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Front Cover

This is my front cover page which i will use for my magazine, in order to improve this page i need to include a price and some more colour as the magazine is very black and white and needs to present a more happy uplifting mood.

I think i could incorporate this image into the front cover to brighten it up and add a more indie style to the page to make the genre more balanced.

  

Semantic Field

Cool


Unique 


Dark


Exciting


Rock


Groovy


Different

Intertextuality

Artist influenced by many bands ... The Kooks, Razorlight,Rihanna,Adele

Artists enjoys attending indie festivals regularysuch as Brownstock festival,V-festival.

Artists shops at Urban outfitters,Topshop vintage shops, london boutiques.

Artists hobbies include;playing various instruments such as guitar,banjo and drums.

Artist uses Twitter, Bebo ,Facebook and Myspace to promote their music as well as having their own youtube account.

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The pictures above show the two ideas in which i must make a decision of which i will use with the help of my audience focus groups opinions and knowledge.

Contents

This screenshot shows the photos i will be using for the contents page.I have edited the photos in photoshop in order to make them look more original and indifferent , which reflects the indie genre.


This shows how i have used the tools to both resize my image and rotate them.Originally i used a box

Music Magazine Requirements

The front cover of music magazine is very important as it is the initial selling point and gives the reader there first impression of the magazine and automatically alters there decision to purchase the magazine.The language used throughout the magazine is very important as it instantly changes the mode of your magazine. There are many sentence functions that should be considered when creating a music magazine:


Sentence Functions:
Declaratives; these are sentences that make a statement.
Imperatives;  these are sentence structures which give orders.
Interrogatives; these are asking questions to the audience.
Exclamatives; these are sentences of surprise or alarm.

Tricks of langauge are used to interest the reader and attract them.These tricks accompany the sentence functions as well as the layout and graphology,for example tricks such as ;

Ryhme
Aliteration
Sibliance
Assonance


Intersexuality is often used in magazines to refer to films , this is when we are reminded of  media or a saying.


Contents Page:

The contents page is used to orienteer,this is useful and effective as it means that the reader can skip pages to articles they want to read and dont have to read the magazine in chronological order.In addition this saves time and they maybe do not have the time to search through the pages.
Information Value; the placement of elements that reflect their importance.
Saliance; the relative size of subjects that reflects its worth.

Reader Profile Of 'Record'

Record

Youth Sub Cultures

1950s-1960s
There was hardly any criticism ,all music was excellent and no bands were frowned upon in society.The contents was mainly chart singles and live gigs in local areas of the artists.
 The arrival of "The Rolling Stones" and "The Beatles" caused changes in society as the drug culture changed the nature of music and the lyrics.



1970s
"Glam Rock"
There were artists such as "Sweet" "Mud" "T-rex".
Music newspapers continued to be uncritical about bands and musicians until prog rock bands started to spend more money on stage equipment and lighting and didnt focus as much on creating new exciting records.
 The 1970s saw the development of NME talk about its self and politics.

In the Late 1970s and early 80s style in pop music became more important than the music content and records produced itself ,this included things like;

• Makeup
• Clothes 
• Video
• Fashion
• Hairstyles

1980s
Independent music labels wanted to be seen so they began creating handmade things to advertise their bands this led to individuality and encouraged a new generation of writers. There was also experimentation with writers and different typefaces.



1990s
Music videos were being released and became very popular which altered the way music was consumed by the target audience of the bands genre.



2000s
Nowadays there is a limited music music press due to the fact that most musicians and bands are seen as a pop culture. Celebrity's  who have a talent to sing or play an instrument in the media are now perceived to have the right to be rich and famous.