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