Music Magazine (finished)

Music Magazine

-MixxRave Magazine

Please do leave feedback about what you thought about my music magazine. The only key information you need to know about this magazine is that it's genre is Dubstep and Electronic and obviously most of the information is made up. (At the far bottom are the original designs). However, please do enjoy.



Front Cover

Contents Page



Doublepage spread

Article: BREAKING IN

Broken by soul, blasting it on the turntables, his emotions for music has no bounds.

Since the start, when he dropped his first bass with his first single magnitude. Ben Wooding (as Broken Beast) has taken a giant leap into the music industry with his genres of Dubstep and Electronic and has grabbed the attention of the newly adored fans.

The young DJ started back in early June 2012, after spending several days of his free time mixing around with his favourite tunes within his bedroom. He then uploaded most of his own original mixes on to the internet, via YouTube, Juke box alive and Facebook. In the first four months after uploading his tracks, swarms of listeners began to take a serious interest into his music, gaining the Beast a place in the charts.

In a recent interview with the animal himself, we got to find out his thoughts behind his smashing success. “I would never image that I would get to where I am today, amongst the stars. From what I started off with in my family’s house, too now being one of this generations top artists. It’s extraordinary and unreal. A journey of a life time which has changed my whole life around and hopefully the world! I am proud to see that the genre of Dubstep and Electronics keeps on growing with every new track so I’m unbelievably happy to help inspire fans to enjoy the raves to a never dying genre of art.”

Already Ben has been teaming up with other artists and bands, such as Nero/Icon for Hire/Infected Mushroom/Breathe Carolina and Skrillex, to give a new feel to their genres and to gain inspiration for his later tracks. Something for fans should stay tuned in for.

Originals

Front Cover

Contents Page

Doublepage Spread

Edited Images

The following link is about how I selected the images for my music magazine: 
http://prezi.com/bfte0dvvbrqn/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
These images are from my list of pictures that I have taken from my photo shoot. I may use these in my final music magazine.

Magazine Images

Music Magazine Images

The following images your are about to see are several examples that I may or may not be using in my upcoming music magazine. These involve several images of; technology that may relate to my genre, images of me wearing similar cloths to what some of the niche market may wear and poses and action shots you would see the genres niche do. However,the images that have been selected as "NOT USING" are the images that I will not be using for my magazine. Enjoy!

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

With most of these images as you can already tell, there are several objects and parts in the backgrounds that I will want to remove from my final images. To make this possible, I will be using Adobe Photoshop to recreate some of the pictures and designing them so they are relevant to my music magazine's genre. In some cases, I may create some of my own draws, like the image second to bottom, and try to make them look as realistic as possible so they can also be inputted into my music magazine.

Examples of Photoshoped images:

Magazine Mock Ups

Magazine mock designs

Here are some mocks for the style and layout for my magazines front cover. I have compiled some of my results from my 'Survey Monkey' questionnaire and have used them to plan out my magazine covers. The rest of the magazine, such as the contents and double page spread will use one of these mock ups colour schemes but the layout will be entirely different. 

Mock Up No.1

Mock Up No.1 Contents Page

Mock Up No.1 Double Page Spread

Mock Up No.2

Mock Up No.2 Contents Page

Mock Up No.2 Double Page Spread



Mock Up No.3

Final Feedback

Magazine Ideas

For my final Music magazine, I have been researching into Electronic and Dubstep music and their target audience so I could get a bigger understanding on how I should go about designing my music magazine and for who it will interest. From my mood boards, I can tell that two genres are quiet similar with there type of audience, niche market, and the colour schemes and the genres artist's style of album covers.

Usually lasers and bright neon colours, such as neon GREEN, ORANGE, CYAN, and PINK, on a black, dark background or an image, can present the vibrant feel from the genre. Seeing waves of light and pulses of luminous colours makes me think of raves and gigs with a creative side to them, with the music in sync with the lights giving the audiences feel energetic and hyper. These are the kind of feeling I want my magazine to give out to the readers. By getting them into a positive emotion with the front cover, this can help keep the readers latch onto the rest of the magazine as they want to be entertained by the featured articles.

I have also discover that most electronic and dubstep music can be presented as art, like most music genres. As Dubstep is a type of Electronic dance music, it is scene as a dark and moody genre with its distinguished sparse rhythms and emphasise on bass. Some tracks frequently use a minor key and can feature dissonant harmonies. Other distinguishing features often found are the use of samples, a propulsive, and an almost omnipresent sub-bass. Some dubstep artists have also incorporated a variety of outside influences, from dub-influenced techno such as classical music or heavy metal.

"Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006, with many websites devoted to the genre appearing on the Internet and thus aiding the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz. Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media."(-http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Dubstep) Seeing as the genre started off on the internet and went global from there, a digital copy design of the magazine would be suitable to sell the my magazine as well as a hard copy for those who can't buy it electronically.

Even though the stereo typical audience are similar to heavy metal artists, it is all just a gimmick. From research and from several images, I have found out the niche market for electronic and dubstep fans are mostly just your average teenagers and young adults. This is probably due to dubstep's free will style of music, as it is a rebellious genre like rock, that young adults and teens can enjoy at parties and raves.

Mood Boards

Electronic- Mood Board

Dubstep- Mood Board

Niche Market- Mood Board

Online Questionnaire

Online Music Target Audience Questionnaire

The link to the following questionnaire is a list of 10 questions, so I can gain information about the target audience for music magazines.
It would help me out so much if you could follow the link to the questionnaire and fill it out. Thank you.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/988Z5WZ