Our Magazine Cover

In todays lesson we were put into groups and had to analyse a magazine front cover. The music magazine cover which we had to analyse was MOJO magazine. We started off analysing it by brain storming the denotations E.g. the bar code, the strap line, the main image etc. We then wrote down connotations of the magazine E.g. Men aged 30-40+ read this magazine, it has a religious reference etc.

Once we had done this we were given a brief which asked us to create our own Music magazine. In our group we brainstormed down music genres including R'n'B, Hip-Hop,Indie,Garage and Funky House but in the end decide we would like to do a mix of Indie and Hip-Hop.

We then had to decide on a title for our magazine. With much thought we came up with NY. We then decided that as we wanted to do both Hip-Hop and Indie genres of music that one of the issues of the magazine would be sub-headed as 'Hippy-Hop'.