Proposal Task 2 - More Advanced

Proposal Form

Describe your idea for the brief: My Magazine will be a music magazine, which will have the up-and-coming artists, where they will be interviewed and commented on by the magazine and a link where the audience can comment on the article/artist/band. It won’t be like any other magazine as it will be for artists and bands who haven’t made it by competing in a talent show but progressing because of their own determination that will inspire my target audience.

Genre/ sub genre: list similar texts which have inspired your thoughts My genre will be music magazines and what inspired me to think of this is that usually in music magazines they have artists/bands that have came into the charts through talent shows and I wanted mine to be an inspirational magazine that will inspire the target audience to accomplish their dreams, no matter their background or road blocks.

Target audience: gender/ age/ characteristics/ behaviour My target audience will generally be females, aged 14-21 year olds as at that time they are still trying to figure out their career, and so it may inspire them to choose a career in music. It will be R&B/hip-hop/acoustic music; generally the type of music you would expect to see in the charts but with real, non-famous people singing the lyrics. It will be artists/bands who are current and would fit into the charts but just haven’t got the chance to show off their abilities.

Major conventions I will use mastheads at the top, left side of the magazine front cover and a smaller version alongside the contents page title and page number at the bottom of the page. I will use drop capitals at the beginning of the text to show the audience where the article starts. I will also include images that look professional and that actually go with my text. I will have a limited colour palette with colours that don’t clash and that match the images. I will have only 3 columns on the left page and the text on the right page, which will include pull quotes, the same styles of text throughout, a dominant image, a title and a good use of magazine language. For the front cover I will only have one image as it is what they usually have on music magazines, they may have more than one person on it but it is usually just one image.

Conventions I may subvert/ change/ not use a wide variety of text styles/fonts and colours, as it would make the magazine look unprofessional. I won’t use a lot of image or a lot of text as it won’t pull the audience in to the magazine and I won’t give too much information/detail on the main cover as the audience won’t want to buy the magazine to look inside for the articles inside the magazine as it will already be on the cover page and it wouldn’t look exciting.

Original images: what/ where/ what For my front cover I will only have one image, which takes up the entire page, which will be a medium-close up with the background faded as it allows you to focus more on the person in the shot than what’s around her. For my contents page I will have a main image of a band or artist, which will take up most of the page with a short paragraph article alongside it. I will also have a smaller image at the bottom of the page, which goes with one of the articles in the magazine. They will be of a professional finish that has a background, which doesn’t look too amateur. They will be smiling, looking happy and they will go with the text it is put with.

Potential difficulties/ Plan B: Getting the images to a professional finish, that match the text and that go with the magazine style and layout. Another potential difficulty is finding the right people to go in my images, as they may not match the genre of my magazine. I may also have difficulties putting the layout in the correct places and matching the text with the style I want for my magazine.