Music Magazine Pitch


Genre:  Big Band,  Rock n Roll, 50s and 60s and Vegas


Weekly/Monthly Price: Monthly Magazine- £2.50


Audience profile likes/dislikes

Likes:

Vegas type entertainment
Jazz and Rock n Roll
50/60s

Dislikes

Mainstream music e.g
Dubstep
Rap Music
Boybands
Pop music

Name

Big-Noise Magazine

Images

People are well dressed/smart

Male:  Suits make them look similar to male singers of the period
Female: Vintage dresses look similiar to female singers of the period

Double page spread

Page profile about an up and coming jazz singer will be shown on page one of two then the second page there will be and interview with said up and coming singer.

Inducements

Offer for a trip to see the up and coming singers concert in las Vegas
also another offer for the singers CD these offers will be shown as a caption on the front page of the magazine.

Usp

The magazine combines musicial interests such as Jazz and Rock n Roll using these teqnuiques it will help the magazine appeal to people who prefer different genres.


Other

FaQ of Singer for the magazine focus on paticular genre e.g Jazz
Venue information will be shown on the contents page FaQ on Caesars Palace which is most famous for having the rat pack sepratley and in a group perform there.

Preliminary photo plan


My intial plan for my preliminary piece is to follow the structure of my draft as much I can. I'am planning to keep the layout of the the front cover the same as it was set out on my pencil sketched draft copy.

Prelimnary piece photographs

Draft of preliminary piece

In todays lesson, we worked on a draft copy of are preliminary piece which a rough copy of a school prospectus/news-letter.


The lesson today helped me devolp a brief idea of how I want to set out my preliminary piece by letting me organise the draft copys design to how I want to  create my school newsletter.

Todays Lesson

We analysed a music magazine to see if we could work on what could effectivley be put into our own music magazine such as certain fonts and colours. I learnt that if I want to make my Magazine look good it needs to be convincing, it also needs to look like its aimed at my specific genre of music (Big Band).

Looking at a contents page of a magazine

Composition

• Double page spread, it spaces out certain areas of the article such as images, reviews and featured articles.
• Text colums are laid out in subtitles, there are different sub-sections for each text coloum.
• The supporting images our laid out and set to be under there releated articles e.g. the Paloma Faith article.

Image

•  On the first contents page, there are various main images of artists such as David Bowie who relate to certain articles.
•  There are supporting photographs relating to the text coloum articles.
•  The style of photograph is none in paticular, they seem like generic and plain pictures of artists featured in certain articles.

Graphics

• There is a logo which is used that says ' 2013 Q magazine long-range forecast, which could relate to an upcoming event for the magazine.

Text

•  There isn't a main headline,there are various smaller headlines on the second page of the contents.
• There contents page is defined by having most of its text written in bold colours and font which was done to catch the audiences eyes.
• In terms of the font I noticed that the bold font was used to make the more important words stand out.

Theme

• The colours used, were, reds,blacks,whites and baby blue, these colours made the text stand out for certain articles e.g. David Bowie article written in bold red
• The colour scemes were similiar reds,blacks and whites were used for it to give a feeling of continuity The bold font was also used for both the front and the contents pages.

Media brief


Preliminary exercize: Produce the front page of a school/college magazine, featuring a photo of a student (Medium close up), do a mock layout of a contents page.

Main exercize: Produce the front page, context and a double page spread of a new music magazine