Summary of my Research.

In my research i have learnt about some of the music magazines currently on sale, such as NME and Kerrang! and have looked into how they attract their audience and their different styles. These are things like the housestyle, the mode of address they use and even the font style. My preliminary task also helped me to understand what sort of conventions look good on a front cover and contents page of a magazine, and also let me experiment with ways of presenting the layout. I have also learnt about how many different sub-genres there are in larger genres, and how the styling of an image can affect how the audience perceive the person in the photo. This involves ideology, which is important to consider when looking at images.

I would like to use conventions like a mid/long shot of my subject, but then I would like to incorporate the unusual setting instead of a studio, like they do in NME. Examples of this could be taking the photos in an outside setting, like a large field or a forest. I will use a large banner to draw attention to the magazine, with a short catchy name. I would like my magazine to have an indie/rock genre.