Week two

After completing the preliminary tasks we began to study the general concepts of a music magazine by initially answering the basic question - what is the purpose of a music magazine? We then brainstormed all the different purposes and the methods of advertising those purposes and thought of as many music magazines as we could before being introduced to many examples of Q, NME, Kerrang!, Mixmag and The Word. After this we spent a few lessons studying the general codes and conventions of popular music magazines then completed a 'draw from memory' task. This involved studying a front cover then trying to re-create as much of it as we could remember without looking at the same time and still creating a similar interpretation. Our group won this task and I feel the lesson helped me to consider the finer details of magazines such as the barcode, issue number and date which need to be present but are not the first thoughts when picturing front covers. After this lesson and towards the end of the week, we decided on a specific genre we wanted our own music magazines to be based on. I decided upon indie rock because they are the music genre's that I know most about as I am interested in them and have studied/ read more indie rock magazines than any other genre so have a clearer understanding of which bands I could include and which types of images to collect.