Magazine Analysis

Analysis of two music magazine covers

NME

Here you can see NME magazine with Brendon Flowers on the front cover posing with attitude. Mainly the middle picture of him shows slight attitude, the other two are summery and bright seeing as he’s wearing shades and a t shirt. Finally this magazine is indie/rock and is perfect to base my own magazine around.

VIBE

Compared to the magazine above, this magazine shows real attitude, more so than the above NME magazine. You can obviously see this in several ways. The fact the biggest mainstream rapper and singer Eminem is on the front cover says it all really. Arms crossed, no smile and a glare staring directly at the camera face on shows a mean attitude. Also the red and black masthead is almost like blood dripping down from a black rotten corpse. Finally, the tattoos on his arms indicate he is a bit of a gangster and a rebel. This magazine is perfect for basing my own magazine around due to these reasons. 

Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy

The Kooks - Naive

Typical indie band called The Kooks.

Diary blog – Lesson 3

In today’s lesson I have researched into some magazine photos and general band photography using Google images to try and get an idea of the types of images I could use. I came to the conclusion that I want an aspect of attitude for my magazine front cover. I mainly looked at NME Magazine and Q magazine for this research. I looked at the bands U2 and Oasis to help me figure out what posture and pose I want my friends to pose as. Attitude seems to be a great idea. I would mainly want them to pose with no smile, maybe have a guitar in there hands and trendy topman styled clothing. Most of my friends dress indie so this wont be too hard to conduct. I have a gig on the 24^th of January 2011 where I can grab some live band images and useful photography. Finally, I will need to take my photography by the end of the month and get my front cover finished and published. 

Student Magazine reflection.

My student magazine was based on a typical college/uni magazine and was really simple to create. I used Photoshop to develop a final outcome, which were a front cover and a contents page.

I think my magazine as a whole was a success but I could have maybe improved on certain areas such as:

·      Maybe choose a different colour scheme, like use better colours as I think mine are too bold and simple.

·      Choose different text for the contents page

·      The affect of my picture could have been better. I should have used some other image instead of the one I chose. I wasn’t too fond of the image I used.

The things I liked about my magazine were the following:

·      I liked the colour scheme although I thought it was simple, it fitted in well with the college ethos and colour scheme of bright blue and green.

·      I also liked the layout of the contents page as its more interesting than having a boring and simple layout.

Finally, as a whole. I would safely say that my magazine was a great success. The changes I would make aren’t drastic but maybe I could use these ideas for the music magazine and think more in depth about the layout, colours and fonts.

This is a front cover of NME magazine showing the return of the band Pulp. It is a typical indie rock magazine which has attitude aspects to it. For example, the way he is posing with his upper lip open as if he is looking for a fight and also the way his scruffy clothes are open shirt and sleeves. He is also sticking two fingers up which suggests attitude. Two fingers up come from the English war against the french hundreds of years ago when the english would shoot the fingers off enemy soldiers and then show them the two finger pose to suggest ''look we still have our fingers''. Finally, i would like to think my magazine will look something similar to this, one person posing with attitude.

Lesson 2

Today we researched into different music magazines and tried to find the magazine names that fit the genre of our own magazine. My genre is indie rock and roll so NME and Q proved to be the best for this. I also finished my magazine proposal and any other outstanding work.

Introduction

Welcome to my music magazine blogspot. I have created this blog to make life easier for myself and to have all my work on one page for everyone to see and share with there friends. Hopefully you will be influenced by my works..... I have to create a front cover, back cover and a double page spread as well as a contents page for my own magazine design based the indie/alternative genre of music, kind of like NME magazine, this will most certainly be my influence.

Music magazine genres and sub genres

This is my music genre list that i created in microsoft word. This was completed in my second lesson last year. I have chosen the indie/alternitave genre for my magazine as a whole. I have decided this simply because it is my favorite genre and I dress like an indie/alternative person through influence of celebrities.

MUSIC MAGAZINE