Planning for my music magazine

Title ideas

Title name ideas Tally (from my target audience)

Indie Central II

Indie City III

Discovered IIIIIII

Up and Coming I

Rediscovered II

Title fonts

DISCOVERED – Aharoni

DISCOVERED – Broadway BT I

DISCOVERED – Impact IIIIIII

DISCOVERED – Vrinda

DISCOVERED – Batang I

DISCOVERED – Meiryo III

DISCOVERED – Cambria Math I

Title colours

DISCOVERED III

DISCOVERED IIIIII

DISCOVERED I

DISCOVERED I

DISCOVERED

DISCOVERED I

DISCOVERED I

Connotations• The word ‘discovered’ as a very broad meaning.

• ‘Discovered’ could mean the discovery of anything, but relating to my magazine it means the discovery of new up and coming indie music and publicising it to the British market.

• I decided on this name for my music magazine as it suggests that it is something new that no one has ever seen before, meaning they will find out something new. This is what the reader of a magazine would want as they wouldn’t want to be reading information that they already know.

• Discovered also suggests that people who are not known will be brought to light in the music industry and that the audience will find out some new music/artists that they can listen too.

• The use of the colour red also brightens up the magazine as a lot of the writing inside/on the front cover will be in black or white.

Rejected ideas and reason for my final choice of title

Rejected ideas:• Indie Central – I rejected this idea as a title as I thought that because it involves the word ‘indie’ it

seems to typical of a music magazine that is about indie to have indie in the name and it would not be as creative or as unique.

• Indie City- I also rejected this idea as a title for my magazine as I thought that again it involves the word indie and it would be a lot more unique if it didn’t and would have more of a meaning to it. I liked the use of ‘City’ as it show a group of people listening to the same music and enjoying it, However I chose not to use this.

• Up and Coming – I rejected this idea as I thought that it looks a bit long to be a music magazine title and if it was one word it would be more effective as this is what most magazines do.

• Rediscovered – This title is similar to the one that I actually picked, but I thought the linking of this to what the magazine includes is less obvious and makes it seem like indie music hasn’t been around for a while, but this is not what I want to show.

Reason for my final choice:I rejected these ideas for the title of my new music magazine as I thought ‘DISCOVERED’ suited my idea

for my music magazine a lot more than the others. I thought this because discovered has more of a meaning that links in with my genre, indie. ‘DISCOVERED’ suggests that someone/something has been found out about, and that is what I want my magazine to be about: writing about and publicising the new artists that have finally been discovered and showing the audience what they’re all about and what their music involves. Also discovered shows already discovered artists in the industry that everyone knows about to give the magazine some crossover of the genres. I also picked the title discovered because I asked my target audience (17-24 year olds) and the majority of the people picked this name out of all of them as they thought it was the most effective and gave the audience an insight into what the magazine was actually going to be about before they even read it.

Content plan• I will add lots of information into the magazine about the latest music

news, mainly focused on indie but also linking to other genres so there is some cross over in the magazine, meaning it will appeal to a wide variety of people.

• I will also include an interview from the main cover artist, so the audience can find out more about the main focus of the magazine, which may have been one of the reasons they bought the magazine. Linking on from this I will add information in general about the artist on the front cover as indie artists aren’t always very well known meaning there music and information about them isn’t really known. This will give the audience more knowledge about some artists that haven’t been fully discovered by the public.

• I will add in one big article and then small sub articles into the magazine along with images, with an equal amount of both.

• In my magazine I will add in information about the recent and up and coming gigs and the new indie artists that have been discovered, linking to the name of the magazine.

• I will also put in some information about artists that have been discovered for a while that people will know, this will include indie artists and other music genre artists so it will appeal to more of a variety of people.

House style planColour ideas:

Continuous colours used throughout for the text: red, black and white mainly with other bright colours added in to draw your attention to certain parts.

Font choices:

Same font throughout, but for articles about artists (front cover artist article for example) a different font. The main font throughout will be Arial and the font used for the articles will be Arial Narrow. I picked these fonts as I thought they looked the most professional and suited the type of magazine my magazine is.

Stylistic features:

The page numbers on each page will be at the bottom and along the page at the bottom next to this, will be the name of the magazine in a plain font, as a continuous theme throughout.

Front cover planText on front cover:

• The masthead will go along the very top of the magazine along with the date underneath it on one side.

• Large picture in the middle, of the artist which the writing can be placed next to or on top of.

• Name of artist below the image along with a quote that the artist has said, which links in with something the artist has said inside the magazine on the double page spread.

• Different artists names across the bottom that are included in the magazine.

• ‘Every issue, someone new, discovered.’

• ‘The future of music.’

• 10 page exclusive

• Barcode at the bottom of the magazine, along with the date and the price of the magazine.

Font for text on front cover

• Font for front cover-Albertus Extra Bold

• Font for front cover-Franklin Gothic Medium

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• Font for front cover-Britannic Bold I

• Font for front cover-Malgun Gothic I

• Font for front cover-Eras Demi ITC I

• Font for front cover-Segoe UI Light

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• Font for front cover-Berlin Sans FB I

Front cover continued • Images plan/ mock up:

Contents page plan

List of content:

• Gigs coming up

• New, up and coming artists

• Discovered artists

• The indie artists to listen too now

• Old school indie

• Latest music news

• Main feature (cover artist double page spread)

• Reviews on old and new albums

Contents page plan continuedEditorial script:

Indie. Don’t know much about it or who it involves? This is your chance! Indie is the genre of music that everyone forgets about when choosing what to listen too, but now is the time to change that. We have put together DISCOVERED so you have the chance to find out everything, I mean everything, about the music you didn’t even know you loved until now! We join Martha Davis on her UK tour, we find out more about the crazy touring lives of the new, up and coming indie artists and we even look into the music careers of old school indie artists. Everything you need to know about indie, you will find in Discovered. This is the newest and most up to date indie music magazine you will find on the shop shelves. Read on to find out what the big deal is all about!

Mock up:

DPS Image plan/sketch for ideas