Photo's For My Magazine

Draft Front Cover, Contents Page & Double Page Spread

Draft of my front cover.

I'm going to feature other artists who are already well known and are in media already. As well as featuring Ami as the new artist.

Draft of contents page. As well as Ami other artists who are already well known. Also I will have a list of all the other bands featured.

Draft of double page spread. Photo and article on Ami.

Contents Page

My contents page will be split up into two different features, one will be features which would be seen in this particular issue and regulars.
Features-
Interview with the artist featured on the front cover.
Interviews with the artists featured in the week's magazine.
Regulars-
Band index (a list of bands featured in the magazine)
Any upcoming gigs and tours.
Reviews of albums.
Posters.

For my features section, I'm going to feature other artists as well as my main artist who will be the main feature of my front cover.
I'm going to give my regular features different names like other music magazine's have, for example my band index will be called 'a-z of bands', upcoming tours will be called 'gigs & tours', album reviews will be called 'reviews' and posters will just be called 'posters'.
To make my magazine seem like essential reading I'm going to make my reviews interesting instead of them seeming repetitive, for example instead of giving every band and artist a good review, I will give some bands mixed reviews and some may even get bad reviews.

The Front Cover

I'm going to brainstorm a few idea's for the colour schemes of my magazine, the colour schemes will have to change each fornight as I will hopefully be producing more than one magazine.
Red-Blue-Yellow. These are the primary colours and will mostly appeal to everyone. Also the colours go well together.
Blue and Grey.
Yellow and Orange.
Red and Pink.
Green.
Purple and Blue.
I'm going to feature other bands and artists who fit into the indie/rock genre in my magazine and who are also in the news as well. For example I could feature Amy Winehouse who is in the news recently for pouring a drink over a hotel guest's head. Mystery Jets who are playing two gigs in Amercia. I'm going to pick a artist who will feature on the front cover of my magazine, I'm going to pick Amy Winehouse as the artist. She's in the news recently for giving up drugs.

Basics of a Music Magazine

I'm going to brainstorm some idea's for a name for my magazine.
Noise.
Pulse.
Rock&Roll Magazine.
Music Weekly.
Teenagers and people in their early 20's will be able to afford my magazine as it will be in the price range that they could afford. The price of the magazine will be not really expensive but not really cheap either. My magazine will be aimed at the same type of people who will buy NME magazine, NME magazine is the magazine I am basing my magazine on. IPC Media who produce NME say that 'almost two in every three women and over 44% of UK men read an IPC magazine. That's over 26 million adults'. My magazine will be printed on high quality paper to make sure that the colours look bright and not dull.
My magazine is going to be released every two weeks. By releasing it every two weeks I will make sure that I have different news stories on bands. If I released my magazine every week, I would have the same news stories as the week before and I would just be repeating myself. Also by releasing it every two weeks, I will have more choice of albums and gigs to review.

I've got some idea's for how my music magazine is going to look and who is going to featured on the front cover. On the front cover I'm going to have a picture of my friend Ami, I'm not going to feature a band just an artist. I'm also going to feature some other real bands who are in the media for whatever reason. The picture for the front cover is going to be a picture of Ami either posing against a brightly coloured wall or outside. The idea which I like the most is her posing against a brightly coloured wall. My double page spread is going to be about Ami as she is going to be an up and coming artist who has already had a hit single and her new album is coming out, abit like Lilly Allen or Amy Winehouse. The picture is going to take up one and half pages of the double page spread. On my contents page I am going to have another picture of Ami and some other pictures of other bands who are in the media that week. Again the picture of the featured artist will take up most of the page.
I've had some idea's about the main headline on the double page spread.
'Take Over'- because she is taking the music industry by storm with her new single and up and coming album.
'Ami'- to make sure that the audience remember her name and have an idea of who she is.