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My front cover of the music magazine I will create will feature a memorable mast head. My current idea for the name is BreakDown, I feel this is suitable to the genre of music i have chosen to base my magazine on. When putting my masthead on my cover it will need to be the second most noticable and dominant thing on the page, obviously the featured picture being first. The picture itself will have to be a medium close up (shoulder and head only). My model on the cover will also be made to make full eye contact with the camera. This is so the reader connects to the men/women on the cover, this technique is very effective.
Another feature will have to be a consistent house style of up to 3 colours, consistency is key for this particular feature this is to keep the appearance of the magazine proffessional rather than making it stupidly colourful this would give the impression of the magazine being very childish. Another apsect of media language I plan to include on my cover is a thumbnail or two referring us to other articles for example a picture of an album cover away from the main picture, with the caption 'check out how BVB's new album Set the world on fire settled in our hq'. Media language such as the price&barcode, competitions and teasing contents possibly along the bottom are usual conventions I could use on my cover such as 'win a signed fender strat signed by BMTH' or along the bottom 'Oli Sykes- I can't f*cking stand....' Lastly I feel a reasonably priced magazine is key in appealing to my audience as my magazine will be weekly and my target audience (13-20) the majority of my readers would be unemplyed and wouldn't be willing to pay unrealistic amounts.
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My idea for my college magazine isn't particuarly the most original out there due to my chosen genre is quite popular in attracting companies to make magazines such as Kerrang, RockSound and metal hammer.
So if I were to actually produce a music magazine week in week out for what I'd lack in genre originality I would try make up for in content originality like include more freebies such as posters, stickers etc. Another idea would be toomake my interviews with bands or band memeber more personal a little more in depth ask the questions other magazines don't.
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The message I intend to send with my magazine is a very pro rock music one. Meaning I want my the readers of my magazine to get the impression my magazine is purely for them and pushing modern rock music forward and trying to prevent the pop music onslaught. I decided on this message because I feel like the rock music fans out there are the most loyal. What I mean by this is more often than not fans of similar tastes to my magazine tend to buy full albums of their favoured bands, where as from what I understand by talking to people of different musical tastes to me tend have one or two singles per artist. Bear in mind that is just my opinion.
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My target audience for my magazine age wise as previously stated 13-20 year olds, so teens to young adults. I chose this as people older tend not to buy music magazines from what I understand. Obviously people who listen to the music featured in my magazine. And my socio-economic group would be (c2-E)
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