The document outlines the plans for an indie pop magazine, including style icons, theme, front cover, contents page, and double page spread. The magazine will have a vintage 1970s/80s retro feel with a black and white color scheme and splashes of color. On the front cover, a close-up shot of the model will be in black and white with colored text. The contents page will feature Polaroid photos of the model and a gray background. The double page spread will continue the same color scheme and feature a close-up of the model and her interview presented in black boxes on a vintage background.

2. Model/Style Icons
• For my Indie-Pop magazine I want just one model.
• My style icons and influences are Lana Del Rey in particular,
Florence & The Machine, Kate Nash, Ellie Goulding and Marina &
The Diamonds.
• I want someone with little to no freckles and blemishes, with quite a
plain, simplistic and porcelain complexion so the images need
hardly any editing or filters on them.
• I chose these particular style icons because they all fit in with my
genre. They all are alternative music artists and this is not only
portrayed through their melodious music but their vintage classy
style of dress as well.

3. Theme
• I would like my magazine to have a vintage 1970s/80s retro type
feel to it hence why I will be choosing to include what is stated
below.
• I want to follow the idea of mainly black and white in my magazine,
with a splash of a few faint colours of the rainbow throughout the
magazine as well, so its attention grabbing, making it symbolic as it
represents light, happiness adds a vibrant edge.
• I want to use this theme because it in-keeps with my chosen genre.
This is through the timeless and classy theme which will run
throughout the magazine, which will link in with the classy,
harmonious, chic elements of my chosen genre.

4. Front Cover
• I’m going to use one close up shot on the front cover for impact.
• I want everything on the front cover to be in black and white (charcoal type
colour) with only some of the text and other elements of the front cover, in
either a dull green, blue, red, orange or yellow colour. To match the dots of
all these that I intend to place over the magazine really faintly to add colour.
• This is because the genre of my magazine is vintage/retro, the shabby
grained chic look should be complimented through these attributes.
• Colours will give and then contrast with one another will achieve my theme.
• Keeping the idea of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe in mind in the
point above.
• My front cover will follow this genre by having all the elements listed above
included on it. The use of these things will also reinforce my genre because
firstly; the close up shot portrays a look of innocence and it makes the
magazine instantly personal and relatable because of the intensity of the
picture readers feel as if it is directly at them specifically. Going back to the
aforementioned look of innocence it relates to the harmonious nature my
magazine pertains.
• Furthermore, the monotone colours gives off the idea and impression that
quite classy, timeless and melodious music is to be found inside because of
its elegant shabby chic look.

6. Contents Page
• I want my contents page to follow the same colour theme.
• I want Polaroid pictures of my model to be on the top right hand third
of the page.
• I want a charcoal/grey coloured background where the contents of
the page will be numbered in chronological order, and also
underneath the exclusives and special features of the magazine.
This is because I want to keep it the same colour scheme as the
cover page.
• My contents page will link in with my genre because the Polaroid
picture frames I will be using to show off miniature taster images I
have taken of my model before the double page spread. The frames
will be mirroring the instant photos Polaroid's usually produce, ones
that can't be manipulated. The old fashioned way. These images will
also represent my model in an authentic, classic way, as these
types of films and frames are occasionally used In the fashion
industry, by modelling agencies who use them to realistically and
naturally represent the models.
• These representations are all vintage in style and the old fashioned
element of the Polaroid cameras images reinforce the fact that my
magazine is striving to have that harmoniously, vintage melodic
theme running through it, complimenting the genre.

8. Double Page Spread
• I want to again follow the same style as I have done on my cover page and
contents page.
• The colour scheme on the DPS will be black, white, grey and a few colourful
dots.
• On the left hand page, I want my a close up shot of my model to take up the
entire page, with her name and a quote that she has said in her interview.
• On the right hand page, I want a completely vintage black/grey/white
background for the article and interview to be presented on top of. I want the
interview to be presented in black boxes so they stand out against the
flowers and the white/grey writing.
• The elements on my double page spread compliment my chosen genre of
Indie-pop because again the flowery theme, specially due to the way I intend
to edit it will have a vintage look to it, like a grainy, ‘flickery’ old film would
have.
• The DPS and this is what I intend to do, it gives me both the ‘Indie’-
(independent) and ‘pop’- (eclectic) elements I intended to achieve.

9. But black
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10. But black
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