Magazine Ideas

who are you aiming your music magazine at?

• i am aiming my music magazine at people ages 16-24 mainly people who enjoy pop music and they will be based at males and females.

what musical genre will your magazine be from?

• i will base my music magazine around pop music - the audience will know this by the style of the main image, the different bands/artists used and the coverlines

What Title have you decided on and why?

• I have decided to name my magazine 'LabelUK' because its catchy and represents the genre of music that the magazine is about.

What fonts do you want to use?

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What are your ideas for a tagline?

• I am not going to use taglines on my front cover.

What kind of image do you expect to put on he front cover?

•  am going to re-create a cover image of adele on the Q magazine but with a model of my own.

How much would your magazine sell for?

• My magazine will sell for £3.99

what are your ideas for cover lines?

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what images do you expect to use on your contents page?

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What will your DPS be about? What are your initial ideas for images?

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Main Image Ideas

for my main image i am going to try and re-create something like this cover:

 

• My image will be portrait so it takes up the whole cover page and if i took it landscape then i would have to squeeze it into an A4 page which wouldn't look good.
• The main image on my front cover will be a head shot/close up of the artist and i will use the fan effect so her hair is blowing around.
• I will put my image in colour because i feel that it would draw more people in and would look better than black and white.

• My Front Cover will have the masthead in the left hand corner. 
• The main colours on the front cover of my magazine will depend on which colours i use in my main image.
• My main coverline will be the name of the artist and what the inside story is about-(my two page spread)
• my other cover lines will be based around different things that will interest people like new releases from different artists, different concerts coming up and interviews with other artists.

Today i created a Questionnaire to hand around the class for them to fill out which would help me get an idea of what to do for my magazine.

here is the questionnaire that i created:

After i got all of my questionnaires back i then made a results table to show me what others in my class think i should do.

Here is my results table:

Today i think that i have worked out what i will be basing my magazine on i have also thought about what i will put into my magazine, how much the magazine will cost, what will be on my front cover and what the name of my magazine will be called

I will base my magazine on Pop/Indie

I will have a 2 age spread on an article of an artist and their new realeases

i will have a main image, mast head, coverlines and article information on my front cover

I will price my magazine at £3

I will call my magazine LabelUK

Billboard Magazine Covers

    

 

I am going to focus my magazine on pop artists.
I would like to call my magazine something that will stand out and be remembered so i came up with the name: Label UK. this will be in 'TIMES' font and black/white depending on the colour of the background of the photograph.
my front cover will have be a main image of a 'celebrity' in which i am going to re-create one of these stars or i will make up my own star and photograph them in different poses/costumes.
There will be one main colour which might be the colour of her clothing or the colour of her eyes.
My Cover lines will be in 'Verdana' font and also in Italics. it will also be blue/green or red writing because it will either be the same colour as her eyes or dress.

 

FINAL Contents page

Here is my Final Design of my Contents page:


i made my final design exactly like i wanted it to look with two images on the right and one image on the left i felt that i should stick to my plan because it was simple but still looked good.
I made the background image fade in with the background because otherwise it would have looked too busy and i waned the other 3 images to stand out because more people are attracted to it.

Contents Planning

Here are the plans of my contents page:

    

• i want the background to be an image of the college entrance.
• i want the font to be in 'italics'.(not masthead)
• i want the masthead to be in bold and in 'TIMES' font.
• i want the font of the writing in the boxes to be blue or red.
• i want the font to be in 'ARIAL'.
• i want the images to have rounded edges. 
• i want the text to have a box around it.
• i want my images to have subheadings on them.

FINAL-front cover

15/11/11:

Today i finish my final plan of my cover page. i chose to change the colours of the wording i used and make the title of the magazine and the main cover line of the magazine bold colours that will stand out. because they are both different to the other cover lines.

Here is my final design of my front cover: