Front Cover Photos

I have recently taken the photos I am going to use for my magazine's front cover, contents page and double-paged article. Here are the photo's I will be using for my front cover:

  

This is the main image I have chosen to use for my front cover. I originally decided to use three models for my images but after taking them I discovered that one did not fit the theme of the images or my magazine.



I took other images to use on the footer of my magazine. Each photo I have used the models are looking at the camera with a similar pose.

Proposal Form

Genre: I chose to create an indie/rock magazine. I chose to do this because although there are a lot of magazines with the same genre on the market at the moment I think there is a space for a more current magazine which will promote more artists. I will keep to the general conventions by keeping a theme of rock and indie throughout my magazine.

Target Audience: I have decided to make my magazine to target a mixed gender audience aged 14-20 years old. I intend to make my magazine unisex by keeping the house style the same with a colour scheme of black, white and dark red. These colours appeal to my unisex audience while representing the genre of my magazine.

Major conventions: My magazine will follow the typical conventions of a magazine. It will include a masthead, subtitles, photographs. banners etc. This is so my magazine looks professional and will fit in with other magazines on the market.

Model Permission

After choosing my models I asked each person for their permission to use the photos I took of them for my magazine. I showed the models the photographs before publishing them to make sure they were comfortable with the images being used. I did this to make myself and the model more at ease of the photographs being shown to the public, just to make sure they approve of the images of themselves.

Uses and Gratifications

First Front Cover Draft

This is the first draft of my front cover:

I have decided on where to place my magazine title and the colour as well as the barcode placement. So far this is quite basic but I will continue to add to it as I progress further.

 

Double Page Spread Flat Plans

Here is my flat plan for my double paged spread. This is the design of how I would like my article to look and I will be looking back to ensure they're at least similar.

Contents Page Flat Plans

Here is my flat plan for my contents page. This is the design of how I would like my contents page to look and I will be looking back to ensure they're at least similar.

 

Front Cover Flat Plans

Here is my flat plan for my front cover. This is the design of how I would like my front cover to look and I will be looking back to ensure they're at least similar.



Publishing Companies Part 2 - IPC Media

A quote from the IPC Media website:

‘With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events.  As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher we engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. Our award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million users globally every month.’

 

The three publishing divisions of IPC Media are: IPC Connect, IPC Inspire and IPC Southbank.

 IPC Inspire, has a wealth of leisure brands including Country Life, Horse & Hound, Rugby World and Decanter, as well as lifestyle brands includingNuts, Mousebreaker and NME. IPC Inspire targets the market for men so this could be a good publisher for my magazine as my target audience includes men.

However, IPC Connect may be better as it targets the mass market’s women. Though IPC Southbank also targets women, I wouldn’t publish my magazine with IPC Southbank as it targets upmarket women whereas my magazine is targeted towards both teenage girls and boys.

This magazine publisher could be a bit too sophisticated for my genre of music magazine.

Publishing Companies Part 1 - Bauer Media Group

A Quote from the Bauer website:

 ‘The Bauer Media Group is one of the most successful media companies in the world. More than 570 magazines, over 300 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations reach millions of people around the globe. The company’s portfolio also includes printing companies, postal services and services in the fields of distribution, marketing and media sales. The Group’s turnover is stable at more than two billion euros. With a new global positioning strategy, the Bauer Media Group underscores its passion for people and brands. The claim “We think popular“ highlights the Bauer Media Group’s perception of itself as a publisher of popular media and provides inspiration and motivation to its more than 11,000 employees in 16 countries’

 

‘With the recent addition of the former Emap Consumer Media titles, Bauer is now the largest consumer magazine publishing company in the UK, playing a primary role in the Women’s Weeklies, Women’s Interest, Women’s Lifestyle, TV Listings, Puzzles, Men’s Lifestyle, Music & Film and Specialist magazine markets.’

 

The Bauer Media Group publishes music magazines such as Q and Kerrang! as well as lifestyle magazines such as That's Life! and Take A Break.

 

Bauer could potentially be a good publisher for my magazine, as it publishes music magazines with a similar genre and target audience as my magazine.  However, this could work against my magazine as well as the company may see it as competition for Kerrang!

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Reader Profile

This is the reader profile for my magazine.

 

 

 

A reader profile is to show the typical social and economic characteristics of the reader of a magazine. It normally shows what types of things the reader is interested in. Such as, what the reader likes to buy, do in their spare time and what they think is important.

I took inspiration for my reader profile from the magazine NME.