My Inspirational Text For My Double Page Spread

This is my inspirational text for my double page spread, it is from NME. I really liked it because I liked how the image takes up a whole side of this double page spread and the image really stands out and really attracts the reader. I wanted to try and create a similar look to my magazine with the image really dominating the article and drawing the reader in. I also really liked the font used for the pull quote so I used a similar font for the article masthead saying the artist's name. I also made sure my pull quote really stood out so I used black text on a white background the same as here which works really well and draws your eyes to it straight away.I set the article up in a similar way too with the columns and capitalized the first letter of the article too to make it look really professional.I was really happy with how my double page spread turned out and I think I applied lots of similar themes of this inspirational text to my work.

My Inspirational Text For My Front Cover

This is a front cover of Kerrang! I made my front cover look as much as this as possible as it is a similar style to what I wanted and is the same genre of music magazine. I've stuck to the same colour scheme of red , black and yellow as these are really bold colours and fit really with the theme of this genre. I put the masthead in the top third the same as the inspirational text. The puff is also placed in the top right third and along the top which is where it's found on similar rock magazines. I also put the layout of articles and images in a similar messy but neat layout the same as other popular rock magazines as the target audience like this style. The mode of address is direct to draw the attention of the reader in and this is what it is on the Kerrang! cover and it works really well.The extra info along the bottom third is in the same position and looks really similar to the one on the Kerrang! cover. I have tried to copy the themes and ideas of the inspirational text as well as I could as I knew it is really popular with my target audience.

November Time Management Update

In this month I didn't get loads done. I spent it trying to research into my genre a lot more to try and understand it a lot better and to try and identify what sub genres would work with my magazine the best after carrying out my audience research on current bands they like and after also looking at which bands are most popular in rock music magazines too. I also collected a lot of gig images and edited them so they were ready to use for my magazine as well. I got the following done:
- Carried out sub-genre research.
- Gathered up and edited concert images that I took.
- Analysed my target audience survey results again to check I didn't miss any important information.

Next month I need to get a little more work done so I want to start actually constructing my magazine. I need to decide on a final colour scheme, font styles and colours as well as deciding what final images to use as well.

Front Cover Feedback

After we finished making our front covers, everyone in the class gave each other feedback. It gave me an idea of what worked and what didn't and what I could have improved to help me in the future. This is the feedback that I received:

Researching My Sub Genre Further

Now I understand exactly what I can include in my magazine I need to look at popular, current music magazines to see who their target audience like being featured; this will give me ideas of who to write an article about. I googled what the most popular artists where in NME, Kerrang! and Rocksound, as they are my inspirational texts and here is the the top ten list for each magazine:

Kerrang                                               NME                               Rocksound

All Time Low                              Arctic Monkeys                        Green Day
You Me At Six                            Biffy Clyro                               Blink-182
Bring Me The Horizon                 The Strokes                              All Time Low
My Chemical Romance                Arcade Fire                               Nirvana                          
Biffy Clyro                                 Nirvana                                     Pierce The Veil
Nirvana                                      Foo Fighters                              Bring Me The Horizon
Green Day                                 Paramore                                   You Me At Six
Foo Fighters                               Kings Of Leon                           Paramore
Pierce The Veil                          Red Hot Chilli Peppers                Foo Fighters
Paramore                                   Kasabian                                   Biffy Clyro


I noticed that a lot of the same bands come up in all three magazines, they include; Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters, Paramore and Nirvana. This has gave me the idea of who I should write about for my double page spread or include on my contents page as these four bands are clearly really popular with my target audience. Other bands such as Green Day, All Time Low, You Me At Six, Pierce The Veil and Bring Me The Horizon all came up in two out of three of the magzines too so these bands would be good to write about too.

Concert Pictures

For my magazine I want to include some pictures on my front cover and contents page of live shows and they need to be original so they can only be pictures that I have took from live shows so these are the images I am using. I can use live pictures of bands such as Biffy Clyro, Green Day, All Time Low, Bring Me The Horizon etc. I have decided that it would be a good idea to include live gig photos as I found out that my target audience like going to gigs as hobbies, it's actually the most popular hobby within the target audience I surveyed so including gig pictures would be very appealing to them and they would probably enjoy looking at the photos. I have included these particular photos as they fit with the genre and are popular bands within this genre and also have included pictures of Leeds Festival because it was a very popular festival in my target audience survey.

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October Time Management Update

In this month I have managed to actually get more done than I planned. I initially wanted to focus on trying to build my understanding of my magazine up a lot more by looking into inspirational texts and also trying to complete my deconstructions but this month I have got the following done:
- Finished my contents page and double page spread deconstructions.
- Planned my photoshoot by setting a location (location scouting), emailing, messaging and texting models with a time, date and information on what to wear.
- Taking and editing my final images.
- Researching into elements such as poses, facial expression and makeup ideas for my shoot.
- I also made the time management schedule which is really keeping me on track.

In the next month I need to make sure that I remain on track or even keep ahead like this productive month as it creates time to help carry out further research and tweak my magazine.