My initial ideas for my magazine

1. Body Text
The body text is an important feature in a magazine as it needs to be thought
through very carefully. To chose my font that I will uses as the main text for
my magazine I will look at all different types of fonts that I like and then
chose which one is the best for me and for the reader as it is vital that the
reader can read the font in order to understand the text that has been written
because if a chose a font that the reader cannot understand then my magazine
will not get good publicity. Here are some of the fonts that I am thinking
about to use in my magazine:
Arial Unicode MS
Ayuthaya
Avenir Black Oblique
Chalkduster
Comic Sans MS
Hobo Std
Camera Shots
Here are some camera shots that I will use in my magazine: These include a
close up, medium close up, medium long shot and a long shot.
Genres of magazines
Rock
Metal
Pop
Hip Hop
RNB
Rap
Jazz
Blues
Classical
The genre of magazine that I have chosen is a rock magazine as I am
comfortable with this genre as I read a lot of rock magazine so I use to the
style convention, pictures and stories that are included in the genre of
magazines.
Colour scheme
The colour scheme is very important in a magazine, as it is the
audience will associate a colour with that magazine. For example
Kerrang magazine uses black and white masthead which the target
audience will see and recognise that specific magazine.
The colours that I am thinking about to use on my magazine are:
The reason why I have chose these colour is because they are primary
colours and link to the genre of magazine that I am going to produce,
but also they are the colours that I will hope will attract my target
audience.
Features of my magazine
The features that are included in my magazine will cover a range of content that will interest the reader throughout the
magazine. The content that I will include in my magazine is a main story on band working on a new album, news on that
band, reviews of albums and live shows, include a member of a band who has took a quiz, posters that the reader can pull out
and articles on new band that have just appeared on the music scene which will becoming bigger over the following years to
come. It is very important to include as many different features as I can so that the reader will stay focused and enjoy the
magazine throughout. Another reason why it is important to include so much content is to give as much information to the
reader such as bands, albums and live reviews so that the reader will know about whether a particular album is very good and
which types of bands are good to see live. For my magazine I will have to create a double page spread which will include
pictures, heading and a main story which I will have to write myself. In order to do this I will be looking at bands that have
been in the news and write a story based around them. The other way that I was to create my double page spread was to ask
people to model for me with musical instruments so that I could use them in my magazine and make up a band name for
them and create a story for my double- page spread.