edited front cover

Areas where curtain aspects of the magazine can be found

What type of magazine am I creating and who is my main audience?

Music type?

From what iv seen, magazines that i would ideally like my magazine to represent is an all round theme such as Q and FHM. A magazine that has a wide audience means that you can include more varieties of music. It has been proven to be successful, you only have to look and Q to see that.

Who is your audience?

To help specify my audience I have decided to create a questionnaire and ask a verity of people to fill it out

What would your magazine be called if it has such a broad market?

Ideally i would like my magazine to be aimed at an indie society, in which case i would like to call it something that is ideologically representative of that group of people

Why have you chosen this magazine? 

Iv chosen to create this type of magazine because I don't know enough about a specific genre to create a magazine about. At the moment i would say thet the most popular music out their could be indie/alternative. Its a very popular genre and even though it will be specified to the indie group, it will most probably be brought by an audience with an eclectic taste in all music genres. 

A history of indie music

INDIE - - - The indie rock scene started in the 1960's, originating in great britain and across the atantic in  america. The Velvet Underground (band) have been branded the founders of the indie scene, starting off the anti - authority move in america. Their music and lyrics challenged the convention of societys standards at the time by creating and bringing nihilistic music about the world, as well as making it a way of life. People started to think for them selves and break traditionl society walls. It became a way of life that started to creep out into music, singing about things that mattered and what needed to be brought to peoples attention.  Back then the name for indie sounds would have been alternative rock. This has been associated with the beach boys fist album 'pet sounds'. 

In britain however acts such as the Beetles and The Smiths were breaking into the music buisness and breakin society down and briniging communities closer together by dispersing there music.  In the 1990's alternative rock became more frequent in the form of punk and grunge, with bands such as Narvina and Alice in Chaines making there first apearance. Popular bands such as Good Charlotte and Green Day became very popular with early - late teens, and become very populer to the anti authority/experamentalis/ creatives and rebels, who the mian consumers of this type of music. 

As we reach the 00's indie yet again branched off to re intoduce the emo scene, intoducing new fashion and new music but as we reached the end of the 00's indie music is starting to create yet again new sounds but still carrying on the same new way of life. The Artic Monkys brought back the origionality of the Beetles and many different acts followed. eg, florence and the machine, Marina and the Diomands, The Kooks, Mumford and Sond, Anya Marina and many more well established artists.

Indie had also collaberated music and fashion together. Meaning that this type of music has influenced EVERYONE's day to day lifestyle.

One of the main record labes that is signing indie artist at the moment are Island Records.
http://www.islandrecords.co.uk/

Why I Chose Print?

The main reason that i have chosen to do print is beacuse I feel I will work better independantly that with a group. I will be able to make my own decisions for my magazine and create the layout and the content within it. The reason I chose not to create a film is because I felt that I would be left to finish off creating and editing all of the work, as well as have to collect all of the props and find locations a so forth. I also felt that as I had the chance to improve my skills on photoshop that I should take it as I would have to do a film based project next year in A2 and which would allow me to improve all of my skills on editing software then.
Having a chance to make a magazine all by myself would also give me room to try different things and move things around with out having the stress of having a specific deadline when I worked with a group; hence then their is more stress to deal with.


Working on a magazine for the pre luminary task showed me how much work i needed to do to improve my editing skills, i was most comfortable in working with the camera so i felt that i should try and increase my skills on the magazine on of things

pre liminary task

For our preliminary task we had to create a front cover for our magazine. i never would have thought that the creation of my magazine that i have done for my final piece would have taken me as long as it did. i used many different pieces of software for my final magazine in comparison to my preliminary such as, photoshop and fireworks. Through doing my research i found that there are many more factors that need to go into a magazine than i would have origionally expected