Secondary Research for my Music Magazine.

The genre of my music magazine i am going to do is 'Indie Rock'. I am going to use the magazine NME as my model cover, as i find this magazine interesting to read and very eye catching. The 'new musical express' (also known as 'NME') is a very popular music magazine in the United Kingdom, this magazine is published every week since March 1952. It was the first british paper to include a singles chart, in the 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970's  it became the best-selling British music magazine. During the period 1972 to 1976 it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism, then became closely associated with punk rock through the writing of Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill. This weekly magazine costs £2.20 each week, this magazine has a amazing readership of 411,000 every week. it had believed 73% of males read this magazine and 27% female, however this magazine intended audience is men 17-30, so there is a lot of the audience which s unintended.
NME are a extending company, as they have their online website, music program and a radio station. Krissi Murison was named the magazine's eleventh editor on 29 July 2009. She took over as the magazine's first female editor in September 2009. NME has a number of pages at 62, however these pages change a lot but never usually less then that, can always be more.

These's magazine front covers above are very eye catching, they all have different colours and layouts but are the same magazine. this is the type of magazine i would like to produce as my media project, as i think its very successful and a magazine i am interested in on a weekly base's. 

why is the magazine called NME(the new musical express)? this magazine is called NME because it is very modern style to its name and it also shows all the new music in this certain genre.

My analysis of my college magazine.

In my media lesson, my aim was to create a successful college magazine front cover and contents page.  for my front cover i decided to choose a picture that will draw people in, and show the understanding of college life, my picture being used is a girl standing there with her college books. even though college life has a main advantage of meeting new people and becoming more of an adult, i take that into consideration, but overall people are here to get their education and make a success of themselves, this was the point i was getting across. The contents also shows the same idea, however has a lot more fun stuff, and students need a break from heavy studying 24/7.

while creating my magazine front cover and contents, i found it quite hard to get used to the software, in design i picked up quite easy, however i found photoshop confusing, i had to keep using photo shop as it would have been impossible to create a magazine front cover without photoshop. As i kept using the software, i was understanding it more, and picking up how to use the effects.

Looking at my magazine front cover, i think i used a wide range of colours and fonts, however as a disadvantage i think some of the colours clashed, and i should of thought through the colours more. the different range of fonts i thought worked well, as it can get a bit boring when its all the same font. i found the back ground colour i used for my front cover and content, is dark, as a positive note maybe i could next time maybe change to a more effective background.

On the contents page, the font is used isn't very good, as you can't understand what is written, also my page looks very plain and needs to add more things onto the page, as it doesn't look like it will attract students into reading the magazine.

my college magazine idea :)