Intro to Production Brief and Initial Ideas

I have been set a brief which is to create the front cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine. When I was first set this brief, I had many ideas going through my mind because I wasn't sure what genre my music magazine would be based upon. I do feel a little confident towards this brief as I have had experience with Photoshop during my preliminary task which was to create the front cover and contents page of a college magazine. However, I do feel quite nervous because my deadline is quite short and I will need to work hard to achieve the target. In the past, I enjoyed blogging about everything I did but I don't think I did enough of it and now I will need to change this as I will need to blog about every other change I make to my music magazine. Also, I don't read many music magazines so I am not quite familiar with the conventions of a specific music magazine. I have decided to make a Pop music magazine as that is the genre of music I usually listen to on a daily basis. I also like listening to R&B and Hip-Hop but I will stick to Pop because I am most familiar with this. I would've liked to challenge myself and create something new but I don't have much time and I am most comfortable with the Pop genre. I may need to spend my free time testing the other features on Photoshop and getting used to them so that when I come to the actual production work, I won't be confused and this way, time won't be wasted. One thing that worries me a lot is time management because my time management skills are quite poor. To overcome this problem, I will need to get used to some of the new features on Photoshop that I may be needing so that I can use them in my production work. I will also need to read more music magazines, in this case Pop, so that I can visualise different masthead fonts and the conventions needed to meet the specifications of the genre. I may choose to subvert from these conventions to make my magazine unique but I will conform to some of the basic conventions such as the font colours and the types of images used. Overall, I feel quite confident towards this brief and look forward to making a pop music magazine of my own.