed at both males and females, such as new mobile phones and their features, and also upcoming albums. Other features which may interest both genders in the magazine is upcoming gigs and concert information. This supports the target audience’s interests of a younger generation, mainly males, interested in a specific genre of music.