A "Brief" Introduction

Our brief for this term is to create the cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine. I am feeling good about this brief, as I read a lot of music magazines already, and feel that I can confidently pick out some of the key features that make them good. I was initially a little worried about using Photoshop, but I have worked with it before, and know enough about it to be able to create something decent. For now, I know that I want my magazine to be very colourful and eye catching, as I am thinking of basing my music magazine on popular rock magazines like Kerrang! and NME. After looking at some of the work from the previous AS classes, I have noticed that the best ones are the magazines that follow a consistent colour scheme and have a wide variety of text. I am also only likely to use one model for my magazine cover, as it becomes a lot more difficult to organize the cover if there is more than one person on it. I am feeling, over all, quite confident with the brief, and I look forward to the challenges that it brings.