Tuesday, 23 February 2010

What is the Most You Would Pay for a Music Magazine?


This pie chart shows the collected answers to our questionaire. We found that most people would prefer to pay up to £3 rather than paying less than £1.

What Would You Prefer as a Freebie?


This pie chart shows the collected answers to our questionaire. We found that most people prefer CD Demos rather than Mp3 downloads.

What Do You Prefer inside a Music Magazine?


This pie chart shows the collected answers to our questionaire. We found that most people prefer interviews and reviews, rather than the lastest news.

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

DJmag


For our first cover/ issue. We wanted to focus on an individual artist, rather than the music genre as a general. We gained inspiration from such magazines as, DJ magazine, which use artist photos as cover shots to entice the consumer. Here is a link to the website and an image of one of their covers: http://www.djmag.com/

Mixmag


http://www.mixmag.net/ is a Dance/ Club music magazine that we took inspiration from. We looked at what type of colours they used and how they laid the structure of the magazines out. We discovered that this genre of magazine stylizes like Club posters, by using loud and extravagant fonts and fluorescent colour. Here's an expample of a Mixmag magazine cover:

Monday, 1 February 2010

Interview as Word Document


This is the interview that will be used for the first double page spread.