The brief for AS Media

Our brief for AS Media in 2014 is to create a music magazine cover using the resources we have which includes analysing front covers of magazines from the music industry and creating a contents page for the audience linking to the front cover that we have created. The contents page would be on a double page spread. We have also been given ideas from previous student magazines and using those ideas to create our own. We’re also looking upon the mistakes they have made so we can overcome then and improve to make it into our own.

Recently, I have been looking at what type of genre I would like to base my magazine on. These type of genres were; rap, hip hop, R&B, rock and indie. With the ideas I have been through, I have come to a conclusion that I’ll be basing it on a rap and hip hop magazine similar to the XXL. The reason why I have chose to do a magazine similar to XXL is because of how the colour and layouts make the magazine stand out. The main colours they always use are red, white and black. Also the mast head of the magazine is put on the top left corner and in front of that is an image of artists with mainly a medium close up shot. They also make the subheadings on the front cover clear for their audience by including the page numbers also by spacing the text out with the artist in the middle of the magazine.