ROCK MUSIC MAGAZINE
Start to familiarise yourself with music genres that you don't know, by first picking a music magazine, either popular or classical music.
Explore the genre (say, Reggae, punk, rap, rock, prog rock, pop, urban, heavy metal, R&B, soul, country & western, orchestral, ...)
Post all of this writing as well as your chosen magazine cover on your blog with your comments underneath.
Rock music is a form of music that evolved from rock and roll
and pop music during the mid and late 1960s. It was initially distinguished by ‘musical
experimentation and drug-related or anti-establishment’ lyrics.
On this cover, the central splash features the rock legend
Jimi Hendrix. He is placed right in the centre of the page in really big and
takes up most of the page; even blocking most of the magazine title. This shows
him as bigger than life and tells us he is very important.
In addition to that, he is gazing very seriously into the
camera almost in a judgemental way. This tells the reader that he takes his
music seriously and isn’t afraid to judge others’ music. Also, he is dressed quite
smart which proves my previous point but it also suggests that he is a legend of
rock so he is dressed like one.
Around Hendrix it looks like chaos which is a big contrast compared
to the image of the central splash; almost like Jimi is the eye of a storm
which is the craziness of writing that surrounds him. This is proved even more
with the way colour is used and how the articles around him are a mix of three
different colours yet Hendrix is just in black and white.
However, the writing is quite organised with different quotes
and stories around the side of the magazine as well as articles about other
artists on the top of the cover to attract people even more.
Marks 8/10
ReplyDeleteYou note the seriousness, even reverence, with which the magazine treats Hendrix (size, prominence, obscuring the title) and the way in which he gazes at the camera, demanding respect, solemn in black and white. I like your comments on the layout (eye of the storm). You are right about the 'chaos' and now should where possible use the terminology of magazine layout, such as cover lines, justified / not justified, serif /sans serif.