Pre-Production Planning Masthead / Typeface I have decided to call my magazine SoundCrash.I have done this because I like the name and I think it illustrates the kind of music I will be putting across with my magazine. As crash is a strong word and you associates it with loud banging noises which is what rock music includes. My magazine has two unique selling points which I think will encourage my target audience even more to buy this magazine. The two points are 1) my magazine enforces new and existing artists to promote them and make it all about the music, and not the ‘fame ’. 2) The second unique selling point of my magazine is that it Involves the fan base as much as possible so they can feel closer to their favourite artists and bands, SoundCrash do this by running monthly competitions to enter your specific fan question for the next month’s upcoming band or artist which one of our journalists will ask them in the interview. I think this will encourage my target audience to not only buy our magazine, also get involved and also this will spread the word about our magazine making it more popular, making more money for SoundCrash. My masthead is going to follow the conventions of many other rock magazines by following the font conventions. This is the fact the text isn’t bright and pink and colourful, as my target audience won’t be attracted t o buy this. And this would be going against conventions of the magazine which I want to produce, therefore it wouldn’t sell.The font is cover to be similar to some of the following popular rock magazines. The sort of typeface I would like is something with is dark and bold and shows a kind of edgy in your face feeling. Some of the below mastheads are from popular music magazines around today which is something along those lines is something I would like to put into my magazine. I think it adds to the rock feeling by having quite a harsh typeface. Photo-shoot / Model From researching certain rock magazines and looking specifically at the model and how they dress / look / act and pose I now have a clear idea of the conventions which these rock magazines follow when styling and creating their models. I can use this to create and style my model to also follow these conventions to ensure I attract my target audience. I understand the s pecific look I have go ne for is very stereotypically but it is the convention of this type of magazine and therefore my audience will appreciate it and feel comfortable purchasing it.
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I have decided to call my magazine SoundCrash. I have done this because I like the
name and I think it illustrates the kind of music I will be putting across with my magazine. Ascrash is a strong word and you associates it with loud banging noises which is what rock
music includes. My magazine has two unique selling points which I think will encourage my
target audience even more to buy this magazine. The two points are 1) my magazine
enforces new and existing artists to promote them and make it all about the music, and not
the ‘fame’. 2) The second unique selling point of my magazine is that it Involves the fan
base as much as possible so they can feel closer to their favourite artists and bands,
SoundCrash do this by running monthly competitions to enter your specific fan question for
the next month’s upcoming band or artist which one of our journalists will ask them in the
interview. I think this will encourage my target audience to not only buy our magazine, also
get involved and also this will spread the word about our magazine making it more popular,
making more money for SoundCrash.
My masthead is going to follow the conventions of many other rock magazines by following
the font conventions. This is the fact the text isn’t bright and pink and colourful, as my target
audience won’t be attracted to buy this. And this would be going against conventions of the
magazine which I want to produce, therefore it wouldn’t sell. The font is cover to be similar
to some of the following popular rock magazines.
The sort of typeface I would like is something with is dark and bold and shows a kind of edgy
in your face feeling. Some of the below mastheads are from popular music magazines
around today which is something along those lines is something I would like to put into my
magazine. I think it adds to the rock feeling by having quite a harsh typeface.
Photo-shoot / Model
From researching certain rock magazines and looking specifically at the model and
how they dress / look / act and pose I now have a clear idea of the conventions
which these rock magazines follow when styling and creating their models. I can use
this to create and style my model to also follow these conventions to ensure I attract
my target audience. I understand the specific look I have gone for is very
stereotypically but it is the convention of this type of magazine and therefore my
audience will appreciate it and feel comfortable purchasing it.
My model is going to wear black clothes this is a stereotypical view point of how someone
who liked rock music would dress but it is a conventional way of portraying this specific
genre of music and people who appreciate it.
After looking at models of preview popular rock magazines for the certain pose they pull I
can see they don’t smile, they either have a blank look or they are pulling some sort of face
which may relate to them playing a certain instrument or singing. So this confirms to me that
my model can’t be standing next to a bus stop with a massive grin on their face. In order to
ensure high sales my model has to follow the conventions that other magazines have laid
down. Below I have included some models of popular rock magazines to get a feel of how I
am going to style and make my model look. I am also going to be taking more than one
photo as I will need one for the front image, one for the contents page and a few for the
double page spread. All of these photos are going to be different as using the same image
isn’t conventional and would look extremely unprofessional and readers would get bored.
I’m going to have my location for my photo-shoot as somewhere with a plain backdrop, for
example a white wall, or a white sheet as a backdrop. This is because I want all of the focuson my model and not the background. This follows the conventions of a magazine as most
cover images have a plain background, if the background was busy and there was cover lines
and a masthead people wouldn’t be able to make any sense of it because it would simply be
too busy.
I’m going to have a medium close up as my cover image as this fits the conventions of a
modern day magazine. It is also going to be portrait this will be easier to edit in, for the
simple reason that if I had a landscape image it would be squashed when I tried to edit into
I decided I was going to ask 20 people and calculate results from this in graph form.
From the results I have collected I can see that the most popular topics are if they are
working on anything new and their/his/hers musical inspirations. So using this information Ihave collected I will create two fan questions to ask in my interview.
What is going to appear inside of my magazine?
Obviously the contents of my magazine is the most vital part as it’s the bit that everyone will
read and hopefully read and enjoy. When working in the media industry it is important to
plan ahead to create a solid structure of what is going to be in the magazine and where
everything is going, this is so the construction stage is much simpler and easier to create.
While creating and planning the construction of my magazine and how I am going to put it
all together I continue to remind myself that I must stick to the conventions of most modernmagazines so the general public feel comfortable buying my magazine. This is that the
masthead is bold and clear and the front cover photo is a midclose up and is clear and not
too busy. I also must be conscious that having a bare code, a date, and a price as clearly
shown as possible is a convention and also a necessity. I have begun designing flat plans
which will give me the specific measurements I need to create my magazine, I will do this in
InDesign. Any specific alterations I want to make to my photos I will do this in Photoshop.
Contents page ideas:
Fan questionnare
How did the band members meet? Working on anything new?
Musical Inspirations? Favourite song they have released?