The magazine will target 12-18 year olds with a focus on both males and females interested in sports. It will be challenging to appeal to both younger and older audiences. The magazine theme will be sports with sections on local sports clubs and activities. The front page will have a bold title, price, issue details and headlines while interior spreads will feature large pictures alongside article text and quotes to engage readers.

1. Pitch to Client

2. Target Audience
O Aimed at 12-18 year olds
O Aimed at males and females
O Mainly aimed at people who enjoy sports

3. Problems with Target
Audience
O Hard to get content that will appeal to an 18
year old boy and a 12 year old girl
O Will need to have pictures and things that
appeal to a younger audience
O Will also need to have quality content to
appeal to an older audience as well

4. Theme
O The theme of my magazine will be sports
based, a range of sports from football to
athletics
O The magazine will also feature a youth
culture section
O The youth culture section will inform people
about local sports clubs and activities they
can get involved with

5. Design – Front Page
Bold
Title
By line: Your
Times Your
Life
Compact price
of magazine,
small but
noticeable
These blank
boxes
represent
headlines of
articles
Issue
number
and date
Barcode
Picture will be the
main focus of
background yet
remain in background
behind text
The main article
title will be
centred to make it
noticeable
Maybe a quote
from the article
or a brief
summary
Background
picture will fill in
blank areas

6. Design - Double Page Spread
Bold Title/
Brief
summary of
article
This column
will be the
text of the
article
This will be a quote
from the article in a
bigger font size to
give an idea what
the article is about
Here we will see a
big picture of the
person/ people the
article is focused
on, probably an
action shot
Here will be a
picture; most
likely of a group
of people
involved in the
particular topic
These two boxes
is where the
article will
continue, or
instead be an
interview with
the person the
article is about
This will be a
landscape shot of
the location that
the article is
focusing on