The Power of Love (Extra innocence Edition)

Gabrielle Aplin completely fits with the genre that i'm trying to display with this magazine. A now established mainstream Acoustic-pop singer with Acoustic/Singer-Songwriter/Folk roots.

The front cover above expresses this perfectly. The shadow laying across her eyes and the simplistic dress sense portraying the simple acoustic genre. While the Pink bow symbolising the playfulness and innocence that the Pop genre aims for. While I'm planning a male model for my front cover, this is exactly what i'd like to portray in it.

Also, this magazine has chosen to become almost completely devoid of extra articles and features to place on the front cover. Leaving only: The image, The magazine title, basic information of the magazine and in very small writing, a select number of artists also featured in this magazine. With these names usually encompassing the whole front cover on some magazines. While perhaps not as extreme as this, I'd like to have a similar level of basicness in my magazine. While this goes against what I intended when I analyzed with the Florence and the Machine front cover, I would like to have something else perhaps in the Bottom left hand corner in addition to my main feature. However like this front cover, I'd like to only include one main picture.



Annoyingly, I had no idea that the magazine "Hunger" existed before today. This is one of my initial names for this project. So that's a small brainfail from me.

Double page spreader

Having a first look at double page spreads, the first thing that catches my eye are the breakout quotes. These seem to be a consistant feature across many magazines featuring interviews. I would like to use these in my magazine in a similar fashion to how they're used here. The quotes here such as "I'm not a rapper, I'm a singer-songwriter" directly reinforces the genre that this magazine is trying to sell. This matches both my chosen genre, and the style of writing I will use in my Magazine.

The artwork next to the Drop Capital and in the "Like this? Try this..." section can be seen as an advertising method, as people who take interest in the subject of this article will be able to look out for the album art seen in this double page spread. While I don't need to worry about advertising in my project, this can be seen as a feature that is very consistent across multiple magazines and I will be sure to try to include a similar feature in my magazine.

Contents

In typical A-level fashion i've been struggling to find influences relating to an Acoustic/Singer-Songwriter/Folk Magazine. However the recent rise of artists such as Ed Sheeran, Gabrielle Aplin and even Taylor Swift has bridged the gap between acoustic and pop music. Which gives me a reason to take both acoustic and pop influences for this magazine.

Moving on to the above image, there are a couple of features in this contents page which i'd like to include in this project.

Firstly the border on the top displays the basic information that every contents page needs and manages to include the 3 house clours that Q uses, black red and white. Despite only having one page for my contents page instead of the two that is used here, I would like to include this in my project with my own intended house colours, white, orange and pink. However on this border it does display the issue number. I feel like this is something that is only needed on the front cover.

Next is the layout of the writing across this image. The rule of thirds is used from left to right here. With the most important articles on the left, images in the centre and less important articles on the right. While I understand why Q has done this, I would like to use this in a descending order rather than landscape to maximise the use of a one page contents rather than two.

Singer-Popwriter?



The image on the above front cover shows an influence of what i'd like the front cover image to be. A clear image of the artist and instrument and nothing else. This is a goods metaphor for the genre at hand. The Acoustic/Singer-Songwriter genre is known for simple recording methods, no added effects and a clear relationship between singer and instrument. Over the break i've taken the desicion to focus the magazine to this type of Music, and while i've already decided to have a full body shot on my front cover, i'd like to have an instrument, preferably a guitar to express the relationship between instrument and artist that this genre expresses

 

 

The above front cover shows a more pop side to the acoustic/singer-songwriter genre, with more emphasis on the Artist rather than the instrument. However this magazine looks alot more spaced out while the first magazine looks very compressed. Personally I find the second front cover alot easier to read and I'd rather have mine look more like this. However with a different colour scheme