Researching GenreElectronic Music

Sub - Genres

• There are many sub-genres to electronic music.

Pictures of Famous electronic music artists.

Analyzing The Photos and Style

• When looking at the music artists you can see that most of them are double acts or sometimes more.

• Nearly all of the artists have logos or a text style in there names. • The lighting in the photos are dark with strobe like colors on the

some of the pictures. This represents the darkness and strobe lights in the areas that they play there music.

• When looking at electronic music you normally hear it at night when people go out so this goes with look of the music artists of the genre.

• The clothing worn is in some photos different and the hairstyles are strange and different to make the artists stand out as a person which is a form of advertising.

Label records that electronic music artists are signed to.

Electronic Music Magazines

Analyzing Magazine covers

• When looking at the front covers of the magazines I can see the use of clean crisp text, this gives a sophisticated look to the magazine.

• there is a pop art style look to the covers and there is a balance of sophisticated black and white and then bold bright colors in all of the ,magazine covers.

• Each cover has a main color pallet which is used in the pictures and text for which ever issue it is of the magazine. The only thing that stays the same on the covers is the font of the title of the magazine at the top.

• Each cover has a famous electronic music artist on the front and the sub titles talk about the artists and other events and interviews inside the magazine.

Key elements to use in my magazine cover.

• When designing my magazine cover I will keep in mind these things

• Using a matching color pallet with everything on the cover , for example the text, pictures, clothes etc.

• Using my own picture on the front which can be edited and on a white background so editing can be used also.

• Using text that will lure the target audience of the music for example, electronic festivals, interviews, competions etc.