Response to the Brief

Myself and Maisie Weaver have chosen to create a rock music magazine, this is because we feel that we will be able to achieve a better grade by focusing on a music type we know a lot about. We have decided that our target audience will be mainly focused on young people/teenagers(16+); this is because we our teenagers ourselves, which means that we will have a better understanding of what may appeal to them/want they want to see. There are two specific rock magazines that have influenced our choice of genre: NME and Kerrang magazine, they seem to have a very big fan base/audience which could be because of the specific content within the magazine, e.g. musicians/articles. Print Brief: Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.