My music magazine proposal

Proposal for music magazine:

The front cover, contents page and middle page are some of the most important parts of a magazine.
The front cover, as well as the features that it includes, is one of the main selling points to a magazines, it uses things like colours, layouts and snappy slogans to get the readers attention. It also has the advantage as to give the reader a short insight into what’s inside the magazine.
The contents page is there to give us a snippet but not too much information about what the article includes, often leaving an open question so that we feel the need to open the magazine and read on.
The middle page of any decent magazine will include the feature or the main article; it will often be hear that you would find that over anticipated exclusive with the top band or the very famous star.

The main aim or focus that I want my music magazine to have is that it is enjoyable and gripping with good articles. I am going to try, effectively to include the methods that are crucial to the selling of a successful magazine and employ the strategies that make a good article, as I mentioned before this may include the layout and the affective writing.
Before I start work on the magazine, I am going to do research into my target audience and the things that they like to read in an article so that I can then put this into practice in my work.

Methods:
I plan to use an online survey that contains an array of questions that I have come up with, that features around magazines and other music based topics. By doing this I can get an outlook of what would be popular subjects to place in my work.
I am also placing all of the work that I do onto an online blog site, this way I can record what I have done so far and what I need to do in the future.
As well as this research I have also decoded and looked at other more well known magazine to get a feel of what sort of things I should be doing and understanding the things that have made them popular and trying to apply them to my own work.
A lot of time has also been spent looking at colours and what they mean, layouts that will attract attention, different camera angles and shots so that I can identify with pictures that I may want to include and how to make them tell a story without writing anything, also I need to make these pictures worthy of a professional standard magazine.

To start my work I will look through a popular and well-known magazine and find an affective layout style that I can take point from and transfer into my own work, as I have never made a magazine before this is important. I plan to find a number of different layouts so that I can then put them to use in the future if I need them.
Next I am going to copy out a rough sketch of the layout I have chosen to do and then transfer it to Microsoft publisher so that it then forms the foundations for my magazine. When I have thought about the things that I want to include in my work I have to start to think about the colours and make sure that the colours I use flatter the picture, also making sure that I take full advantage of the fonts and style and getting the title that brandishes the name for my magazine in a unique font that none other will use. I intend to have a snappy story or quote that will get my readers wanting to read more as well as this I have an affective original image of an up and coming band.

Audience:
I will aim my magazines at about the age of 15 to 19 and try and make it appeal to females in particular because I feel that I already have a slight advantage, so I am going to make it have a fresh new look and talk about things that generally this age group and sex will be able to relate to. I will use the appropriate colours that back up my intention to make it for females and teenagers. That will be colour like bright pinks, oranges and purples. The subjects and the pictures that I will include will appeal to the female audience. I plan to have articles like fashion and the pictures will mostly be of this target audience. I have taken a risk in making my product for females because it is going against a lot of conventions because most magazines mainly cater for men or both men and women.
I will not price the magazine as a lot of money because if I am appealing at teenagers there is a high chance that they may not be in full time employment or work at all. I think that my magazine will be generally meant for everyone not singling out any culture or religion as the things that I will be mentioning will not show any offence to any cultures. I think that I would try and make it a magazine that would appeal to groups like music lovers and festival goers, but also I would try and include other things like what the people in it are wearing and so it could also cater for people that are interested in fashion.

Equipment:
The equipment that will be most essential in this project will be the computer.
I say this because all of the work that I will be doing will be done on the computer. A majority of the work that I will be doing will be Microsoft publisher, this is a device that allows you to create things like posters and leaflets, but also offers the structures and the tools to create things like this.
Another useful tool on the computer will be Picasa because this is where I will be editing the photos that I have taken so that they will look affective on my magazine. Picasa is where I can crop and add details to the pictures and also change colours, take out mistakes and generally perfect my pictures which I can then transfer to my magazine.
As I am doing an online survey I need to use a computer and the internet on a regular basis to check on the progress of my survey, I am using survey monkey to ask questions about music and music magazines and to see what my target audience like and dislike. Through this I get a rough idea of what I should be putting in my music magazine and also by using this website it automatically analyses what people have said.
I have also created a blog site where I can put all of my written work as well as the results of the survey and pictures of the magazine.
Another piece of equipment that I may need to use is a digital camera or a phone because this is how I will take the photos in the first place. As I am doing my magazine on a band they will also need props like guitars ect.