Music Magazine - Double page spread

This is my double page spread for my music magazine 'The Scene'. The double page spread is set out with the title in bold black font. This setting is what makes up the whole two pages, black on white is a simple setup that makes it easy for the font to be read while also making the black stand out which helps to make it more eye catching for the reader. The font is also a bold and plain which makes it easier to read. These are both traits that a magazine aimed at an older audience would normally have.

Photos

Before I made my music magazine I went to some gigs where I took pictures of two different singers. The first two are of a singer called Billy Lunn who played at the square in Harlow. The second is a woman called Laura Mary Carter who I saw play at astoria in London. Both sets of pictures work well as they are from live gigs which help represent the raw nature of this genre music and the magazine.

nature magazines

Before we did either task, we made nature magazines which were purposely for the purpose of getting used to things like photoshop.

Preliminary Task

My preliminary task, like previously mentioned in my blog, was a school magazine. These are the photos from that magazine:

Q Magazine presentation

Following on from my research into music magazines we had to make a powerpoint presentation based on a magazine that we hadn't previously looked at. As I had already done NME, I chose to do Q magazine. In my powerpoint I looked at the basic history of the magazine and things like their selling figures today. Above are some of the slides from this presentation

Friday 6th March

During this lesson we were told about the criteria that we had to follow for taking the pictures for our music magazines. The pictures had to be our own original material. We got the basic ideas of what our pictures needed to look like and then we got some time at the end of the lesson to start planning out the front cover and the picture layout.

Thursday 5th March

We had to go down to the computer room (E3) for this lesson to make a PowerPoint presentation on a music magazine. The presentation had to be on a magazine that we hadn't previously looked at which meant i couldnt do NME so i did Q magazine instead. The presentation had to show the basic structure of Q magazine, so i mentioned things like their circulation and readership figures and explained things like who set it up and why and how they got the name Q.