Planning Production

Front Cover Plans

Contents Page Plans

Double Page Spread Plans

Planning Production

Front Cover
Magazine to be called SNARE
Positioning Statement: "Your Ultimate Review Guide"
POSITIONED UNDERNEATH TITLE
Bottom Right will have barcode, Issue Date, Issue Number, Price etc.
Main Coverline across centre of Page
Use of Buzz Words!

Main Colours: Red, Yellow, Black, White

Coverline Ideas:      Lost Prophets - Our Story
                             My Chemical Romance - What Turned our Lives Around
                             Paramore Rocks Scouse Style!
                             Motorhead 35 Years On - Key to Our Success
                             Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish 10 Years on
                             POSTERS INSIDE!!
                             Plus: Good Charlotte, BMFV, 30 Seconds to Mars, YM@6, Feeder

Main Image: Of Person, Medium Long Shot

WHITE BACKGROUND
TITLE IN BLACK
COVERLINES IN BLACK/RED - YELLOW OUTLINE

Contents Page
3/4 Images to be used
Issue number and Date included
Black background Text colour - White
4/5 Different Ideas wrote down for other sections (Just Text)
Album Review - Take Photo?
Gig Review - Photo at Paramore Concert, November 10th?

Double Page Spread
Big Main Image
Dark Background, White Text?
Band Name to be clearly shown
Drop Cap used
Summary of Article underneath Band Name/Title
Words/Photo/Thanks to - Left hand side (Verticle)
Magazine Title + Page number in both Corners
Section of Text taken out and placed in Middle of Article - Key Phrase/Information!

Publication Plan

Title:

Positioning Statement: Your Ultimate Rock Guide!

Frequency of Publication: Monthly

Price: £3.00

Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Media Stores (HMV, GAME etc.)

Arenas (M.E.N, Liverpool Echo etc.)

Rationale: This magazine is to inform people about the latest music in the pop/rock

genre. Including Interviews with big bands, Upcoming Bands, Information to do with

tour dates, gig reviews and album reviews.

Style: Informal, friendly to the readers. Relates back to the audience and has plenty of

feedback from the with regards to what they want to see in the magazine and their views

of what they think of things (such as gigs in local area and new albums)

LAYOUT WILL BE DETERMINED BY PLACEMENT OF IMAGES

      Regular Content

• Editors Letter
• Album Reviews
• New Releases
• Gigs in Each area of Country
• Gig Reviews
• Free Posters
• Competitions!
• Preview of Next Issues front cover
• Promotional Details for Magazine (e.g T-Shirts, Accessories etc.)

Feature Content

Some of the Content that could appear in the Magazine as a one off

• Exclusive Interview with big band
• Lost Prophets - Our Story
• My Chemical Romance - What turned their lives around
• Paramore - The Best Gig - Ever!
• Interview with one of the worlds leading  Rockstars
• Motorhead - 35 Years and still going Strong!

House Style

Cover Lines: Arial Black and Arial

Headlines: Rockwell

Standfirst: Rockwell

Captions: Rockwell 14pt. Byline to be included in Standfirst 

Features First Paragraph: drop capital Times New Roman, 5 lines deep,
only drop cap in Capital.

News First Paragraph: First sentence in Bold Capitals

Body Text: Times New Roman 10pt

Colour Scheme: Red, Black, Yellow, White

Magazine Questionnaire - Results

Male - 11           Female - 9

Prices; £1.50 - £2.00 - 3

           £2.00 - £2.50 - 5

           £2.50 - £3.00 - 5

                          £3+ - 7

Most Popular Words Associated with Pop/Rock - Guitar (10)          Drum (3)

                                                                             Mosher (4)          Instruments (3)

                                                                             Concert (4)

Top 3 Colours Associated with Pop/Rock - Red (12)      Black (12)      Yellow + Dark ones (4)

Regularity of Buying Magazines; Weekly - 1
                                                 Fortnightly - 2
                                                 Monthly - 12
                                                 Other - 5

Most Popular Magazines; NME (10)   Kerrang (7)   Q (6)

Likes of Music Magazines; Interviews (7)   Articles on Bands (6)   Band Info (4)  Posters (4) 
                                                        Whats New? (3)       Reviews (3)

Dislikes of Music Magazines;  Adverts (14)   Artists People Dont Like (3)  

Interview With Whole Band      Whole Band (19)        Rest of Band (1)

 or just lead singer?                          Just Lead Singer (0)

Most Popular Pop/Rock bands;   Paramore (7)    Lost Prophets (4)    Kings of Leon (2)  

                                                           Ellie Goulding (3)      Linkin Park (3)

From these results, i can see that most of the people i questioned were male, which means i will focus my attention mostly on the male audience, but still make it appealing too women. From the second graph, i can see that the most popular artist is Paramore, followed by Lost Prophets. Too appeal to my target audience, i will focus my attention of my front cover on one of these two artists, and possibly my Double Page spread aswell.

From the first graph (blue bars), i can see that people tend to buy Magazines on a monthly basis. To help the sales of my magazine, i will focus my attention on selling my magazine on a monthly basis only. From the final graph, i can see that most people are willing to pay over £3.00 for a music magazine. This can increase the profit of my magazine, as it means i can increase the price it can be sold as.

Front Cover Analysis - Video

Analysis of KERRANG Magainze Front Cover

Questionnaire

1, Are you;   Male                    Female          

2. How much would you be willing to pay for a Pop/Rock magazine? (Please circle)

£1.50-£2.00                             £2.00-£2.50                    £2.50-£3.00

£3.00+ (Please Specify)  _________

3. When you hear the genre Pop/Rock, what 3 words do you think of?

4. What Colour(s) do you most associate with Pop/Rock?

5. How often do you buy a music magazine? (Please Circle)

Daily                       Weekly                         Monthly

Other (Please Specify) ___________________

6.  Which music magazine(s) do you tend to buy?

7. What do you like to see in music magazines?

8. What don’t you like to see in music magazines?

9.Would you rather an interview with a whole band or just the lead singer?

10. Who are your favourite Pop/Rock artists?

Codes and Convetions of a Magazine Double Page Spread

• Heading
• Font Size
• Drop Cap
• Drop Quote
• Strap Line
• ByLine
• Main Image
• Name Of Magazine In Corner
• Stand First
• Columns

Heading - This usually stretches across both pages. Biggest Font used on the Page.

Font Size - Usually between 9-12 for the text. Heading much larger.

Drop Cap - First letter of main article text. Produced using Quark

Drop Quote - Qoute in the middle of the article taken from the article itself. Large font.

Strap Line - At top of page

ByLine - Almost like Credits from a film. Names of Interviewer and Photographer

Main Image - This links directly to text on that page. Can be Background/On Background

Name Of Magazine In Corner - Next to page number, Magazine title also there

Stand Firsts - Stands alone underneath title and sums up whole article. Larger Font and Darker Background

Columns - Text written in columns