Blog 1 - Introduction.

The main task is a development of the skills I have learnt from creating my previous preliminary task. My task is to create: a front cover, contents page and a double page spread for a music magazine.I am going to research what is already on the market and learn how the magazine attracts their target audience. My aim is to mirror what I have learnt through my research and mirror the skills and knowledge in my own music magazine. Firstly, I have decided my magazine will based upon Indie music, now a music genre in its own right. Indie is commonly used as an abbreviation for Independent music, which means independent from influences which is given by major labels in the areas of recording, production and publishing. This means the artist will not have to fear the term 'selling out' as the artist are in control. Bands in the past have been known to rose to alternative audiences when their labels have tried to make them more commercial. Bands such as the Sonic Youth have known to have made this decision. The link below is the previous task, which was the preliminary coursework. The brief was to create a front cover and contents page for Sussex Downs College. http://sdcmediaasinnamanapettyll.blogspot.com/