Natasha Newton collected initial ideas for a magazine focused on alternative rock music. After receiving feedback, she decided to focus the magazine on folk music aimed at females aged 27-34. The final magazine idea incorporates lighter pastel colors and images with a black and white or sepia effect across pages featuring band photos, reviews, and competitions.

1. MAIN TASK
INITIAL IDEAS
By Natasha Newton

2. AIM AND PURPOSE
 The aim and purpose of this slide show is to collect
my three initial magazine ideas so that they can be
shown to my peers, who can then give me feedback on
what I have shown them. This then allows me to see
the most popular initial idea, which will then be used
in my magazine.

3. IDEA ONE
 Genre: Rock genre • Images: Natural lighting, black and
 Sub Genre: Alternative Rock. white.
 Audience: Teenagers and Adolescents • Front page: Large photo of the band
in colour, taking up the whole page,
 Age: 14 - 21 coverlines along the left and right
 Aimed at both males and females. hand side explaining what is inside.
 House Style: Darker colours (Black, • Double page spread: Each band
Greys, Dark Reds and Purples) on a member will have their own image,
white background. Bold fonts, and one of the band as a whole.
distinctive type face to grab readers • Contents page: Images will be placed
attention. along the right hand side of the
 Including: Album reviews, gig contents page with list of contents
review/experience, new tour dates. along the left side.

4. IDEA TWO
 Genre: Alternative Rock  Images: Black and white and high
 Sub Genre: Indie Rock saturation images.
 Audience: Young Adults  Front page: main image will be in black
 Age: 20 – 30 and white and the masthead will be at
 Aimed more at males than females. the top of the page, coverlines will
 House style: Lighter colours such as mainly be one side of the page.
Greens, Blues, and Greys. The text  Double page spread: Band image will be
will be mainly in Italics. Lighter in the middle of the page and the text
backgrounds, same font used will be around it. There will be smaller
throughout. images placed around the page.
 Including: Free gift, about the band,  Contents page: Medium side images
behind the scenes info, making of along the bottom of the page, list of
the album. contents will going down the middle of
the page.

5. IDEA THREE
 Genre: Folk Front page: One large photo of the band
 Age of audience: 30 – 40 in the centre of the page, coverlines will
 Aimed at both males and only be on the right hand side of the
females. page, masthead will be positioned at the
 House style: Brighter colours, top of the page.
such as Greens, Blues, Purples Double page spread: Band image will be
and Reds. Regular fonts will be
used. positioned on the right hand side of the
page, and smaller images will be scattered
 Including: Competition to win
to see the band, album review, across the page.
about the band Contents page: List of magazine contents
 Images: Brightly coloured will be along the left hand side of the
images used on all pages. page, with small images running along
the right side.

6. TITLE

7. FEEDBACK
 From the peer feedback on my initial idea’s the most popular music genre for my
magazine was folk.
 They preferred this genre because they believed that this idea was more developed
than the others, and I had a better idea of what I wanted to do.
 They also said that I needed to change the audience for my magazine to more females
because of the feminine features of the magazine, they also suggested that I lowed the
target age range of the magazine.
 Another thing which they suggested needed changing was the colours used in the
house style to more lighter pastel colours because they believe that those colours suit the
genre of music better.

8. FINAL IDEA
 Genre: Folk Front Page: One large band photo will take
 Audience: Females aged up most of the page, with coverlines on either
between 27 and 34 sides of the image with the masthead at the
 House style: Pastel colours top of the page
with a regular font used Double Page Spread: Large band photo on
throughout. the right hand side of the page, with smaller
 Including: About the band, individual photos on the left and scattered
Album review and various across both pages.
competitions. Contents Page: List of magazine contents
 Images: All images will have will be positioned along the left hand side of
a black and white or sepia the page with smaller images related to the
effect. listings along the right hand side.