Photographs for the music magazine front cover.

Plans

Planning production.

Front cover:
Photograph

• Mise-en-scene- Plain background (Like used in NME, Uncut and Q.) 
• Makeup- Natural and soft makeup. .
• Hair- Naturally waved, slightly back combed.
• Clothes- Dark colours, simple. 
• Poses- Aggressive.
• Magazine name at the top of the image.

Tag lines and title.

• Title: Upbeat.
• What the cover image is related to (Interview with Stephi Lariene)
• DPS (Icons: Jarvis Cocker.)
• The UK's best concert venues.
• Rip off ticket websites.
• This year's best new-comers.

Contents page:

• Articles arranged into sections in numerical order. E.G Regular,feature.
• Four images to match some articles.
• NO editor's letter (not many music magazines have them.)

DPS:

• Indie Icons: Jarvis Cocker.
• Include information about him and his history in music.
• Fan's comments.
• What he is like live (Written from what I've been told by fans.)
• Images- Record Covers, Ticket stubs, Fans.

Publication plan.

Title: Upbeat.
Positioning statement: All you need to know about indie.
Frequency: Monthly.
Price: £3.

Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Music stores, Music venues.

Rationale: There isn't really a magazine out there for this specific sub-genre of Indie and, as i do, many people enjoy this type of music and would like to hear more about their favourite artists. The reviews would be written by the fans to give them the chance to voice their opinions but the rest of the magazine would be written by payed journalists.
Style: Informal and humorous (to appeal to a wider range of people.) Simple lexis and syntax so it is easy for everyone to read.

Regular content:Editor's letter.
                          Fan's letter.
                          Reviews (gigs & albums.)
                          The months music news and gossip.
                          Gig listings.
                          Interview on the inside back page (short Q+A.)
                          The week in pictures.
                          Column written by radio one DJ (Fearne Cotton.)
                          Ads so fans can advertise equipment, needed band members, gigs e.t.c.
                          Competitions and give aways.
                          Free posters and CDs.
                         

Feature content:  Interview with new artist (Image on the cover.)
                           DPS- Article on Jarvis Cocker's career.
                          Article discussing the years best new comers.
                          Article about the best concert venues in the UK.
                          Interview with a record company boss: what he looks for in a new act.
                          Introducing unsigned acts we think will be big.
                          Why you should and shouldn't follow a tour over seas.
                          Festivals: The good, the bad and the ugly.
                          How to make it as an unsigned acoustic act.
                          Album of the month (regular but different each month.)
                          Rip off ticket websites.
                          Music videos you must see.
                          The effect of illegal download sites on the music industry.
                          Interview with an artist currently recording a new album.              
                          Posters.
         

Questionnaire

Questionnaire results: Charts.

This shows that people favour the idea of having competitions and giveaways included in my magazine. 

This shows that interviews are the favoured feature to have in a double page spread. 

This shows that the people i questioned would prefer my cover image to be arty over all else.

This shows that my target audience would prefer interviews with artists as the main article.

From this survey I found out that these where the most popular Indie and/or accoustic acts.

1.Tuung.

2.Biffy Clyro.

3.Paolo Nutini.

4.Arctic Monkeys.

5.The Killers.

6. Belle & Sebastian.

This shows that the age range that buy the most magazines are the 15-20 year olds.

 This shows what the participants said would be the best colours to be used in a colour scheme in my magazine. Black was the most popular colour.

This shows what were the prefered features to be shown in my magazine.

Questionnaire results: Tally.

What magazine do you read?

None: 12345

NME: 1234567

Q: 123456

How much do you pay?

£1-2: 123

£2-3: 1234567

£3-4: 1

£4-5:12

Age?

15-20: 12345678910

21-25:

25-30:

31+: 1234

M/F?

M: 12345678

F: 123456789

What colour?

Black: 12

Purple: 123456

Red: 123

Blue: 12345

Green: 1

Competitions and giveaways?

Yes: 1234567891011

No: 12

Frequency?

Weekly:

Fortnightly: 1234

Monthly: 1234567

Quarterly:

Features?

Posters/CDs: 12345678910111213

Interviews: 1234567891011

Reviews: 12345678910

Pictures: 12345678910

Five bands?

Echo and the bunny men: 1          U2: 1

Adele: 1

Arcade fire: 123             Arctic monkeys: 123456

Belle+Sebastian: 1234 5      

Snow patrol: 123             Kings of Leon: 1234

John Power: 123          Billy Ryder Jones: 12345

The killers: 1234         

Nirvana: 1       Biffy clyro: 12

Paolo Nutini: 1234567           Tuung:12

Ed Sheeran: 123          Emma’s imagination: 12

Dps?

Interviews: 123456789

Reviews: 123456

Cover image?

Aggressive: 1

Happy/funny: 123

Arty: 12345678910

Calm: 1

Five words?

Upbeat: 12

 Good: 123   nice: 1

 Happy: 12    fun: 12

 Relaxing: 1      energetic: 1

 Real: 1    unique: 1

Lively: 1    interesting: 12

Loud: 1

What kind of articles?

Interviews with artists: 1234567891011

Interviews with fans: 1234

Interviews with music producers: 1234567

Reviews of gigs: 12345678

Reviews of artists careers: 123456

Reviews of albums/tracks: 1234567

Sound clip: Questionnarre answers

Questionnaire results: Video.

Analysis of double page spread

Drop capital at the beginning of the article.
A quote as the title -"People think I'm an attention seeker, but I'm just honest."
Large image of artists on the right hand side.
Four columns- Short paragraph.
Short introduction underneath the title.
Artist's name in bold in the introduction sentence.
Journalist's name by the title.
Image only slightly uses direct address.
Artist's clothing, makeup and hair depict genre.
Not many colours- mainly red, black and white.
Page number and magazine logo at the bottom.

Drop capitals used at the beginning of some paragraphs.
Paragraphed- Three columns.
Large red drop capital used in the back ground of the writing- Artist's initial. (L-Lady Gaga.)
Image of the artists on the left-hand side.
Artist's name at the top of the page.
Month, page number and magazine logo at the bottom.
No title.
Not many colours used- Mainly black, red and white.
Image doesn't depict genre as much as the previous image (Lily Allen.)
Direct address makes the image appear more aggressive teamed with what the artists is wearing (Just chain.)
No quote, which is unusual for a double page spread.

The features they share:
They each use the same colour scheme.
Each have an image of the artist covering one page.
They each have the magazine logo and page number at the bottom of the page.
They each use at least one drop capital.
They each state the artist's name in bold.

I will apply these features to my own DPS, since they are the things each of them include.