Sophie Angus is pitching a new eclectic music magazine called "Exclusive". The front cover and first double page spread will feature an interview with Paloma Faith. The magazine will have a bold and eye-catching design with the title in gold letters against a black background. It will be released monthly on A4 pages and target an audience aged 14-30, primarily male. Sophie will use Photoshop to design the front cover and spread to make the magazine look professional.

1. Unit 13 – Planning and Pitching a Print based Media Product - Proposal
Name: Sophie Angus
Candidate Number: 1006
Center Number: 64315
Format:
I am designing a format of my music magazine creation. I am creating front cover and double
page spread for the eclectic music magazine. As, this is a large market project form music
magazine, Exclusive, as I need to make the format right for the front cover and double page
spread.
Working Title:
My working title is “Exclusive” for my music magazine, however I could the name to “E”, so this
will be more like my music magazine of inspiration. The font and the colour of my music
magazine will be bold, eye-catching and simple, so the target audience can read the title easily.
In addition the outline of my title will be black, however the colour gold with fill the inside of my
title. The title will be across the magazine at the top.
Genre:
My sub- genre of my music magazine will be eclectic. This means that their will be different types
of genre like pop, rock, R&B, folks that will be included in my magazine. The reason why have
eclectic genre, is because my magazine will attract different audience to read my magazine.
Content:
On the double page spread there will be an interview will be contain of my first issue. I will
interview with Paloma Faith, who will be answering my question about her music, inspiration and
her fashion. Moreover, my music magazine will be released monthly, as Paloma Faith will be
featured on the front cover and double page spread, as my first issue. The reason why I have
chose a famous artist, not an unknown is because this will create ‘star appeal’- (Richard Dyer), as
this will increase the profit of the music magazine, which will make my music magazines
successful. Moreover, I will features a puff promotion and use buzzword like ‘free’, ‘exclusives’
and ‘special’, so the magazine will be exciting to read as you may feel like that you will be gain
something out of the music magazine.

2. Style or Approach:
The denotation of the colour scheme for the magazine front cover will be red, gold, black and
white. The reason why I have chose red to be included in my music magazine is because red is
colour of danger and therefore, may target audience could be a bit rebellious, as my magazine
could contain swear words during the magazine. Moreover, the reason I have chose gold in my
music magazine is because my magazine is like a celebration when buying and reading it, In
addition, gold is an exclusive colour, which mean if you have the right amount if money, you can
receive the VIP treatment of the exclusive information about my magazine. The reason I have
chose white to be included on my colour theme is because white is a fresh and pure colour, as my
music is will fresh information about your favourite artist or bands. Also, I have chosen the colour
that contrast with white, black, as black is a good colour for texts.
I am going to use Photoshop to construct the magazine pages (Front Cover and DPS) because this
software have various of tools, which is benefits me has I can edits the main images and the front
cover and double pages, so this can makes the music magazine looks professional, so I can make
the image look glossy and create the perfect image for my music magazine.
Some of the tools in Photoshop that will be particularly beneficial in constructing on the front
page will be colour correction, so I can make the main image duller and brighter, touch ups and
enhancement, all of these tools will help me to create the main image of the front cover of my
first issue of Exclusive.
Audience:
The age range that I want to attract my target audience is between the ages of 14-30. The reason
why I have choose this ages is because my magazine of inspiration Q magazine, ages range is
between 15-30, however, I think that with extending the age range for my music magazine
should be aimed at, this reveal that there is information that is suitable with all ages range. The
gender that my gender would be more likely to be aiming at is male. This is because for mu
magazine of inspiration, Q magazine, the statics connotes that more males read Q magazine than
females. Therefore for my music magazine there will be a more male than female that read my
music magazine. However, there will be females will still read my music magazine, however this
readership will mostly be male. The stereotype that could read my music magazine will be
teenagers is that they are all addicted to social media and always on their phones, as they are
they are bad and always break the law. Moreover, they teenagers do not know about real music.
Length:
I am going to make A4 pages, which will include the front cover and a double page spread for the
first ever issue of “Exclusive”.
Frequency:
The frequency of my music magazine will be monthly. This is because their will be a higher quality
of information in my music magazine. In addition there will be more information in my magazine
that will keep, audience interesting as their will included different information about music, artist
or bands.