Planning: Price

The price of your magazine is vital to how many magazines you actually sell. I have researched magazine prices and they vary from a reasonable £0.99 to a rather expensive £4.99. The price varies usually on what comes in the magazine, such as free gifts and how thick the magazine is in general. Prices usually end in 99 pence because then it doesn't go to the next pound and it makes the price seem cheaper. Magazines usually base their price on how many copies they think they will sell because they need to break even and possibly make profit from them. I think that i will use a price around the £1.99 mark to make the magazine affordable and cheap for the target audience. This low price will ensure that i sell more copies of the magazine, and therefore it will get more popular through word of mouth.

Planning: TargetAudience

When creating a magazine, knowing the target audience for it is vital. You need to know this because your target audience will want different things than what target audiences of other magazines will want. Therefore i will need to use a suitable name of the magazine, fonts, colours and other aspects to attract them to the magazine.

The target audience for my R'n'B magazine will be young adults and teenagers. This means i need to make my magazine modern and aesthetically pleasing for the younger generation of people. 'Vibe' is the most popular R'n'B magazine at this current time so i will have a similar target audience to them. They prodominantly aim their magazine at young urban followers of the R'n'B/hiphop culture.

Planning: ColourSchemes

On the thought that i'm going to create an R'n'B magazine, these are the colours that i am thinking of using for my magazine:

(These colours will be used for things such as the masthead, sub-headings and banners).



>Black, Grey and White.

>Black, Grey and Red.

>Black, White and red.

>Blue, Yellow and White.

>Red and Black.

>Black and Pink.

> Black and Yellow

>Grey and Yellow

All these colour schemes work well with the colours that they are linked with and they are suitable for an R'n'B magazine.

Planning: GenreOf Magazine

The genre of music i am thinking of using for my magazine is R'n'B. This is not definate at this moment in time, because i am still uncertain about this type of music. A popular magazine which caters in R'n'B is Vibe magazine. The image above is a typical R'n'B magazine and uses different colour patterns on every new issue of the magazine.

Other possible music genres i could choose from are:

Rock

Indie

Heavy metal

Pop

Hardcore

Rap

Dance

Planning: FontIdeasForMyMusicMagazine

Planning: FrontCoverLayoutTwo

This is my second Layout idea for my music magazine. This layout is slightly unconventional with where images are placed, but hopefully it also makes it more interesting. I may not choose to duplicate and use any of the layout ideas i have posted, but i may end up putting the ideas together and coming up with a layout that all people will like. Using this research as guidance, i will hopefully make my front cover more aesthetically pleasing.

Planning: FrontCoverLayoutOne

This is my first layout idea for my music magazine front cover. I've made it rather traditional and conventional as its my first one, and hopefully i will make the next layout idea more obsurd.

Preliminary Number Two

This is my contents prelim which has a border at the top of the page and an image of pupils which has kept its original background. I have split the word contents into 'con' and 'tents' to make it stand out more and to give the page a more modern style. I have used a font which has a rough nature to it and gives the page a different look to others out there.