After researching different music magazines, which explore the different genres of music throughout the music industry, I have finally come to an conclusion of doing a pop and gossip music magazine. I have taken an interest in this particular genre because I listen to quite a lot of pop music, from artists such as Britney spears, Beyonce, Lily Allen and Lady GaGa. By choosing a genre that i enjoy gives me an advantage of exploring and creating something that i would enjoy reading my self.
Audience
The target audience I am going to aim my magazine at are teenagers aged 16, to young adults aged 23. This gives me a chance to introduce artist that are popular with this age group, Such as Britney Spears or Lady GaGa, and create an artist of my own, similar age and style to other artists of this genre. Because of these artist are all women, my main gender of the audience will be women however hopefully men will take an interest. It will catch women's interest by including this that they enjoy reading such as the latest gossip of celebrities, new and upcoming artists of the music genre, fashions the artists are wearing, and interviews from the artists featured in the magazine.
Featured Artist
I have chosen to feature an artists which will be new and upcoming. I am modeling my artist on the artists of the pop genre, again like Britney and Beyonce. Therefore my artist will be one women, aged 20 -25. By choosing this type of artist, it gives the audience someone they can relate to and have an interest in. To advertise this new artist, I will be featuring her on the front cover of the magazine, and on a double page spread, were she will be doing an interview with the magazine I will also do tour dates of this artist.
Masthead ideas
Magic -I think 'magic' would be a good name for a magazine as it is short, and catchy so that audiences would be able to remember it, however it has no reference to music or the music industry, but there is already a music radio station called 'magic'. So this name has its disadvantages.
Fusion- 'Fusion' is one of my favorite names for my magazine, it is short and catchy and has some relation to music, as it is the name of a type of genre, however it is not the music genre that I am focusing on, which is the disadvantage of this name.
Electric - 'Electric', I think would be a good name for a music magazine. It gives an exciting aspect to the magazine, and could be referred to music genre. It is short and catchy, and would make the magazine stand out, however it doesn't seem to be the right word for a girly, pop music magazine.
Bubblegum- 'Bubblegum' can also be refereed to bubblegum pop, a type of music genre. It is fun and quirky, and would suit this genre of magazine, however i think that it is too immature for my magazine, and would be better on a magazine of a younger target audience.
Fierce- 'Fierce' is also one of my favorite ones. I think it is short and catchy, and shows the attitude and personality that the gender audience may have,towards music and gossip. I have also chosen this because of the artist Beyonce's new album is called 'I am Sasha Fierce'. I think that it is a good way of relating an artists album names to a music magazine, giving it an edge
Flawless- I think that this particular name would be good for my genre of magazine. It relates to sound, dancing, and looking good,which are all aspects that will be included in my magazine. It is catchy which make the audience remember the name.
I have narrowed the masthead ideas down to three names, which are Fusion,Fierce and Flawless. Iv chosen these for there own advantages, that will help improve my magazine and state to the audience that it is a pop music magazine. I will know look at font types of both names, to see which one looks the best, in a magazine style fonts.
Fonts For 'FUSION'
Fonts for 'Fierce'
Fonts For Flawless
Concluding the name for my magazine.
I have chosen these particular fonts, I have picked out from http://www.dafont.com/. Which means they are not necessarily going to be used on my magazine, but it has helped me imagine and give me a brief ideas of what they will be like, and the choice of the colour schemes.
Whilst choosing fonts, and seeing how they look, I have chosen the final masthead for my music magazine, which is going to be Flawless, I have chosen this name because it is related to music and sound, and can be related to apperance, which is a stereotypical interest that the gender audience may have. I think this is the best name which is well suited for my music magazine.
Ideas for my images
These images are what I am going to model my own images on. I want my image to be either a close up shot showing just the face and shoulders or a medium shot showing the face and the upper half of the body. I have chosen this particular shot because it focuses on the face, and for a new upcoming artist they need to be recgonised to be sucessful, therefore showing the face will do this.
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