2. Identifying my genre and target audience.
• I have recently looked and analysed several music magazines, but particularly
with the genre of rock, indie, and metal magazines this because i enjoy and
prefer this genre of music. My music magazine will therefore be influenced by
these particular genres of music and specifically the fact they use ‘real music’ or
‘general instruments’ such as the Bass, Drums, Guitar, Vocals, Brass
instruments, Keyboard and so forth.
• My target audience shall be those who particularly like and prefer the genres of
music that i have clearly stated above, (to which was simply produced by the
results of my questionnaire) and those to a specific age range from mature
teens up wards. My magazine is also quite formal, so it derives an audience of
mature and people with a more ‘intellectual’ frame of mind.
3. Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine.
• Feature Article Photograph– Would most likely be a large image of a
band/solo artist that take up the whole of the front cover.
• Feature Article– Would most likely be a long interview with a band/solo
artist.
• Other Articles– Tend to be interviews with bands/solo artists, album
reviews/previews, concert/tour dates, equipment
reviews, competitions, instrument lessons.
• Write-in sections– Customers of the magazines end in ‘letters’ and images
to be hopefully published in the following issue of the magazine.
• Pictures– Tend to be staged and edited.
4. Initial ideas- Magazine.
• Name of magazine.- Crash, Sound Wave, Amplified.
• Genre of magazine.- Alternative Rock, Indie and Metal.
-Within my Front Cover and Contents Page they will consist of the following
and more...
• Feature Article.- My feature article will be a question and answer interview to which portrays relevant information
about the artist , there will also be images to represent him/her or band members and maybe a fact file.
• Feature Article Image.- This will be a relatively large photography of the solo artist/ band.
• Other Articles.
• Other Images.
• Puffs.
• Plugs.
• Additional Information- Tour dates etc.
• Editorial.
5. Initial ideas- Double page spread.
• Name of musician/band.- Axl Faith.
• Genre of musician/band.-Rock/Metal/Indie- Solo Musician.
• Main article- Introduction: introduces the band, where they live, originate
from, how many band members? solo artist? Feature of their lives,
education and how they became a band/solo artist.
• Personal profile.
• Question and answer article.
• Additional information.
6. Title mast head Design ideas- front
page
Title mast head
Title mast head date
date date
Main article
Main image Main image Main image
other articles
Main article
Other articles
logo
Other articles
logo
images
Main article
7. Design ideas- Image of editor
contents
contents contents page contents
Features of
magazines
images
Images
Features of Features of
magazine Title mast head magazine editorial
8. Design ideas- title
double page spread
Main Image
title
Main article
Image with text
Main article
Main image
