Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title: Indie Vibe

I chose the masthead ‘Indie Vibe’ because I think it is relevant to the genre. It also portrays the type of music the magazine will be focusing on.

Positioning Statement: Listen to the music you want to hear.

Frequency Publication: Monthly

I chose to publish my magazine monthly as most professional magazines are published monthly and also from my research most people chose the ‘monthly’ option.

Price: £3.99

I chose this price for my magazine because according to my questionnaire results, £3.99 was the most reasonable price to sell the magazine at.

Distribution: Supermarkets, Newsagents, Airports, Music Stores and Gig venues.

I have chose to distribute my magazine in these areas because this is where most people will be buying magazines if they are ever going to.

Rationale: The approach of this magazine will be for music fans. Inside the magazine we will state opinions and include exclusive interviews

Style: The style will be informal throughout my magazine. The magazine is aimed at all indie music listeners. I am going to be using slang, short paragraphs and simple vocabulary to relate with the audience.

Regular Content:

Editor’s Letter

Q+A

Gig Guide

Album Reviews

Artist Interviews

Feature Content:

Top 40

Competitions

Exclusive Band Interview

Top 10 upcoming artists

House Style:

Coverlines: Arial Narrow / Arial Black

Headlines: Franklin Gothic Demi

Standfirst: Franklin Gothic Demi

Captions: Franklin Gothic Demi

Features first paragraphs: Drop Capital in Arial Narrow and capitals.

New paragraph: First two words in bold capitals

Body Text: Microsoft Sans Serif

Colour Scheme: Black, White and Red.

Evaluation of Questionnaire

Audience feedback results from lilycorcoranx

Questionnaire

Audio files

Analysis of a professional music magazine Double Page Spread

Analysis of a professional double page spread from lilycorcoranx

Analysis of a professional music magazine Contents Page

Analysis of a professional music magazine contents page from lilycorcoranx

Analysis of a professional magazine covers

Analysis of professional magazine covers from lilycorcoranx

Initial Plans for my Magazine

In today's lesson, I have made the following decisions and initial plans for my music magazine.


Price:  I have decided that my magazine is going to be priced at £3.99. This is because it is a reasonable price according to other professional magazines.

Frequency of publication: Monthly, because most of my magazines that I have researched are published monthly.

Average Issue Size: The average issue size of my magazine will be 100 pages.

Regular Content: The regular content for my magazine is going to be things like: Hot new artists, gig guide , subscriptions and reviews.

Feature Content: The feature contents in my magazine is going to be things such as: feature articles of the artist, top 40 and competitions.

Researching the Market Place

Today, I researched 3 different Indie Magazines that could be potential competitors for my music magazine.

Researching the market place from lilycorcoranx

Initial Ideas

My initial idea is to produce an Indie magazine with the target audience of anyone from the age 17-30. This will engage anyone that interested in this genre and that will enjoy learning more about Indie music and finding shows to attend.

Evaluation of School Magazine

Evaluation of school magazine from lilycorcoranx

Completed School Magazine Contents Page

Production of School Magazine Contents Page screenshots

Step by step of contents page pp from lilycorcoranx

Completed School Magazine Front Cover

Production of Front Cover screenshots

Step by step of front cover from lilycorcoranx

GIF Maker Post

In today's lesson we took pictures around the school in order to get an idea of what we would like inside our school magazine. We then downloaded the pictures to the computer, picked certain ones that we liked and then made them into a GIF using GIF Maker. 

Plans for Preliminary Exercise

In today's lesson I planned out my magazine front cover and contents page, some of the features on the front cover include: Masthead, Main Image in medium-close up shot, the main cover line and the other cover lines. After having set out my plan I sketched how my front cover will look. After that, I planned out how the contents page would look, considering the images I would use to promote the articles. I also had to plan out a list of regular content for the magazine as well as 10 feature articles. After planning this out I sketched up a rough idea of what the contents page would look like.

Practice Camera Shots

Practice Camera Shots from lilycorcoranx

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine Double Page Spread

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine Double Page Spread from lilycorcoranx

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine Contents Page

Codes and conventions of a Music Magazine Contents Page from lilycorcoranx

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine Front Cover

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine Front Cover from lilycorcoranx

Brief

Brief

Print
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally, candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.