Written Plans for magazine

Ideas and mood board image of photoshoot:

Information on photoshoot:

Name of shoot: The electric mistress
Model: Hannah
Time: 16:00-17:00
 people present: Hannah and myself
Prop:
.Headphones
.Viynl(optional)

Costume style:
.Casual and quirky t-shirt
.Heart pattered jumpsuit
.U.S printed highheels
.Heart shaped lips coloured in light pink lisptick
.Bright green and hazy purple eyeshadow coated around both eyes
.Green dyed fringe


Front cover:
.Model on front cover
.Masthead, "Acid"
. Main interview with cover model titled "Cyber Doll"-"interview with the new face of housemusic"
.Other storys include "Part around the Globe" "House fashion" "Top ten concerts of all time" and "Featuring"
.Promotional freebies on front cover

Contents:
.Letter from the Editor
.contents title
.More colour scheme (5 main colours)
.Images holding the page numbers
.Title of magazine
. Columns with main content in them

Double page spread:
.Article featuring front cover star
.Small introduction of article
.One big picture on the left hand side of the double page spread
.Interview styled article

Main photoshoot - Contact sheet

The Production plan

From account and ideas of my Audience reasearch, i have created my final Production plan:

Title: Acid

Positioning statement: House music; With a twist!

Distibution: News agents, supermarkets, Music shops, Main gigs.

Rationale: The Magazine is distibuted towards the house and electronica genre of music. It will contain some mainstream artists/DJs and also some underground artist. Typical conventions of the magazine consists of interviews and reviews on the genre.

Style: Normal styled vocabulary with and addition of electronica slang I.E "Madchester, Scouse house,ect" It contains contrustive critism on some artists and bands and offers a fair amount of grammar and well structured sentences.

Regular content:
.Editors letter
.Forum board
.Regular reviews
.Fashion buys
.concert reviews
.band/musician reviews
."what are you wearing?"
.Entertainment page

Featured content:
.Interview with chosen cover star
.Top ten best dressed house musicians
.Party nations: the best party citys in the world
.How to succeed at the warehouse project

Audience Research

questionaire i used:

My questionaire results:

Here is the result of the Tally:

Here are the results put in a selection of Barcharts:

Results of questionaire from the-spacecowboy

Case study notes on 2 existing music Magazines

Case study on mix mag magazine from the-spacecowboy

Case study on dj mag from the-spacecowboy

Initial ideas and plan of magazine

  Ideas for magazine:

.House music (preferably ambient, acid, underground house music)
.Electronica (is more of a wider audience, so covers anything Dance)

 Final idea of genre:

.House music magazine.

Target Audience:

.Age: 18-25
.gender-Female
.social Class-Middle class
.Ethnicity- Diverse
.Music interest: dance, house, funk, acid , electronica ect.

Price:

.Free

Frequency of Publication:

.Monthly

Issue size:

.75 pages

typical content:

.Contents page(s)
.interviews
.album reviews
.concerts and concert reviews
.fashion page
.fashion and/or music buys
.song reviews

Research into the music magazine market

Genres of mainstream Magazines in the UK:
.Dance music Magazines
. Alternative music magazines
.Rap/hip hop magazines
.pop magazines
.ect

A list of the biggest music magazines and their genre and audience:

Magazine title                     Genres                        Target audience

Artrocker                         modern                         18-30
Big cheese                       rock/punk                      14-18
Black Velvet                   rock/punk                       16+
Clash                             modern pop                     16+
DJ Mag                         Dance/Electronica            18-25
The fly                          Alternative                        16-25
Kerrang!                      Pop punk                          14-20
K Mag                        electronica/Dubstep           16-25
Metal Hammer            Heavy Metal                      16+
MixMag                     Dance/House                      18-25
Mojo                         Classic Rock                       30+
NME                         Indie                                   18+
Q                              Mainstream Indie                 16-30
Rock-A-Rolla           rock metal/Experimental       18-30
Stool pigeon             Indie                                     20+
Terrorizer                Metal                                    35+
Top of the Pops      pop/chart music                     12-16
Uncut                     Rock/Indie                             25-35

Magazines under Media Publishers:

IPC:  NME, Uncut
Bauer: Kerrang!, Mojo, Q
Future publishing: Metal Hammer, Classic Rock , Rhythm

Magazine Circulation Figures:

The Fly(free)- 108,827:  8.4%
Mojo- 85,149:  -2.4%
Propaganda(free)-  76,339:  68.8%
Q- 64,596:  -19.7%
Uncut- 63,003:  -4.5%
The stool pigeon- 54,588:  N/A
Kerrang!- 40,203:  -6.6%
NME- 23,924:  17.6%