Main Task

For my main task I am going to produce a music magazine cover, contents and double page spread. I am going to be taking particular interest in looking at magazines such as ‘Q’ and ‘NME’ as they are aimed at the sort of music I like to listen to.

For my main task, I have to make sure I have spent a long time thinking about what sort of music magazine I am going to do, there are many different genre’s I can chose from such as:

• Rock
• Pop
• Rap
• R’n’B
• Indie
• Classical
• Metal
• Techno
• Jazz

I am going to have to research into each type of genre to make sure I have a good understanding into each one, although I believe I know what kind of music I am going to do, I am going to do Indie. This is because it is my favourite type of music and I also have many ideas in terms of a front cover image and story. I need to have a think about what the conventional features of the indie music scene are, I believe them to be something like:

• Casually Dressed
• Rough looking
• Sex, drugs, smoking
• Guitars

Indie is very much a British based music scene, which is one of the reasons this music takes a lot if interest to me as I could play a huge emphasis on British culture mixed a lot with the indie music. My target audience is going to be around 16 and over males, as I think the majority of women wouldn’t take to this music as there are hardly any, if any bands/singers that play to this type of music. It is very much a male oriented music scene. Britain is very much famous for his indie music; it has over 10 ‘indie’ cities. This is most notably because of the bands which have come out of those cities. I am going to have to do a lot of research into indie music to improve my knowledge of it so I know exactly what I want to have on the cover. Indie music has many similar types of music, such as ‘house’ and ‘Rock n roll’, I could use them in my magazine as they are probably going to interest my target audience because I predict they aren’t going to be interested in just one type of music. I will need to research many magazines to take a look at a range of images to see what camera shots, lighting, props etc. are used.