Drafting and planning - Influences

For my main cover of my music magazine I found a main inspiration for the style I wanted to approach was similar to a particular cover from 'MNE' with music sensation Jake Bugg as the cover star. I personally found the house style is quite wild and edgy which I am hoping to also achieve in my magazine. Furthermore, symbiosis is formed between the artist and the background since the photography is black and white and creates this sense distancing between the target demographic and the audience as they don't really know the artist which could be implied through the lack of colour within the artist as it suggests that the artist's fan base only know his innocent and purity within music whereas the article within may reveal a darker much more rebellious side within this issue of 'NME'.

I took inspiration from this cover and decided that I would slightly enhance certain conventions to properly support the ethos of the magazine. An example of this is the use of photography. For my magazine I used a lack of direct address to distance the audience from the artist to suggest how they lack knowing about the artist whereas this article will bring a new light into the artist's life that no fan has seen before, which will intrigue the target demographic into wanting to know more about the artist. Additionally, I decided that for my magazine I would include more cover lines whereas the NME magazine used less to enhance the focus of the audience towards the main cover star whereas I am hoping that for the target demographic members who do not particularly enjoy Rowan Matthew's music will be interested in one of the few other cover lines available.