The document discusses genres for planning a magazine, including rap, pop, and disco genres. For each genre, it outlines considerations for color themes, poses, fashion, backgrounds, target audiences, cover stars, and example cover page ideas. It provides brief descriptions and stereotypical views to consider for each genre for photoshoots. Unfortunately, no clear examples are given of contents pages or double page spreads to clearly illustrate magazine layouts for each genre.

1. Genres

2. Essentials for planning a
magazine
• There are a few things that are important to
think about when deciding the genre of your
magazine
• Such as; image Inc. fashion, poses for pictures,
background for pictures, colour themes
• As well as more theoretical things such as
target audiences and ideas for coverlines etc.

3. 1. Rap
• Colour theme – bright, bold & masculine
• Pose – attitude, street & relation to fashion
(stereotypical views)
• Fashion – street, hip hop & what the relatable
celebrities are wearing
• Background – Streets & stereotypical
situations

4. 1. Rap
• Target Audience- people interested in rap and
older teen and young adults audience.
• Good cover stars- people similar to Kanye
West and Jay-Z.
• Possible ideas for coverline ‘exclusive
interview with Kanye West’ or ‘Fashion tips
from Jay-Z’.

5. 1. Rap
• Example of Cover-

6. 1. Rap
• Example of Contents
Page-

7. 1. Rap
• Example of Double Page Spread-

8. 2. Pop
• Colour theme –match the season and what’s
hot in fashion, mainly girly.
• Pose – fashion, dance (stereotypical views)
• Fashion – stereotypical, stick with colour
theme, pop
• Background – relate to articles, fashionable

9. 2. Pop
• Target Audience- people interested in pop
with with a younger age range.
• Good cover stars- people similar to Adele and
Taylor Swift.
• Possible ideas for coverline – ‘interview with
Taylor Swift’ or ‘dress like your favourite pop
star’.

10. 2. Pop
• Example of Cover

11. 2. Pop
• Example of Contents
Page

12. 2. Pop
• Example of Double Page Spread

13. 3. Disco
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Colour theme – bright, fluorescent colours
Pose – dance, fun, laugh
Fashion – bright, 80’s, leg warmers
Background – club, party dance, suit to issue
theme

14. 3. Disco
• Target Audience- older generation (people
who lived during the 80’s), gender neutral
• Good cover stars- Madonna & Prince
• Possible ideas for coverline- ‘get a early
glimpse at prince’s new song’ & ‘back stage
with Madonna”

15. 3. Disco
• Example of Cover

16. 3. Disco
• Example of Contents
Page
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only contents page I
could find which I
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magazines have a
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17. 3. Disco
• Example of Double Page Spread
Unfortunately this
picture isn't very
clear but you can
still see the colour
theme, also you
couldn't’t see
inside the
magazine either.

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END.