Music Magazine

This is what I am doing:
"Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style)."

I have decided to do an indie rock music magazine, like 'Q', 'Spin' or 'NME'.

"Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include indie pop, jangle pop, C86, and lo-fi, among others. Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective."
- Wikipedia - Indie rock

Indie rock magazines tend to have quite a clean finish, i.e. they are not covered in pictures and writing or bright colours. They generally have one picture of an artist featured in the magazine, and a simple house font which will explain a few articles to the reader which are usually neatly placed at the side. The masthead tends to be at the top left hand corner of the page and written the house font. Colours tend to be light or pastel, calming in nature.

Mood Board for indie rock:

This is the sort of style I want to replicate in my magazine; retro but modern.
The colours, especially the light blue, which represents a certain excitement as a bolder colour, and orange/warm colours, which convey a warm, friendly feeling, are exactly what I want to replicate in my magazine.
I love the font of the 'Indie Rock' in the middle, and I feel that a similar font would suit the style of my magazine.
The retro pictures, such as the mic, tapes and records, show that my magazine will incorporate the old into the new, perhaps with articles about older tracks.

Wordle:

I gave a variety of Indie-Rock songs to a panel of people aged 16-29 (my intended target audience) and asked them to give one word describing the feeling the song inspired. I then made a wordle of their descriptions, which I will use when creating my magazine, to enssure that I get across the right feeling in it.