My Music Magazine - Contents Page (First Draft)

My Music Magazine - Front Page (First Draft)

My Music Magazine - Double Page Spread (First Draft)

My Music Magazine - Photos

 

These are my original and edited images that I have used on my magazine. I edited the first two images on Photoshop and edited out the backgrounds. I edited the final image using the online editor, PicMonkey to make it into an album cover. 

My Music Magazine - Photo-shoot Planning Sheet

My Music Magazine - The Hypodermic Needle Theory

My Music Magazine - Media Institution

I would want a media institution like Development Hell Ltd to be the type of institution to represent and distribute my magazine because they represent magazines that are about music and entertainment and this is the genre of my magazine. The owners of Development Hell Ltd used to be the executives of the institution Emap which means they have a lot of precious experience with distributing magazines. My research found out that they have recently released an app for the club magazine MixMag which would be good for my magazine as the target audience is aged 14-18 so an app that would be available for their phones would be a positive and useful addition to my magazine as it would mean more magazines were sold, electronically or physically which means more profit. 

My Music Magazine: Double Page Spread, First Mock-Up

My Music Magazine: Contents Page, First Mock-Up

My Music Magazine: Front Page, First Mock-Up

My Music Magazine - Stereotypes Research

From researching different types of music genres and looking at the stereotypical groups of people who listen to that type of music, along with the results from my questionnaire, I made the decision of making the genre of my magazine POP and my target audience teenagers as this is the stereotypical audience that listens to the POP genre. I will then make the colours of the magazine to appeal to teenage girls, for example pink and purples as these are the stereotypical favourite colours of teenage girls. 

My Music Magazine: My double page spread will be...

My double page spread will be an interview with the new band of 2014, Wild Attack. It will ask the lead singer questions about how the band mates met and how they formed. It will ask what they’re looking forward to in the celebrity world and what they’re dreading.   

It will be laid out in question answer form on the left page of the double spread and a main image of the band on the right page. There will also be an inset of the band when they were young, as this will relate to one of the answers the band gave.

My Music Magazine - Cover Lines

I will have around 4 cover lines on my magazine and they will focus around pop acts that appeal to my target audience. For example, I will make one cover line be on the topic of Ed Sheeran as he is very popular at the moment, with the majority of his fans being teenage girls, so this would make them attracted to my magazine. 

The main cover line will be about my double page spread, for which I will create a fake girl band which is stereotypically liked by teenage girls, my target audience, to make it appeal to them.

My other cover lines will be about other things in the magazine, like the months charts and a review of a popular artists album and anothers tour, which would also appeal to the target audience of teenage girls.

My Music Magazine - Exploration of Fonts and Colours

My Music Magazine - Name tally

I did created a tally chart of possible names of my music magazine. I then asked people of the age of the target audience which name they liked best; the name with the most tallies is HPC. This will be the name of my music magazine.

My Music Magazine - Genre

I have decided to have the genre of my music magazine as POP.  I have decided this because it is such a big genre that there are so many aspects of it to explore. The results from my questionnaire show that for the demographic I am aiming my magazine at, pop is the most popular genre. This will be made clear in my magazine as the main articles and the reviews in the magazine will be about pop artists, pop albums and pop concerts. The house style will be bright with bold colours and bold writing which will make the magazine be eye-catching and attract people to the magazine; mostly teenager girls as they would be most likely to read a pop magazine.