Starter Task

5 feature articles for double page spread.

1. Interview
2. Review
3. New Albumn Release/Review
4. History Of.... (Band Success Profile)
5. Diary Of A Band.
6. Expose - personal profile of the band/artist
7. Top 100/Top 10
8. Awards Ceremony


5 Generic elements of a double page spread.

1. Page Numbers
2. Title
3. Image
4. Text in colums
5. House style
6. Pull quotes (could be the title)
7. Drop Caps at the start of the article.
8. By-lines : Crediting the journalist & photographer.

Magazine Cover Draft

MASTHEAD IDEAS.

I visited www.dafont.com to check out fonts i could use for my masthead

Sadly none of these were to my taste, so i decided to create my own in photoshop.

First i picked Agency FB, i wrote it in small case and added bold effect and stretched to make the letters the same size and width i then coloured it red and put a white border around it but i felt this looked to much like NME's masthead to defeat this I then used various brushes with the colour set to black to give the text a grungy look. I placed it on a black background and added red stripes along the top and bottom edges.

Feedback:

I told people in my class about my idea "IMPACT!"
i was told that this seemed like a very suitable name for a magazine of my chosen subgenre.

Magazine Ideas.

Idea One:

Target Audience
Mainstream audience. 16-24 year old males AND females.

Sub Genre
Alternative/Rock

Title Of Magazine + Connotations
Impact- heavy - like drums/ guitars, noisy- loud, violent- crazy/mad serious, life changing - good, you need it, collision- crash- crashing of cymbals, strong - powerful, makes a difference - you need it.

Ideas For Cover Image
Boys vs Girls - a boy and girl boxing gloves girl

Splash Article
Splash article would be Boys VS Girls
"lead singers" from two bands one male lead singer and one female
rival bands.

Possible Contents
Live reviews, News, gigs, Albumn reviews,features of "existing bands name"


Idea Two:

Target Audience
Mainstream audience. 16-24 year old males AND females.

Sub Genre
Alternative

Title Of Magazine + Connotations
EPIC - Really good, mad, crazy.

Ideas For Cover Image
Band pic

Splash Article
new music from "BANDNAME"

Possible Contents


Idea Three:

Target Audience
Mainstream audience. 16-24 year old males AND females.

Sub Genre
Alternative/Rock

Title Of Magazine + Connotations/u>

Ideas For Cover Image

Splash Article

Possible Contents

Starter Task

Mainstream - Aimed at wider mass audience, popular content high circulation and high readership figures.

e.g Kerrang, Q, Rolling stone.

Niche - Aimed at a specific smaller group/type of audience.
Niche products have smaller circulation and readership figures.

e.g Classical fm, County

What i have learnt and achieved

Last week I learnt how to use Quark express.
I have finished my college magazine cover and contents page.

I plan to finish research about magazine companies; Bauer and IPC Media.