Our magazine will be a multi-genre, professional quality magazine featuring a mix of cutting edge and classic music. Its target audience will be affluent 24 - 30 year olds, who have an enthusiastic taste in music. Although it will be a unisex magazine, there will be a slight male bias as there is most of the popular music magazines.
The magazine will be an A5 compact magazine when printed, and will have a maximum page count of 50 pages, filled with features that everyone will want to read. It will cut most of the more niche, lesser quality articles that you usually skip in music magazines, and this will also cut costs. It is partly influenced by the sucess of i newspaper, which is thin and only contains the main articles.
Because it is a quality magazine, it will be printed on good quality glossy paper.It will also scream 'proffesionalism' and there will be no tabloidy, sensationalist writing.
The sell line will either be: 'For Serious Music Lovers' or 'No compromise' and the title will be 'alpha.' in lower case, with a full stop at the end and the Greek Alpha symbol replacing the A's. We haven't yet decided on the frequency of the magazine, but we will ask this in the questionnaire.
Some features will include:
- A double spread page of album reviews. The main album will be on one side with a large picture on it too, and 8 more much shorter reviews will be fitted on the other side.
This week in [genre], which will span several features.
As a note, We have banned the colour red from the colour scheme of magazine cover, because it is used in so many other magazines. Most of the colours on the front cover will be monochromatic and neutrals - which look sophisticated - but we will have one bright colour used too.
Callum: My issue will be the Christmas edition. My front cover image will contain a collage of album covers from 2011 that leads to my main feature on the 50 Best Albums & Tracks Of The Year. Since we are changing the colour of our logo each issue (something the latest run of NME's have managed to successfully pull off), mine will be gold which reflects the festive period. On the contents page, there will be an image from a photo shoot that will contain three models representing three members of a band (guitarist, bassist, vocalist) frozen by camera shot mid "song" whilst playing their instruments. This, and the 50 Best Albums & Tracks feature, will be the only two non-regular features included in this issue due to the severe length of the 50 Best Albums & Tracks feature. To help make up the space, the image used on the inside, from the photoshoot will be quite large. Finally, my double page spread will be an extract from the 50 Best Albums & Tracks feature.
Chad: My issue will be the June edition. This means that my issue can be a Music Festival Special, and can feature little guides on every festival, tips on each festivals, music from each band thats playing etc... My logo will mostly green, but perhaps with a white outline. The rest of the colours used on the front cover will be those from our house style, which will be monochromatic and neutral, apart from perhaps some other uses of green. My contents page will feature a large atmospheric festival photo which suits the festival theme. My double page spread will be a spread reviewing the albums of the festival acts playing.
Some good ideas here. You need to make sure you are clear, look at the first paragraph last sentence. 'there is most of the popular' doesn't really make sense. Also look at your spelling of 'proffesionalism' not quite right! Take care as you work within Level 4 and are very promising students, don't let grammatical slips spoil your use of language and register mark.
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