magazines i am going to analyse

i am going to analyse 3 magazine front covers, contents pages and the double page spreads this will help me with my ideas of my own magazine. the 3 magazines i have chosen the analyse are :
xfactor magazine - because this is the only pop magazine i can find on the market at the moment
Q magazine - as it still has some pop genre in the magazine but cover more genres than just one.
kerrang magazine - even though this is out of the pop genre it will still show me the ideas the other types of magazines have to layout there cover, contents and double page.

music genre

the music magazine genre i have chosen is POP as there isnt any magazines out there that use this genre of music.

the only magazine that has just been released that uses the pop music is the xfactor magazine but this has only been around a couple of months this shows there is a market for pop music magazines.

the magazine feature that xfactor magazine has for the target audience is that they keep up to date with the latest pop star and who is number 1 as if there higher in the pop world at the time they are more likely to be on the front cover of the magazine the audience it usually buys pop magazines such as xfactor mag is usually teen girls.

keeping the pop magazine traditional and putting someone on the front cover that suites the pop genre will make it fit in and keeping the music inside the magazine new and fresh. 

music magazine brief

in my music magazine i need to include :-

• an original music magazine
• a front cover
• contents page
• double page spread
• 4 original images, no copyright

these must all be included in my magazine !

Short Evaluation

for this project i had to create a front page and a draft of a contents page for a magazine i chose to do a media magazine and show someone on a computer as the front cover image.

on my front cover of the magazine i used a medium close up image of a girl on a computer and the photo makes her stand out as i have blurred the background so you focus on what is impotant on the image. my front cover shows the girl working hard on a laptop showing that hard work = success and that she is concentrating on her work. the audience the magazine is aimed at is 16-19 year olds as thats general age people are at college and it is also made by a college student so this also reflects on the magazine.Finally the cover represents what media is like and having to work on laptops/computers and as the girl in the picture looks like she is concentrating and working hard shows the comitment to the media subject. the girl i used in the magazine had a blue top on so i carried the theme and used a darker blue as the title so first you look at what its called then the image all the subheading and headings are blue and black so they stand out ontop of the image.

in conclution i think my final piece went well and on time,the colours i used contrasted the image on the front cover and i followed the brief and included everything i needed to.

final piece front cover

this is my final front cover i kept to my draft which worked well but i had to change one thing i put my issue and date at the top right instead of the bottom right.

front cover draft

this is the layout to my front cover and how i would like it to look like

contents draft