Enrolment homework

Ideas for my music magazine

 My magazine will be called echo; because the word “echo” has a relation to sound, the sound of music and I named it this because it shows how long music has been going for and is still strong to this day. The font of the masthead will be big and bold to stand out on the front page, it will be bright red to connote that the writers love music so much and that we have a passion for it and the outline of the title will be in white to make it readable on the silver background. It will be a pop magazine for 16 to 19 year old teenagers.

 The front cover design will be glossy and shiny; it will be silver to be eye-catching and distinguishable amongst the other magazines on sale

And will convince people that it is professional.

The model on the front will of Cheryl Cole because for one she is very popular and known by almost everyone in the U.K, secondly she is one of the many idols for the target audience and thirdly the main cover line is on her.

The background behind Cheryl will be a white background because it was done in a photo-shoot, she will be wearing fashionable clothes and make-up, this will get the girls interested and inspired by it because they will like whatever there idol is wearing and would want to copy it.

The photograph will be a medium shot where you will be able to see the top half of her.

The main cover line will be “Cheryl launches new album” and the tag line will be “see more inside”. Also on the cover will be a photo of little mix, in a group close together to show that there a band, on the left hand corner; the cover line there will be “exclusive little mix interview” along with other cover lines mentioning some of the contents inside the magazine such as “the latest charts news” or the “must buy on iTunes” sections. 

 On the skyline it will have “free poster inside” and “Leeds festival 2014”. The free poster will attract consumers to buy it because its something to decorate their room with and with it coming in free in the magazine they are getting two things worthwhile for the price of one.

The Leeds festival is very popular with many people and having some feature of that in the magazine will get their attention because either they never went and they would like to read about what happened or they are interested in seeing what photos were taken and to read about what happened behind the scenes.

The skyline will be black and the writing on it will be yellow to be easy to read. The magazine will be available as an A4 size and also as a mini A5 size (so its easy to put inside bags).

  The contents of the magazine will consist of:

* Introduction and editors note.

* Latest fashion trends for boys and girls.

*Cheryl talks exclusively about her new album (main)

*Latest chart news

*Must buy on iTunes

*Exclusive interview with little mix

* Behind the scenes of this year’s Leeds festival

*Poster

* Mail

*This weeks x factor auditions

*Completion time

*Crosswords

*Daily horoscopes

*Next issue

 The main article is about Cheryl Cole returning to England after recording an album in America. The album is being released in the U.K this week. The images in this two-page spread are photographs of celebrities at the launch night to show their including Cheryl herself in a formal and nice white dress to stand out and once again make the reader interested. The men will be wearing suits and the women will be wearing dresses. There will be 9 photos on the two pages some are in a bigger size than others because they are more important (mostly because they have Cheryl on them) the images will have captions from the writer on them because that’s what all magazines do, it’s a common thing. The article features an exclusive interview with Cheryl regarding the types of songs on her album on the next page. There will be images of the album (front and back) to show the reader what to look out for.

The album will also be released on iTunes because teenagers now download music onto portable devices such as their iPods or iPhones.

 Cheryl also talks about her time in America and how exited she is to be back home and launch her new album; she mentions she is very grateful for all the support from her fans and her friends. In the album there will be hints about tour dates to get the reader engaged and hyped.

 Other features in the magazine include a poster, which will be of take that because for one it’s a boy band which seems to be very popular with the target audience of teens. The interview with little mix will spread over one page whilst some photographs are on the page next to it. Every other article in the magazine has 2 pages to it; with the exception of the fashion which takes over 4 pages and the crosswords, daily horoscopes which have 1 page each.

The target audience is sixteen to nineteen year olds male, female, Cheryl Cole and girl and boy band fans and fashion fanatics. They like gossip, the latest news regarding their idols and a free poster to put up on their wall. They dislike any depressing real life stories, they may talk about it but that doesn’t mean they like to think about it nor do they want to see it in a music magazine. They read to escape from bad real life so they look up to famous people for escapism instead of fiction.

They also dislike heavy metal bands (which is why I will not be including the likes of muse) and anything education related because that would irritate them. In their spare time they listen to music, have house parties, fashion, latest gossip, hair and beauty.