The document contains proposals and draft designs for a pop music magazine. Proposal 1 suggests the title "Sound of Pop!" and a color scheme including red, pink, yellow, blue, purple, orange, white and black. Proposal 2 suggests the title "The Life of Pop!" and a lighter color scheme. Sample designs include a front cover layout, double page spread layout, and different options for the overall magazine layout. The drafts demonstrate positioning of elements like the magazine title, images, text blocks and page numbers.

2. Proposal 1
• The title of my magazine will be ‘Sound of Pop!’
• I will use this font for the Masthead:
• The house style of my magazine will consist of the colours:
Red (to signify excitement, energy and love), Pink (to
signify love, romance and excitement), Yellow (to represent
Joy, happiness, optimism, imagination and hope), Blue (to
signify peace, stability, trust and loyalty), Purple (to signify
wisdom and enlightenment), Orange (to signify energy,
balance, enthusiasm and warmth), White (to signify purity,
simplicity, peace, youth, good) and Black (to signify Power,
elegance, style and innocence). .
• Most of the colours on my magazine will be bright
(especially the front cover) but I will have some pastel
shades in the magazine as well so there is more variety and
utopian colours.

3. Proposal 2
• The title of my magazine will be The Life Of Pop!
• The font this will be presented in is:
• The house style of my magazine will consist of the colours:
Red, light blue, light green, light purple and lilac, light pink
and light yellow.
• My magazine will be a monthly prescription to get readers
waiting for the next issue and to allow for more time to
prepare the magazine.
• Most of the colours in my magazine will be light and pastel
colours, but will have a few bright colours (mainly on the
front page) for puffs and maybe the back ground of the
masthead so it will stand out and look interesting.

4. Summary
• ‘The Sound of Pop!’ is my chosen title and the image above is my chosen font with
my title I plan to use as well.
• My magazine will be classed as a new product launch, but after a couple of issues
(maybe four or five months) it will hopefully be a market leader.
• ‘Top of the Pops’ (my magazine of inspiration) and ‘We <3 Pop’ will probably be
the main competitors as those magazines have been around for longer, so they will
have gained more experience of magazine publishing and knowing what kind of
things that audience favour. Since they have been around for longer, they will also
be more popular as less people by magazine now because it is all on the internet,
where as people used to have to by a magazine if they wanted one as you couldn’t
get magazines online then.
• My target audience will be young (12+) female aspirers (psychographics) in the ‘E’
group (demographics) who’re caregivers (Maslow) and either build a personal
relationship with certain pop stars or bands or inform & educate to learn
something new by consuming the magazine (Katz’ uses and gratifications).
Because they’re in the ‘E’ group, the readers won’t have much money to spend
(only pocket money), so a suitable price for my magazine would probably be £1.99,
as typically they will also need money to buy sweets, hair bands and lipglosses
etc..

5. Summary
• ‘Life of Pop!’ is my chosen title and the image above is my chosen font with my
title I plan to use as well.
• My magazine will be classed as a new product launch, but after a couple of issues
(maybe four or five months) it will hopefully be a market leader.
• ‘Top of the Pops’ (my magazine of inspiration) and ‘We <3 Pop’ will probably be
the main competitors as those magazines have been around for longer, so they will
have gained more experience of magazine publishing and knowing what kind of
things that audience favour. Since they have been around for longer, they will also
be more popular as less people by magazine now because it is all on the internet,
where as people used to have to by a magazine if they wanted one as you couldn’t
get magazines online then.
• My target audience will be young (12+) female aspirers (psychographics) in the ‘E’
group (demographics) who’re caregivers (Maslow) and either build a personal
relationship with certain pop stars or bands or inform & educate to learn
something new by consuming the magazine (Katz’ uses and gratifications).
Because they’re in the ‘E’ group, the readers won’t have much money to spend
(only pocket money), so a suitable price for my magazine would probably be £1.99,
as typically they will also need money to buy sweets, hair bands and lipglosses
etc..

6. My magazine house style
• The house style of my magazine will consist of the colours: Red (to signify excitement, energy and love), Pink (to signify love,
romance and excitement), Yellow (to represent Joy, happiness, optimism, imagination and hope), Blue (to signify peace,
stability, trust and loyalty), Purple (to signify wisdom and enlightenment), Orange (to signify energy, balance, enthusiasm
and warmth), White (to signify purity, simplicity, peace, youth, good) and Black (to signify Power, elegance, style and
innocence). . Most of the colours on my magazine will be bright (especially the front cover) but I will have some pastel
shades in the magazine as well so there is more variety and utopian colours.
http://www.slideshare.net/marketingboys/colors-meaning
This picture
denotes the name
of the person
company who
took a specific
photo on a page. I
will use this so
that I’m not
stealing anyone
else’s work.
At the bottom of this double
page spread (DPS) of Ariana
Grande, it gives the reader
information on when her
newest single is out, her new
album that is out now, her
website and the radio channel,
which says “Listen to The Official
Chart, Sundays, 4-7pm, Radio 1”.
I will use this for my magazine
so that reader’s can get the
latest information about their
favourite stars or bands.
On the top of each page, the section of the
magazine has been named, so it’s easier for the
readers to navigate around the magazine.
This is a picture of the page no. located at the
bottom of every page. I will also use this for
my magazine so that the readers can say
what information is on what page. Its also
easier to pick up where you left off by having
page numbers. And it looks best when
they’re at the bottom of the page in the
middle.

7. Test photography
• I could have used the photo on the left for my front cover main image but Harrison
and Lizzie’s eyes are closed, so I cant use this photo. I like the photo on the right,
but I think the photo would look better if everyone in the photo was looking at the
camera.

8. Test photography
• The photo on the left I really like because it has fun poses which are interesting for the
reader to look at and we also can see each of their individual personalities too, so I
think I will use this photo for my double page spread. The photo on the right I will use
for my front cover because it is fun, friendly and everyone in the photo is looking at the
camera.

9. Test photography
• Overall I have concluded that the band for my main image on my front
cover should be an all boy band as Top of the Pops magazine has used an
all boy band, so the previous group could be another group who go in the
corner of my magazine. The photo displayed on the left will be the new
boy band image for my front cover as it is a happy decent and bright
photo. The photo on the right will be used for my double page spread as it
more fun, enjoyable and shows the different instruments that the boys
play in their band which shows their different personalities (because of
the fun pose as well).

10. Front Cover DraftsMain heading
Puff and pug
Cover lines
Price,
barcode
and date
Puff and
pug
Main
image
Name of
star and
main
headline
Cover
lines
Main image and main
headline along with
name of star
Puff
and
pug
Price, barcode and
date

11. Double Page Spread Drafts
Page number
Main image
QuoteMain heading
and anchorage
text
Pictures
dotted over
the page of
the star
Main heading
Quote from
interview
Pictures of
the star
Main image
Interview text
Interview
text
Page
number

12. Graphic layout of First idea

13. Graphic layout of Second idea

14. Front Cover

15. DPS

16. Magazine flat plan first idea 1

17. Magazine flat plan first idea 2

18. Magazine flat plan first idea 3

19. Magazine flat plan second idea