Introduction

My name is Joel Lampkin and here on this blog you will find my coursework for AS media, in this project I will be creating a Music Magazine. This blog will act as a diary full of posts linked with my magazine such as Magazine reviews, Music video reviews, Screenshots of my progress and other posts that can get me to a higher grade throughout this project. The immediate impression and foundation I imagined for this project was to visit a shop and purchase about 3-4 music magazines and compare them to see what actually needs to be included in my own. By doing this I will have a basic understanding of what I need to do such as taking photographs of people to include in my band and do research into the correct terminology of magazines to make this blog seem more professional.

About me

I am aged 17, and like nearly everybody in the world I am a music fan, my music preferences often vary as I enjoy a large range of music from different genres. If i had to pick a favourite genre or genres they would have to be Indie music, bands like The Imagine Dragons, The 1975 and Ed Sheeran really appeal to me as their music is not loud or pointless and make

s me and others feel happy, the type of music of the artists above is very soft music and I like it purely because the songs sound good with the certain tones used, regardless of the meanings behind them. Ed Sheeran is the most original out of the three and he really appeals to me as an artist because he seems very down to earth and the way he sings his songs is like something I've've never heard before, he sings in a metaphor style making the audience think about his lyrics rather than just the sound of the music. I don't tend to take very much notice into the world of music magazines as I prefer reading about my favourite artists on-line, via social media such as Twitter or Facebook as I think its more appealing and socially viable rather than spending at least £3 on a music magazine each week. I appreciate the scale of the effort that is incorporated into a music magazine or any magazine for that  matter but I just believe that there are better ways of reading a magazine rather than in its physical form.