Brief

Our brief is to create a music magazine cover, a contents page and a double page spread about a music genre of our choice.  Since I have started this AS course I have been looking and critiquing different music magazine covers and looking at how effective they are and how other covers are not as effective due to their layout, texts, fonts, colours etc...

I have also been looking at record labels and researching on the music industry so that I have some background knowledge on what I will be creating in the near future. By looking at different music magazine covers such as indie, pop, rock and classical magazine covers I have seen how some of the magazine covers may look similar with one another, whereas others such as a classical and a rock magazine are very different.

I enjoy listening to indie music and I also listen to pop and R&B. However, I enjoy listening to indie music more than R&B. I would say that the two music genres that I enjoy most are indie and pop. The reason as to why I am stating all of this is because the indie magazines and indie music recourses that I have looked at will help influence my music magazine cover, contents and double page spread. I also have good background information on the indie music industry and I know indie artists such as The Arctic Monkeys, The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club, Mumford and Sons, Jake Bugg and Bombay Bicycle Club.

Even though I have more of a flare for indie music, I also enjoy pop music as occasionally there are really good songs. I think that there is a gap in the market and feel as if, since I like pop and indie music, I could create an indie-pop magazine as I also know of a relatively new indie-pop band – The Vamps.