2. Target audience:
(age range, interests)
Young people who are interested in new Jazz, Funk and Soul music. Age range possibly around 16-22 year
olds.
Possible title ideas:
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Soul Jam, Hot licks.
Main image:
What will be the focal point of your front page, remember, your work
Picture of Green eggs and Spam, perhaps album cover, soul, jazz and funk
Main cover line:
What will be the main story?
Green eggs and Spam: New Album, new sound.
Additional key images:
What other images will be on your front cover?
Life of a session musician- image of a jazz musician playing at a gig, etc.
Additional cover lines:
Other features, stories or selling points which will be inside the magazine, these need
to be audience appropriate.
New saxophonist emerging, new bands (Brother sister soul and colloquial knowledge)
Typography:
(style, size, colour of copy)
Think about the writing and the style of the writing on your front page.
Clear cut font and easy to read and comprehend. Relatively large title but equally proportioned with size of
images.
Background colour/image:
What will be in the background, remember you don’t want to take the focus away from
the main image.
Back of a music studio/music room including the musicians playing their instruments
Technical considerations:
(equipment, setting, props, costume, lighting)
Be realistic and creative, think about what you have access to and how you could use it.
Images to include all instruments and have enough light I the room so I don’t have to edit it
Double Page Spread:
(what will be the main article in your magazine?)
This will need to be the main story on your cover, what detail will be featured inside?
Green Eggs and Spam will be the main article. Details on new album. Meaning behind songs they have
written., and background on all members and how they were introduced to jazz music at such a young age.
