Music Magazine Proposal

The genre of my magazine will be Alternative/Indie. I chose this genre because these were the two most popular genres chosen in my audience research questionnaire which proves that this is a popular genre and that there will be people to buy it. This is also a good genre for me as it is also my favorite type of music and this will help me create a popular and successful magazine based on this genre.

The target audience of my magazine will be male and females that like alternative music, which I think will be mainly between the 14 and 24 as this is the main age that attend gigs and follow bands to the extent of buying a magazine to read about them, also this age because this is the age when people generally have money to spend on items such as magazines.  

The title of my magazine should represent the genre of music that will be in my magazine. As my magazine will be about new indie, alternative bands and musicians my name should clearly state that that is what will be in this magazine. Having looked through many issues of NME I have a few ideas of what images I would like for my front cover contents page and the double page spread. My front cover and double page will have the same musician or band in the images as I will link the two pages, the contents page will have around 5/6 other images of gigs and other musicians to make the contents page more interesting and more professional. The fonts I will use will be clear and modern but also retro and interesting and a combination of these are used in NME and I think it looks more interesting then just one type of font and if it looks good on there magazines it should look good on mine.

NME Front Cover

NME Contents Page

I have looked at NME photos on their website, http://www.nme.com/photos , to get ideas on how my images could look and ideas for settings.  Also before I go and take my images I will research how to take professional looking photographs to make my magazine look the best I can

My double page spread will be about the musician on the front cover. I’ve seen a few double page spreads that I like from NME and they all have a large main image and writing along one side with quotes picked out from the musician made bigger to stand out, my double page spread will be along the same lines as this.

NME Double Page Spread 

NME Double Page Spread

 I like the first double page spread with the image taking up the whole space and the writing on top as it looks more flowing and interesting to look at, as the second double page spread the writing on the blank background looks very boring and almost news paper like.