The pictures for my main article.

Due to that my main article will have a strip of images on the right hand side I will have to choose three to four of my photographs so that these will flow, maybe in a storyboard style, although this idea wouldn't allow for a flowing storyboard.

The photos I will use on my front cover

The following images I have considered for using on the front cover of my music magazine. These images I feel have certain aspects to them which would make them ideal for the front cover. This first image I feel would be suitable for a front cover image as it catches light into the image, shows the model clearly but also allows for the image to give off a certain amount of mysteriousness about the model. This can entice readers to buy the magazine as they will be curious about the model on the front cover, also considering that he will be portrayed as a 'new up and coming artist'.

This second image I feel could also be successful as a front cover image as it captures a wide span of natural woodland, this being ideal to what i would include into my article as portraying him to be at one with nature and an independent worker also, showing the image to be more detailed. This image also focuses on the style of the model, more than himself. This allows the audience to perceive him as he wants to be before seeing him, this also can create the curiosity as the first image does.

This third image would be an ideal front cover image as it focuses both upon the natural woodland and the main details of the model, this allows for both the mysteriousness and the audience curiosity to be captured. The natural scenery and that he is not looking directly at the camera also allow for the air of mysteriousness about him as he has detached himself from the shoot and that he feels more comfortable with himself.

My Pictures!

Questions for my interview - DPS article

were you expectant of your success when you started out?

do you write all your own lyrics and music or do you have help?

do you prefer playing at larger or smaller venues?

how were you discovered?

what other career choices do you think you would consider?

Copy for my magazine

Main Article - Interview

Ideas Change

After thinking about the music genre for my magazine I have come to a conclusion that the idea of a rock gere music magazine is not the most suitable for me to use in my creation of my music magazine. I feel that I would rather have a wider music range within my magazine as this would make the task of finding a suitable article for my double page spread easier along with also being able to take photographs for the front cover, main article and contents. I plan now to create a magazine that will be similar in style to Q magazine. I hope that this will make the task of creating my magazine, to the best it can be, easier. I will also however ensure that I still aim the magazine at a more female audience as there is very few on the market that cater for a femle audience.

Evolution of Genres

This theory originally applies to film studies but can be adapted to other media texts.

Prototypes The original seminal texts of a genre. Conventions are not set so there may be more variety.

Classic The conventions are established. Texts are 'perfect' examples of genre. Don't have to be 'good' just conventional.

Revisionist The conventions are rewritten because society changes or the classic conventions become stale.

Parodic This phase doesn't happen in magazines.

Post-Modern One aspect of post-modernism is bricolage - the recombining of old elements and elements from other cultures to create something new. An obsession with 'retro'. Some people claim it's all been done before.