The document provides details on planning and designing a music magazine. It includes the results of an audience interview which found the target readership is mainly female teenagers interested in rock music. It discusses font and color scheme selections as well as ideas for photo spreads. The front cover concept is to feature a young male musician busking to appeal to both male and female readers. A double page story idea focuses on a personal profile of one band member rather than a group interview.

1. I N T E R V I E W A N D P L A N N I N G
AUDIENCE RESEARCH

2. VOX INTERVIEW
How old are you?
I am 16 years old.
What genre of music are you
interested in?
Rock.
What do you do in your spare
time?
I go shopping.
How often do you go to live
gigs?
Not very rarely.
Where do you usually shop?
New look.
What is your preferred music
shop?
Banks in York.
Describe your fashion style.
Casual.
What do you use the internet
for?
Social networking sites.
This interview I did was to get a
snippet of information from the
types of readers people who are
interested in the genres which will
be included in my magazine. It
gives the information to know what
kind of extras like shopping and
styling advice to do with the
celebrities included in the
magazine, by knowing where
majority of my audience will be
shopping, so I then know about
prices etc… It lets me know the
average of the ages and other little
pieces of information about my
audience.

3. WH A T I WA N T O N M Y M A G A Z I N E
PLANNING

4. STYLE SHEET
I have chosen to use this font as it is
bold, so it stands out, but it is also quite
different so makes it unique for my
magazine. I have found that the line
coming from the ‘M’ could link quite well
with a guitar string. I like the second font
more than the first because of the capital
‘S’, this makes it look quite different and
unique. I will also add a logo to the gap
in the title of the magazine. This font
may be a musical note or something
very musical. It is quite a sharp font
which links in with the ones from NME
and Kerrang!
This is the colours scheme I would
like to use because my audience
research evaluated that mainly
females were interested in my
magazine with a few males,
therefore I wanted to use a subtle
approach to this making it mixed
genre. I did this using a mixture of
pastille but also deep colours, to
contrast with this. The black colours
are mainly for the text in the
magazine as I want it to be one of
the boldest parts, and will be easy
to use, therefore will read even
over the deep blue.
Ariel Unicode Ms (12)
Bell MT (12)
Adobe Naskh Medium
(14)
Gungsuh (12)
Kozuka Mincho Pro (11)
I have chosen this font for my general
text as it is simple, and easy to read.

5. STYLE SHEET-PICTURES
I have chosen looking at these photos, that my magazine will include more images and information on band and groups together.
And the image of Two Door Cinema Club, I would like to use in a double page, but using my own version of the image as it
includes four different sections, which means I am able to incorporate four several bits to this one article, using ¼ of the image as
text, but the other three using perhaps titles and one blank. All these images include a certain prop and I want to show that these
are a band by having them holding something musically connected to their style of music, perhaps acoustic or electric guitars,
drums, or the instrument that they use. Looking at the image of Arctic Monkeys in the bottom right I want to have a group in a
querky and different place, like the woods and have them on the cover of the magazine. I want them to have contrasting colours
to what I want in my magazine, for instance the pastille colours, but quite a lot of grey and blue, as the blue is eye striking. I want
to link this colour scheme in with the image of the wombats, as they are very contrasting.

6. PICTURE ANALYSIS
I want to use this image, because it is a good template for a double page
spread. I think this because it is split into four separate sections, so the first
and second section could still include the image of two of the members but
one of them will include the name of the band in. This makes the image easy
to put as a half way mark and the blank part of the image is a good indicator
of where the text will be put. I want to use an instrument or some sort of prop
like this as it shows well that these people are part of a band together. I
would like to have the drum or instrument as a colour to link in with my colour
scheme for my magazine, so one have the instrument in colour and the rest
in black and white. This was my favourite image to use as a double page
spread as it is an interesting shot, and makes the band look quite qwerky and
different. It doesn’t look too professional but looks very natural. I would take
this image in a studio so that I could make people have the same lighting on
them, but also so that I can have a background with one colour, therefore
when I am taking the several images separately it is easy to place them
together in one. I want to make sure each member of the band is doing a
different action but looking quite natural and too posed.
These two images are ones which I would like to
influence from towards my front cover. I have chosen the
Arctic Monkeys one because I would like the front cover
setting to be somewhere outside perhaps in some woods,
and I have chosen The 1975 image because I like the
way they are postured and how they look. I like the
sparks/lights in the front of the image and how it looks
natural. Although these images are male I would like to
use female artists as it gives variety towards my
magazine, as many bands are male, I would like the
magazine to look different and unique and show some
different talent. I think this because a lot of front covers
include male role models for bands, but often there are a
few good female bands.

7. FRONT COVER
In my front cover I would preferably like to use something will attract
members of the audience, from both genders, I have decided because it
then gives me more diversity of how I would like to design the magazine
aswell, for instance neutral colours for the main headline and design
layout of the magazine will attract people of many ages, and both males
and females. Using a male as the front cover could entice the females
who are into music more because they will look at it from a gaze. It will
also attract towards a male audience because, of the music element to
the magazine, therefore engages them to want to look at this magazine.
Because it is a male they could see the person on the front cover as
more of a role model, or inspiration to perhaps make them want to also
get into music. But if the male on the front is a young artist many
members of the teenage audience could relate to him. As I want the artist
to be on the streets the audience could also see this as him wanting to
get somewhere and be someone better. I have chosen that to promote
himself as being an actual artist by busking will be a good way of
appealing to an audience as well, as then he is mid-way playing and this
could show to the audience because of the passion in their eyes.

8. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
Originally I wanted to make a double page spread using four images of the people in the
bands. I wanted the images to look very natural compared to the front cover image of
being performed and on stage. But then I realised that this would be quite a difficult task
due to getting four separate images in to one whole one. Instead I have decided I also
want to make the article more personal for my audience, because then they can relate
more, and get feelings coming from the article. The best way of doing this would be
writing an article on one person and making it a lot more personal, and in detail rather
than doing an interview with a few people from a band. The page for this would be still
sectioned into three separate parts and two quarter sections will be used up of an
image, this will borderline the two sections where the text will go. Almost spread into
four sections like the magazine below.