Researching music magazines :)

To start off my research I looked through search engine Google for music magazine's to take inspiration for my own ideas and to find the certain conventions of a typical music magazine, to make my seem realistic to it's target audience. I looked at a range of magazines such as Q, NME, Top of the Pops, Spin and Blender, which each discuss and represent different genres of music for different target audiences. Each magazine immediately shows a main image of the front of the page representing the music that it goes onto discuss later inside the magazine, this gives the reader an instant insight into the magazine and what is inside, drawing them into buying it almost straight away.

Looking at magazine examples to start off with really helps give me an impression of what my magazine product really needs to look like and include. Each magazine front cover stands out from the others in their own unique way, either by the logo such as Q which you can see on the left immediately captures your eye because of the bright red background and white capital 'Q'. This magazine is also linked with a music channel which makes the magazine more well known than many other magazines as it owns a channel which people can immediately associate with.

Starting off!

Basically my brief for this is to create a magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. It has to have all my own images within it and must be completed by the 4th of March. Also to add to this in my first lesson I have created a timeline of when I am going to complete each bit of work for my production and to what time it must be completed by as this will keep me more organized and not all over the place when it comes to the end of the deadline. As shown above this intro you can see my timetable clearly and when each piece of my production will be completed. I used Tom's planner to create this Gantt timeline so that I can keep track of all my tasks that I need to complete to make sure my production goes ahead without going over the deadline.