Monday, 5 January 2009

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.

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