Original Brief.

Our task is to create our very own music magazine including a front cover, contents page and double page spread. It must follow a specific genre of our choice and must be targeted to a desired audience. I will use my blog to post any relevant research that will help me with the construction of my music magazine. I will analyse existing popular music magazines and their front covers, contents pages and double page spreads this will in turn help me to identify what it is that makes a music magazine sell and what doesn’t. The magazines which I choose to evaluate will be based on the genre that I decide to have my magazine based upon. By evaluating a number of magazines it will allow me to identify what is conventional for a music magazine and what aspects go against conventions and how either can benefit my music magazine or effectively ruin its reputation on the market. After collecting relevant information about existing music magazines, I will put together an audience survey which will help me to identify what my magazines audience will be like and what they want to see within my music magazine. The questionnaire will ask about the genre of the magazine, the magazines name, house colours etc. The questionnaire/audience survey will help me to create the requested music magazine for my audience. I will then put together a design brief based on all the research I have collected about the creation of a popular and successful music magazine which will help me to collect all of the information for when I construct the magazine. Finally before I begin making my music magazine, I will sketch out different ideas for my front cover, contents page and double page spread and out of the drawings I make I will choose the preferred one and keep to that design as much as I can making alterations as I go. Once I have completed my front cover, contents page and double page spread of my music magazine I will create a detailed evaluation that will include my thoughts and ideas when creating my music magazine and my reasons for creating the magazine in the way I did.