Welcome to the official blog of 'Rhythm' magazine. 'Rhythm' is a monthly R'n'B, music magazine that provides readers with the latest information, reviews and interviews on their favorite artists and bands.

Purpose and intention of magazine:

The purpose and intention of my music magazine 'Rhythm' is to produce a reasonably good standard magazine based around the R'n'B genre of music. The intention is to inform people on an interview with an R'n'B band. The genre of music relates to the images and text, and this is all formed around youth culture. Once I interviewed people about what features they thought were important to a music magazine, I understood more about what I needed to put onto my magazine

Logo Planning and Masthead analysis:

This is my logo planning which helped me to chose which fonts, colours and also what text would be appropriate for the target audience of my music magazine.

These are three mastheads I looked at, and analysed at the start of looking at how to produce a music magazine. It helped me to understand what would attract the readers attention and also what would be appropriate for both the target audience and for a music magazine.

Music Magazine 'Rhythm'

Preliminary Task- School Magazine:

Double page spread images: 

This is one of the images frommy double page spread. I chose to analyse this image because I think it says a lot about the music magazine and the actual features in my magazine. It shows a young girl; the new member of the band. She is wearing a hood and lots of bold, statement-making jewelery. This image can contribute to helping the reader infer about the genre of music and attitude of the band. She is also wearing a hood which challenges the conventions of a usual 'pop' magazine.

These are two other images from my contents page and i kept them as actual images instead of making them black and white like I did with the main image. The colours are dimmed slightly and they are nearly opaque. They also merge into eachother and by this I think it looks quite 'youth-like'

Contents page images:

This is the main image for my contents page. It shows a member of the band 'in the middle' of playing the guitar. I took it at a high angle to give the reader the sense of 'we were not supposed to see this'. On my actual contents page, I made the image black and white and merged it into the background so that the image is not like a clear photo. The image can still be seen however and is part of the background.