Write up for the Plan - Main Task

What are you planning to do?
• I am planning to create a music magazine that will hopefully appeal to people who love the music genre of rock.

Who are you targeting? Primary target audience needs to be clearly identified in detail.
• My primary target audience will be people who are mainly at a young age from as early as about 14, to about somewhere in a person’s 20s, mainly Caucasian. There is going to be no separation between males and females with my magazine (as shown by the front cover image) as some females may like the images of certain band members, whereas males would just like to be updated about new or old bands or about recent or gigs past. In terms of religion, there is no use of it, meaning that this magazine isn’t religious, especially down to the fact that the magazine mentions the use of drugs and alcohol, something religion frowns upon.

What genre of music are you creating the magazine for?
• The genre of music I will be creating for my magazine will be on rock, possibly having a sub-genre of one of the following: screamo, goth, alternative, grunge, metal or indie.

What is your concept for this issue?
• My concept for this issue is to promote the fact that the band in question are rising to the top so quickly and even thought they have only been a band for two years and are at quite a young age, will there be anything else that they can try and accomplish.

Are you presenting a solo artist or a band?
• I will be presenting a band that I decided to make up called “Fate’s Hand”.

What are your colour themes – explain choices (semiotics)
• My colour themes are going to a blue that isn’t too light, but isn’t too dark, combined with a black gradient as a background for all of my pages, I decided to use those colours because even though most music magazines that I researched had a monochrome theme when it comes to their use colours, I still thought that they would be the most suitable colours to use for my magazine. In terms of the colour of the writing, I will be using the colours black, red and white as based on my research, they are the most used colours in any magazine in terms of writing, adding a sense of authenticity to everything.

What images/shots do you intend to use? Why?
• On my front cover, there will be a use of a two shot and a medium close-up, showing the artists that the magazine is going to cover. On my contents page there is again, going to be the use of a two shot, but instead of a medium close-up, there is going to be a use of a medium shot, once again showing what is going to be covered in the magazine. On the first page of my double page spread, there once again is going to be the use of a two shot, but there is also going to be the first use of a medium long shot, showing the featured band in the article. Finally on the second page of my double page spread, there is going to be the use of a medium close-up and the use of a medium shot in two different pictures, showing the band in a relaxed form. All of the shots that I want to use were picked down to the fact that I thought that they would make the magazine seem more authentic and real as most magazines that I have researched have used all the shots I had used, so there is a sense of realism from my magazine.

How will you create these shots?
• Due to my knowledge of different shots and based on my research, I will create all of the shots for my magazine by getting someone to take pictures until I feel that they have created the right shots and taken the right images for my magazine to use.

What will be in your double page spread?
• On my double page spread, I will be including a big image of the band with 2 captions related to the article on the first page and then on my second page, I will be including the article itself with a quote from the band and some additional pictures of the band.