Planning- Ideas

Idea 1: Friendly rock music magazine

Focuses:

• Reviews on music
• Opinions of music by band members
• focuses on music and anecdotes by celebrities

The target audience will be both genders but tipping towards female slightly. I want a young age range, so 16-24. 

I would like the style of writing to be friendly and informal as inspired by Kerrang.

Finally house style colours would be black, white and crimson. I want a bold 'in-your-face' and bright typography on the cover. Especially for the masthead.

                                                    

Final choice:
I've chosen to do a friendly styled Rock music magazine. I think it will be different from what i'm used to listening to and fun. I believe it will apply to the market research I've carried out. Majority of participants wanted rock, so rock they shall get. I want to stick to what my target results showed to ensure I get the best results for my magazine. I want to use dark and bright colours so I think a black, white and dark red colour scheme would be suitable. It would attract a unisex audience as well because they are gender neutral colours. I think the image should be a single person as it draws more attention because it has that simple but effective look to it. I want the front image to be quite edgy and powerful and I also want to use a female model for the front cover. On the contents page and double page spread I want to feature male and female artists. I think a friendly, funny style of writing would suit best fro 16-24 because it's relatable and something the readers can identify with. 




Idea 2; Pop music magazine

Focuses

• Lifestyle of artists
• music and tour dates
• celebrity interviews
• promotes bands

The target audience would be female orientated. It would have a slightly older audience, 18-30.

I want it to be bright and colourful so I want to use colours like blue, red and green. I would like a bold, blue and white masthead on the front cover. 

The writing style would be semi formal, having a bit of fun but still keeping to the point of the music magazine. 

Idea 3: Country

Focuses:

• The singers and bands lives and lifestyle
• anecdotes
• focuses more on artists than music

The target audience would be gender neutral. I would like an older target audience but still quite young so about 21-30.

Dusty, hazy colour scheme. Black and white typography across the cover, contents and double page spread. Colours suitable; black & white writing; sunset colours, orange, blonde, brown, blue. 

I would like the writing style to be very direct and friendly, like you were talking to a friend.