Planning

Planning

From the research I have gathered I have decided that i will create a rock genre music magazine. Whilst doing the research i have found that they were usually aimed towards the older teens to young adults. This could be seen through their use of informal language. It is this age range of 15 - 34 that appears to be most interested in the bands which are most interested in  the rock genre. The members of rock bands also tend to be slightly older resulting in an older target audience being brought in.  I will also aim my magazine to this same age range as it is this age range of people from 15-34 who are most interested in this genre of music. The rock magazines I have looked at are aimed at both males and females. This is shown trough their use of colours and the bands they have shown. I am going to aim my magazine to both males and females so as that it will have a wider target audience. By having the target audience as both male it female it puts no restrictions on to creating the magazine. I am going to create a rock music magazine for my magazine to appeal to people with a rock 'n' roll image who are more edge. In all the magazines I looked at all the bands and people in the magazine and in the bands were casually dressed or sometimes smart casual. This helps to show the idea that the audience viewing these types of magazine are very much normal every day people with chilled out attitudes and simple opinions. There interests were mostly on popular rock bands and their ways of life. I could also use darker colours to portray the idea that the rock genre involves a lot of anger and lacks emotion.They also were mostly interested in the general idea of rock music and all that involved. The audience of people looking at these types of magazine were also had interests in gigs and new music releases. I can involve this into my magazine by including these ideas into my article. When planning my music magazine I must insure that it will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers. I will make it so that it will appeal to the older teenagers who tend to be more open to a wide variety of music bands. However i will also make sure that it will still cater for people who want to know about the best bands in rock bands and music whilst still giving information on new bands and songs. The magazine will appeal to a specific audience because it will discuss stories that are relevant to people who listen to and are interested by rock music and its background.Kerrang! Identifies its audience as ‘individually minded, independent of thought and musically experienced, an audience defined by attitude, passion and loyalty’. It is people who are like this that my magazine will also most appeal to so I will make sure that when writing the double page spread article that it will be relevant to peoples passion of rock music and will remain on the topic of rock music. Rather then trying to appeal to other audiences by writing about a wider genre of rock music.I will show that my magazine is aimed towards a younger audience by the use of fonts, images and presentation that i will use. I will make it more simplistic rather than it being to overly complicated. Most of the target audience for rock music magazines will be very contemporary and up to date with their looks. The writers of the kerrang magazine have said 'It is the edgy, underground and individualistic style appeals to rock readers and draws them in, this is a crucial element of any successful magazine'. I will try and use this advice when creating my magazine by using edgy and unique font styles and images. 

Magazine title ideas and Why?

mgn - music and gossip now - This woud link to my magazine as it will be a magazine based around music and the top gossip on up coming bands. I have chosen to give it an abbreviated name as many of the magazines i researches used abbreviated names. This is able to make the magazine recognisable and easy to remember.

Amp Overload - This is a possible name because it is relevant to the genre of music and is very short and snappy. It is very simple and tells us that rock music is load and bold. This makes it more easy for people to remember.

12 string -This would relate to the genre of  music magazine I am going to create. Within most rock albums there will always be a guitar used in the backing music so I thought I could bring this into the name of the magazine and relate this together. Amp is also able to relate to how loud rock music is and the strength there is in the music.

Sounds of rock / real rock - Most rock music fans seem to be very passionate about music so by putting the word rock into the title of the magazine it is able to pull in their interest. It is also putting the genre of the music into the title so as that it is obvious that the genre of my magazine is rock.

Contents Page Planning

when looking at music magazines contents pages I have noticed that they normally contain titles with a little sentence that was from the actual article. They were also sometimes split into categories such as News, Features, Albums and Gigs Guide. I plan to use this same format when creating my own contents page.

My ideas for contents titles and info:

Features -
 - Effluence - Teenage trio from Lancashire who sound like a violent Muse or incendiary Nirvana, also armed with great songs.

- Tom morello -  Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello is set to join Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on their Australian tour

 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - John Mayer and Christina Aguilera are some of the stars set to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

- Asking Alexandria - 'It's a lot more mature than anything we've ever done before'.

Albums -
 - Biffy Clyro - Laid Bare - 'My music comes from the bit of my brain that isn't quite working...'
 - Black Veil Brides - Wretched the devine, The story of the wild ones.


Gigs -
- Foo Fighters - You Control The Music!! First Station To Let The Listeners Control What They Hear!!

 - Newton Faulkner's Uk Tour - Newton is thrilled to be recording select dates of his UK Tour

- Steriophonics - The band take their outstanding new album 'Graffiti on the Train' on the road in March for a tour of intimate UK venues