Ancillary Task - Music Magazine

As part of the task to create a music magazine the group and I decided on developing and creating a music magazine front cover as a way of advertising our product. as we were doing a video on Olly Murs our front cover had to relate entirely to him from the iconography to the colours and fonts used on it.

To do this we had to undergo some research which was both primary and secondary. in this we looked on the internet for things such as our artsists fashion, the types of people that listen to his music, the genres he covers and how he encorporates this in his songs. although this was secondary research we felt this was just as important as primary research so that we could accurately develop our product and represent the chosen artist in the best way.

Another part of our research was to look at the codes and conventions of music magazines and that of the genre of pop. we looked at pop magazines POPSTAR, Q, Bibloard and NME to gain an added insight into the overall iconography and layout of their front pages. we made sure that these were stuck to during the development process.

With all the research at hand, the sketches were made in order to get the ancillary task moving and it began to take shape through drafts that were made. without the research that had taken place, there wouldnt have been a clear focus in the development stages and this meant that there would have been room for mistakes.

This magazine front cover image is striking with the artist sitting very clearly above the header with the text beside it making him the focal point of it.

This magazine front cover also came to our attention with its use of style (Hip-Hop) and convention. The use of faded black and white colours gave us added inspiration as to the type of magazine we could create for our own task.