Idea's.

This is a rough idea of what i want my magazine to look like which i created on photoshop. I think i will call my magazine 'Outcry' because it reflects what i want my magazine to be used for, and that is crying out about new and exciting music. I used light colours for the background, as i didnt want it to look too unprofessional, and i wanted to focus all the attention on the colours of the photographs. The simple masthead 'Outcry' was in black with a light green shadowing because it is simple, yet appealing. This magazine is being aimed at an audience just slightly older than a magazine like Kerrang!, so things like the masthead do not have to be very visually appealing. I put three features underneath the main sell because it was a different layout to most magazines, and although it looks simple, i think it will appeal to people due to the fact it is different, and its easily noticable. I put three lines of band names underneath that because this will tell the reader what to expect and who to expect from my magazine. I havent yet put any finer detail on the magazine, like date, price and any writing about the features. But i have put the barcode at the top right hand corner, as i thought it looked better than putting in anywhere else.

I chose to put the contents page in similar colours to the front page, as i think it makes it look alot cleaner, and more proffesional. I havent overloaded the page with pictures, as i think it doesnt need to be. I put the front cover on the contents page, so that i could write about where the features would be.

Photoshoot

This is a select few of the photographs I took for my magazine. As you can see I experimented with them being serious, and also playing around, to portray them as serious teenagers, and fun teenagers. I went with ones that were serious as when I looked into other magazines, the majority of the time they were portrayed as serious musicians. So in order for my magazine to look like that, that is what I did.

Audience Profile

My Audience Profile:
Age Range:
They would be aged 15 to around 25
Sex:
They would be both male and female, but the magazine would be slightly more aimed at men.
Dress sense:
They would wear designer brands such as Fred Perry and DKNY and wear clothes from Topman, Topshop, H&M, Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Blue Banana. They would take care in their appearence but be more interested in having fun. The jeans would be low waist skinny/baggy. The shoes would be converses/DC's/Vans/Uggs/Babysham, the jackets would be leather and/or fitted/hoodys, the shirts would be T-shirts/shirts/vest-tops.
Job:
Most likely a full or part time student, but also, as referred on the Jicnars scale:
my audience would be at D, C2, C1 and BD = Semi and unskilled manual workers - eg, bank clerk
C2 = Skilled manual workers - eg, plumber
C1 = Supervisory, clerical, junior administrative or professional - eg, labourer
B = Intermediate managerial or professional - eg, middle manager
Therefore, the target audience would be for:
Middle class
Skilled working class
Working class
Lower middle class
Social Values:
Post-modernists, which is 'to have, to be, to play'
Music Preferences:
You Me At Six, Blink 182, Bring Me The Horizon, New Found Glory, Atreyu, Lostprophets, Fall Out Boy, System of a Down, Coldplay, Paramore, Kids in Glass Houses, The Blackout, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Aiden, Alexisonfire, Emarosa, The Spill Canvas, Alien Ant Farm, Armour For Sleep, Attack!Attack!, Blue October, Brand New, The Architects, Faith No More, Fightstar, Flood of Red, FlyLeaf, From First To Last, Funeral For a Friend, Asking Alexandra.....
Film Preferences:
The Hangover, The yes man, Hancock, I am Ledgend, superbad, Knocked up, Never been kissed, American Pie, Saw, The grudge.
T.V Programmes:
Family guy, Lost, Scrubs, Miami Ink, American Chopper, My name is Earl, South Park, Ghost Whisperer, Celebrity Big Brother, Friends, Skins.
Radio and Music Channel Preferences:
Kerrang! TV and Radio, NME TV, Scuzz TV, Radio 1, Wyvern FM, Rock FM, MTV.
Internet:
Twitter, Facebook, Myspace.

They would be involved in the Reading and Leeds, Download and Glastonbury festivals
They would prefer small, close contact gigs rather than big arena shows ,
They would mostly be interested in a career in music, either being a photographer, journalist, musician or a roadie
They would drink alchohol on the weekends, and most would probably smoke.

Summary of Research

• The main content of both magazines i looked at were; gig reviews, album reviews, biographical stories on the best band at the time, free posters reaching to about four or five at most, and news on the old and new bands around that time.
• The photograph they use for the main sell band are all very, very similar with the main singer in the middle, usually somehow enhanced more than the rest of the band, with the photograph dominating the page.
• They both used simple, yet effective and complimenting colours, for example light green and blue, and black and red.
• On the front cover, they both had a list of bands that they would be writing about.
• Both mast heads were hidden slightly by the picture of the main band, as their names are very well known and it did not need to be very eye catching.
• There is always a key colour on each double page spread which the whole page is consequently based around.
• The language in columns and on the cover is informal.

For my magazine to work, i will need to use similar features to these, whilst trying to create an original look. I like how the magazines were presented and layed out, but they were very boring. So for my own production i want to try and excite the pages up more than K! and Rocksound did.