Possible Magazine Names,Images,Stories, Fonts And Colours.

After looking at lots of music magazine i came to find that there very sharp, easy to remember plus say and they stand out from other normal music magazines.

For example:

Q - Easy to remember,does'nt have to take up alot of front cov

er room and also unqiue

Kerrang! - The '!' makes it alot more punchy, Also is an onomaterpia word that you can remember.

NME - Easy to remember, easy to say and does not take up alot of room on front cover and icons in the top right or left hand of each page.

These are some of my possible magazine names:

Crunk!

Mu$ic

Dance?

RAVE.

I really like the name crunk which is one of the most popular names in the poll that i have done. Its catchy and people will remember it. It is also easy to say and with the added '!' it will makes it alsot more stronger.Also by having it named crunk it makes people from other genre's of music look at the magazine as 'crunk' is a type of dance move.

These are the possible images that i will use for my magazine and also these images will give me inspiration for my own pictures by the clothes they are wearing and the poses they are doing. I really like them all but the one i like the most are the first and second photo. Theses are very natural poses and would both look really nice as a front cover or a main photo on a double page spread.

After looking at a lot of different kinds of music magazines ive got a few ideas for my double page spread:

· An interview with the artists

· A review of a band

· A review of a gig

· A quick small interview with lots of different bands and artisit’s from a festival

I really like the thought of just an interview with an artisit so that you could really go into depth with the artisit and also maybe show a different side to them including different types of photo’s that they would normal do. I really like the idea of doing a female artisit that is very new and has the genre of music - indie rave.

These are the five fonts i choose out of 100 in iMac Word. For the title of the magazine i really like PortagolTC TT as it is edgy and different also eye catching. When i do my magazine if this font does not look right then i will use either Cracked Or Stencil for the front cover.

For the main writing in the contents page and double page spread i will use American Typewriter, the font is easy to read and really clear. I went onto a website called 'dafont' and went through alot of the fonts and ended up liking a certian type of fotn called 'destroy' which all the diffrent types of fonts looked really good for my genre of music for my magazine.

Out of all the fonts i really like the first and last one. And will try out both fonts on the mazgine and see which one lookes best but my mind is turned towards more to the first font as i really like the way its been broken like a mirror or a gituar.

My target audience.

This is Flo and she is a Stereotypical  girl that i would like to be reading me indie/rave magazine. Flo is an example of my target audience for the music magazine i will be creating. Flo enjoys going out with her friends to bars and clubs in London on weekends, she listens to current indie music and also club and house. She is seen as a 'topshop' girl and is very unqiue in her dress sence and also her music,she does not like to follow others. In her magazine she likes to hear about all the new bands and up coming artisit's in reviews and interviews. Also she likes to know all the gigs and concerts she can go to and also the reviews and all the lastest gossip from the festivals. 

Audience demographics

Audience analysis is the starting point for any music magazine. You need to figure out your audiences demographics: how old they are, where they work, what they earn, where they live, anything that's appropriate. The more that you understand your audience the better are your chances of capturing their attention.The success or failure of any music magazine hangs on the intrest that you generate in your audience. This can only be accomplished by knowing who they are. The following process is essential to developing your magazine content that will capture and hold your audience.

This will create intrest in the media product and will determine how succesful it will be. So when creating my media product i will create questionnaires or poles for my target audience and find out their preferences in order to determine the success of my media product.

Uses and Gratitfications Theory

The Uses and Gratitfications theory has an audience with the hands on approach, the theory is centred around the audience by seeing what they do with media rather than seeing what media does to the consumer. This allows the audience to take an active role in finding out what media is and how it affects their lives. The theory makes the audience responsible for choosing the type of media that meets their needs, for example if a consumer enjoys indie music they wouldn't buy a sweet girly pop magazine meaning, they can choose the genre of the magazine by the image of a celebrity, colours, fonts and text size on the cover. The approach suggests that people use the media to furfill specific gratifications (satisfactions). So this theory would then imply the media compete against other information for the viewers gratification. This shows me how effective the front cover of a magazine is to the audience and will help me design and create my music magazine. By me knowing this it can help me know what my target audince needs and want from my magazine.

Maslows Hierachy of needs.

Maslows Hierachy of needs is a theory inpsychologyproposed by AbrahamMaslow in his 1943 paper 'A theory of human motivation' Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans innate curiosity. Maslow's hierarchy of needs represented in the shape of a pyramid, with the largest and lowest needs at the bottom, and the need for self actualization at the top, also the needs for people. the lower four layers of the pyramid contain what Maslow called the 'deficiency needs' if these needs are not met the body gives no physical indication. Most of media advertisiting is based around this. This gives us as the audience what we need which is shown by the top three sections of the pyrmid, shwoing that if whatever were looking at looks creative and not broing showing us that we need something busy and creative to find it remotly intresting.