Planning

Flat Plan

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Style Sheet

I want the colours of my magazine to be similar to Q magazine and NME in the fact that they have dull colours with one contrasting colour that stands out to the audience, in this case red being the contrasting colour, this also suits my target audience as it is aimed at both genders. I also don’t want my magazine to look bright as it will make the magazine look cheap this would not suit my target audience as I am aiming at upper to middle economic classed people.

I will be using the top underlined font for my masthead. It is visible from afar and it would look good with the red colour behind it.

Draft Layout

Draft Pitch

My magazine is going to be a glossy style magazine, it is going to be called BUZZED, it is going to contain magazine reviews as well as previews, news on all the latest tours of bands and other artists, it will contain exclusive interviews with artist and it will contain the latest music and artist. My magazine is aims to please all genres of music. The title BUZZED resembles the noise electricity makes, I think as the magazine is aimed at all genres, shock is to powerful and may seem to aim towards rock or heavy metal, so BUZZED is a toned down version. BUZZED will be published by Future PLC, as IPC Media already publishes a similar magazine to mine, NME, as does Bauer Media, Q Magazine. My magazine is going to be released monthly and is going to be quite expensive at £3.50, this is so the magazine contains more, than a weekly magazine and, will have fairly recent news. The magazine is going to be aimed at people around the ages 20-30, this means they will have enough disposable income, as they are beginning to get full time jobs. The language used will be a modern day English, meaning fairly informality of speech but still using the correct formalities. My Magazine is aimed at middle to upper class of economical statured people, this is reflected in the price, due to the price my magazine wants to be around one hundred pages, so the audience feels as though they are getting what they’ve payed for. The articles are going to be of an average length due to the page count.

Models, Costumes, Props

The models I will use on my front cover and double page spread will be two males, wearing similar clothes and styles, both will be acting silly doing a pose with objects such as posts or cloth rails hanging upside down depending on whether I can get hold of such props. The clothes being worn will be beige chinos, white t-shirt and a winter coat as shown below. For the models that won’t feature on the front page one model will wear darker clothes with a slightly more urban look yet still with the fashionable side of things. Whilst any other models will be wearing relaxed clothes.

Front Cover

For my front cover I want a Studio shot of a band with a similar background, to the NME magazine to the left, with a red bold text for the headings and sub headings alternating between black, red or white like the picture to the right. The title Buzzed, will be in a large red font. There will not be any sub images as the I want the main focus of the cover to be the main image and article of the magazine, however I will be using sub headings on the outskirts of the cover to advertise extra content within the magazine, the front cover should have a glossy effect as this a monthly magazine, so should have better quality. Originally I wanted my models to be stood side by side looking serious, however my idea has now developed so that the models are playing around and posing doing something silly. The models for my front cover are going to be all males, and dressed fashionable.

Contents Page

My contents page needs to have multiple photos of different things such as artists or bands images as well as images of album covers or concerts, it needs to be fairly packed with contents of the magazine, in a fairly neat set out. The Kerrang magazine to the left, shows the sort of layout I want my contents page to compare to, the contents page layout will have the word contents in the top left box labelled one in the same font as my masthead, in box 2 there will be the main image, that will also appear on my double page spread, in box 3 and 4 there will be a small image on other artists, a made up album cover image will appear in box 5 along with its description in box 6, in box 7 there will be the editors letter and in box 8 there will be the less important contents labelled down, in the final box, box 9 there will be a competition for tickets to a concert. My models for the contents pages will be the same as the models on the front page this image will be in box 2, whilst images 3 and 4 will have models dressed for a different music genres.

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Double Page Spread

The double page spread will be laid out, with the main image as the background and filling the whole page however the model will only be on the left hand side of the page with bold text in a large font at the bottom of the left hand side with a quote from the text, whilst the main text will be on the right hand side of the page, similar to the double page spread taken from Q magazine featuring Florence. It will feature the model band playing about and acting in an immature fashion. The image will also feature a white plain background, as this keeps focus on the models rather than the background. Where box 1 is there will be the main images of the models, box 2 will overlap box 1 and will have a quote form box 3 the main article. Box 3 will be the main text article.

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