The magazine will target those over age 20, including both males and females, as its audience for classical music. It will include a CD of classical music to advertise to readers. The suggested price is £2:50. Some proposed masthead names that represent classical music are "The Vibe", "Pastiche", "Harmony Magazine", "Classique", "Intune", "Classy", "Musically Sound", and "Soundout". The front cover will feature a man playing the trumpet in a spotlight against a dark blue background, using gold fonts to match the color of the trumpet. The contents page will include images of the band the man plays in, showing them performing or together casually.

1. Music magazine over brief
The music genre I have chosen is classical
The target audience is for both male and females of over the age of 20. This is
as most teenagers aren’t into much classical music, and therefore is more
designed for the older generation as they are more likely to like this type of
genre of music and buy the magazine.
Age 20+ is going to be the target audience
Gender is both male and female
The magazine will include a CD of classical music for advertise the audience to
buy
Other types of classical music magazines and maybe jazz magazines as they are
quite similar genres of music.
Price of the magazine would be around £2:50

2. Masthead suggestions names
•The Vibe
•Pastiche – It means an art work combining materials from various sources/ combined
music from different instruments
•Harmony magazine.
•Classique
•Intune
•Classy
•Musically sound
•Soundout
•Express
These are some of the ideas that I have had for my music magazine’s masthead. This
will be it’s brand identity and therefore needs to represent the genre of classical music
well and I want the names of my masthead to have connotations to the audience that
will make the audience feel tuned in and represent to them clearly that this is a
classical music magazine.

3. The front cover and contents page colour scheme:
Dark colours such as a dark blue background and the image
will be in a spotlight so that the person in the image stands
out. Also gold colours, such as some gold fonts to match the
colours of the trumpet.
The colours will be mainly sticking to the theme of gold's and
blue as gold is usually the colour of musical instruments and it
goes well together with the colours of blue.
Background colours ideas
Font colour
ideas (Will
match the
colour of the
instrument.)
Here I have been
looking at colour
schemes that work
well together.
There could be
good ideas for font
colours and image
colours as they
make the page
more appealing to
teenagers due to
the brightness and
vividness of the
colours.

4. Image ideas

5. Front cover key image ideas
The front over image will be of a guy playing a
trumpet, as a trumpet is a classical instrument.
He will be faced towards the camera as if the
audience were to look into the trumpet.
He will be dressed quite formally and be in a
spotlight to help the image stand out from the
dark blue background.
Inspiration ideas
Typical front cover of a
music magazine.
•Posed
•Looking directly towards
the camera,
•Wearing dark, formal
colours with light
background.
•Looks professional
For my front cover I want my image to look professional and
formal, wearing formal clothing which is typical of a classical music
magazine. I would also have the props of a violin and classical music
instruments so that it attracts the target audience of classical music
lovers.

6. Contents page image ideas
•Images will be of the band that the guy on the front cover plays
in. This includes a violin player, and piano player.
•Another image could be of the band playing in front of the
crowd or the band members hanging out together
•Also another image could be the band winning a award or
showing of their award. This shows the sophistication of the
band
For my images I want them to suit my target
audience of both the younger and older
generation and audience of the niche market
for those into classical music.
I want the formality of my images to suit the
classical music genre, therefore my models
will have to be in quite formal
clothing, representing this.
In order to make my images suit teenagers as
well as adults I want my images to look
fun, exciting, eye catching and
appealing, therefore will use different kinds
of fun props to represent this such as
balloons and confetti etc. This isn't a typical
feature to a classical music magazine as they
are usually very formal with the props being
just the persons key instrument but as my
target audience is wider I am defining this
convention.
These are examples of
typical classical magazine
contents page imagery.
Types of images I want.
Fun, with appealing fun
props, happy poses and
joyful facial expressions etc.

7. Font ideas:
Masthead
For my masthead I decided for it to be called “Intune.”
I want to call it this as it gives connotations to the
reader that if they read my magazine they would be
kept “Intune” with the latest music and classical music.
I decided that I would want my masthead to represent
the classical music genre and therefore have decided
that for my letter “I” to use a music note of a “Treble”
to represent the classical music genre.
For my main body font for my music magazine I would want it to
be quite formal to suit the genre but not to formal as the tone is
quite chatty and if the fonts to formal it means that it might not be
as appealing to the audience and might change the tone of voice.
This is a quite formal font but die to it
being a serif font it isn’t to formal and
I think that would make it appeal to
my audience of my magazine due to
it emphasising it's chatty, formal tone.