Proposal for music magazine

My music magazine will be following the genre pop music, but seeing as this is a little brief, I decided I would take sub-genres off from this and focus mainly on female artists and bands. This would then allow my magazine to include more feminine topics, such as horoscopes, advice, aspects of fashion and the latest gossip. Of course, as it is a music magazine the attention would be mainly directed onto the music. From this I would say my target audience would be females, aged 13-18 - purely because any ages after this seem to lose interest in topics which I would be including in my project. I feel artists and bands such as Girls Aloud, The Saturdays, Rihanna and Pixie Lott. Although the audience may not be entirely interested in pop music, and may favour other older or different artists I feel that they would read this magazine to get an insight to a different type of music and lifestyle. This may be giving them inspiration in their youth years. The typical girl who would read the magazine would be very much so involved in social networking, enjoys shopping and listening to the latest chart music. She will follow the latest trends, whether it would be the newest technology or clothing range. The reader will still be at school or college, and living with her parents in the city.

The mode of address for my front page will have a colour scheme of pale colours such as pink, cream and purple. There will be a picture of a celebrity who must be considered as a role model, therefore has to be good looking and well known in the pop industry. The language will not be too difficult to read and quite colloquial when necessary.

Evaluation of my college magazine

My target audience are for students who already attend the college ages 16-18, and with this in mind I included suitable subtitles which would interest them such as exam results and new offers inside the college. Whilst making my magazine, I think my target audience may have changed more to girls than boys. This is because the colour scheme is quite girly, using shades of purple, white and pink. Also, it would be more typical for a woman to pick up the magazine cover and read it.
When creating my magazine cover I found that it was quite hard than I would have expected. Separating the photograph - the picture from the background was quite difficult as I had to try to not make it look scruffy. After I had come to terms with the program Photoshop, I became more comfortable with editing my picture. If I were to re do my magazine, I would have taken a picture that was closer to the models face. I feel my picture was not quite a mid close up and because of this the audience may not be as attracted to the magazine.

I think the end result of my magazine cover was quite plain and boring. If I had some more time to spend on it, I would have added more pictures and a more interesting background. I would have also thought more about the presentation of my headlines, and not left spaces where another headline could have been placed.

I like my contents page, I think it looks fairly sophisticated with the black and white colour scheme, but still keeping an element of my front cover by using the purple titles. I also like the window box look for inserting my pictures.