Double page spread mood board

The typical conventions of a double page spread are a large image,   a quote,the feature of the articles name somewhere on the page, a 'stand’ which is a small explanation at the beginning of the article explaining what it is about. Text, images, headline,by-lines, colour scheme, drop capital and quotes. These features will usually always be on a double page spread.

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Mood Board - contents page

This is a mood board of different contents pages taken from magazine with the same or similar genres to mine. They all have most of the typical contents page conventions. The conventions of contents pages are, one main image; this is usually linking to the feature article in your magazine. Other smaller images ,page numbers on the images, telling the audience where they will find the article about the person in the images, the name of the magazine somewhere on the page, the main title ‘Contents’. Subheadings such as ‘news’, ‘features’ ,subscription and contact information, editors letter and the same house style as the rest of the magazine.
By researching other contents pages and learning more about the conventions I am able to use them in my own contents page.

Initial title block design

There are my four initial title block designs, I will be using one of these for my music magazine depending on the results of my poll.

Design 1Design 2Design 3

Design 4

Magazine proposal

This is my magazine proposal. After my plan I did a focus group who gave me feedback about my plan and what they thought should change. This helped me put together my proposal.

Title block analysis

I have analysed different title blocks from popular music magazines. By analysing these title blocks I can try and figure out what I want my title block to look like and what stands out to the audience.

Title Block Analysis

	The colours in the title block are red and white, similar to the mainstream tabloid magazines such as the Sun. You can tell that the genre of the magazine isn’t going to be something like rock because the colours are quite bright, not black or dark colours it is most likely going to be hip hop or R&B because of the bright colours.  Rolling stone is usually associated with the old but popular and iconic band ‘’the rolling stones’’ which means the title of the magazine is related with iconic music.
	The colours in this title block are red and white like the popular tabloid magazines such as the sun. They tell you that the magazine is going to be mainstream and the genre will most likely be something like hip hop or R&B. The title of the magazine is NME, which is quite short and snappy; this might mean that the magazine is going to be the same, short snappy articles and nothing too serious. It also says under the title block ‘’new musical express’’ which is obviously what NME stands for, this tells us that the music featured in NME will be new and maybe not the traditional mainstream artists.
	.The title of this magazine is KERRANG! The title automatically gives off a punk/rock type of vibe. Along with the name of the title it is also in black which again suggests that the genre is going to be rock, they also use a exclamation mark at the end of the word KERRANG which implies that the title is being shouted, a lot like rock music. The target audience for this magazine would be people that are interested in rock music, the title shows this with the colour, the bold capital font and the exclamation mark

Magazine Proposal - character profile

This is a character profile for the ideal person from my target audience. I gathered information from my survey and focus group and was able to put together a character profile for someone who would purchase my magazine.

Magazine Proposal - Character profile.

My ideal character profile is a girl called Ronnie-Ann Barthram who is 16 from east London. She currently attends college and her interests include listening to music, meeting new people, going out with her friends and art. She studies media, history, English and biology in college. Her favourite subject is media and she is extremely interested in the music industry. She hopes to be a journalist or musician when she’s older. My magazine would be ideal for Ronnie as she is interested in music and mainly R&B. She enjoys listening to mainstream artists as well as discovering new unsigned ones too. She fits in to my lifestyle categories because she is young, she doesn’t take life too seriously and wants to have fun while still aiming high. She could be classed as an egoist, but many other lifestyle categories are included in my target audience such as trendies, rebels, groupies, cynics and cowboys. Ronnie’s social class would be from C2 – E, this fits in with my target audience because these are the kind of people that would maybe be interested in reading an R&B magazine.

Focus group

The feedback that I got from my focus group helped me to make final decisions on what I wanted my magazine to be like. I got an idea about what my target audience felt about some of my ideas for example the price and how often it would be released. This helped me to change some things so that my audience would be happier with my final magazine.