The document provides details on the planned style and layout of a magazine. It will have dull colors with red as an accent color, to appeal to both genders of its target upper to middle class audience. The masthead font will be visible from a distance and look good in red. The front cover will feature a studio shot of a band with red headings like similar magazines, and two silly posing male models in fashionable clothes. The contents page will have multiple band and album images in a neat layout like another magazine, and feature the double page spread images and models. The double page spread will have a full-page band image on the left with bold quote and article text on the right.

1. Planning

2. Style Sheet
I want the colours of my magazine to
be similar to Q magazine and NME in
the fact that they have dull colours
with one contrasting colour that
stands out to the audience, in this
case red being the contrasting colour,
this also suits my target audience as it
is aimed at both genders. I also don’t
want my magazine to look bright as it
will make the magazine look cheap
this would not suit my target
audience as I am aiming at upper to
middle economic classed people.
I will be using the top underlined font for
my masthead. It is visible from afar and
it would look good with the red colour
behind it.

4. Models, Costumes, Props
The models I will use on my front cover and double page spread will be two males, wearing similar clothes
and styles, both will be acting silly doing a pose with objects such as posts or cloth rails hanging upside
down depending on whether I can get hold of such props. The clothes being worn will be beige
chinos, white t-shirt and a winter coat as shown below. For the models that won’t feature on the front page
one model will wear darker clothes with a slightly more urban look yet still with the fashionable side of
things. Whilst any other models will be wearing relaxed clothes.

5. Front Cover
For my front cover I want a Studio shot of
a band with a similar background, to the
NME magazine to the left, with a red bold
text for the headings and sub headings
alternating between black, red or white
like the picture to the right. The title
Buzzed, will be in a large red font. There
will not be any sub images as the I want
the main focus of the cover to be the main
image and article of the magazine,
however I will be using sub headings on
the outskirts of the cover to advertise
extra content within the magazine, the
front cover should have a glossy effect as
this a monthly magazine, so should have
better quality. Originally I wanted my
models to be stood side by side looking
serious, however my idea has now
developed so that the models are playing
around and posing doing something silly.
The models for my front cover are going
to be all males, and dressed fashionable.

6. Contents Page
My contents page needs to have multiple photos of
different things such as artists or bands images as
well as images of album covers or concerts, it needs
to be fairly packed with contents of the magazine, in
a fairly neat set out. The Kerrang magazine to the
left, shows the sort of layout I want my contents page
to compare to, the contents page layout will have the
word contents in the top left box labelled one in the
same font as my masthead, in box 2 there will be the
main image, that will also appear on my double page
spread, in box 3 and 4 there will be a small image on
other artists, a made up album cover image will
appear in box 5 along with its description in box 6, in
box 7 there will be the editors letter and in box 8
there will be the less important contents labelled
down, in the final box, box 9 there will be a
competition for tickets to a concert. My models for
the contents pages will be the same as the models on
the front page this image will be in box 2, whilst
images 3 and 4 will have models dressed for a
different music genres.
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7. Double Page Spread
The double page spread will be laid out, with the main image as
the background and filling the whole page however the model
will only be on the left hand side of the page with bold text in a
large font at the bottom of the left hand side with a quote from
the text, whilst the main text will be on the right hand side of the
page, similar to the double page spread taken from Q magazine
featuring Florence. It will feature the model band playing about
and acting in an immature fashion. The image will also feature a
white plain background, as this keeps focus on the models rather
than the background. Where box 1 is there will be the main
images of the models, box 2 will overlap box 1 and will have a
quote form box 3 the main article. Box 3 will be the main text
article.
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