The document provides details on planning and designing a music magazine. It includes the results of audience research interviews which found the target audience is mainly female aged 16 interested in rock music. Style sheets are presented outlining font, color scheme, and image choices. A contents page layout is proposed using images and quotes to represent stories and attract readers. Double page spreads and cover designs are planned to feature musicians in natural settings to appeal to both male and female readers.

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.
Adobe Caslon Pro (12)
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. Although my double page spread will be set out a lot
differently to the one below.
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9. CONTENTS PAGE
For my contents I want to include images which will illustrate what is in included in the magazine, this is because it
gives more of a direction towards the audience of what they may want to see in the magazine, and they also can see
which pages they may or may not want to go to. Next to the images will be a large number which will let them know
what page this certain story, etc.. Is on. There will be a small description of some of the bigger stories, including on the
contents and most of these will link to the pictures of artists which are also on the contents page. This will then give a
small insight in to some of the most interesting and appealing stories. Having a few quotes will also help to illustrate the
contents page a bit more and attract more of an audience, as it will be one of the more eye opening quotes from the
stories, as then it makes them want to read the story a lot more than previously. This magazine contents shows clear
indication and is a good template of what my contents page could look like and therefore I will be using this as
inspiration.
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