Music Cover Draft One

My Front Cover Draft

I only made one draft as I took idea's from other magazines as shown in a few posts below and merged them into my own front cover.

My double page spread

My double page spread is about a new chart climbing artist whose inspiration is Lady Gaga. It is going to be a question and answer type of article and there are going to be lots of different things asked, its going to be entertaining by asking things about her love life, her social life and her singing career. Its also going to be promotional as she is going to tell us about her new single and chart topping album. The genre of her music is going to be pop and the style is going to be conversational and light hearted. I want the reader to find out as much as they can about this new artist. The headline I'm going to use for this article is "Mistress Lala turning Gaga?" just like the sell line on my front cover will be except I will add in Mistress on the double page spread. The images added into this article will be her posing and one will be of her having her make up put on.

Sell Lines

I have come up with a varitey of sell lines to be able to put on the front of my magazine or in my contents page.

• Free Limited Edition SIGNED CD! (I will have a picture of a CD)
• LALA is going GAGA! (My main image and story)
• B's festive earphones on sale NOW! (I will have a picture of this)
• Brown for the top 40 crown?
• Bieber spreading the fever!
• Have One Direction gone the wrong direction?
• Rihanna's new romance
• Nicki's wigging out over upcoming tour
• Updates about the X Factor and interviews with the contestants
• Is Adele over her ex? "Someone like you" says no... But what does she say?

My own contents page

My contents page is going to help the reader navigate and locate specific stories that they want to read.
I'm going to have on average 6 pictures which are relative to the stories, an "on the cover" section instead of a features section, 2 reviews; one about a new single out, a new album out, in my regulars section I will have a quiz page, a "UK top 40 pop hits" page, a page where people can write to our magazine and tell us what they think of previous stories they have read in our magazine and what they think of songs etc, there will also be a page with "Single of the week" and "Embarrassing moment of the week" which will be about singers or bands who have made a whoopsie moment on camera and there will be a limited free gift in each magazine but for this one, it is going to be a free signed CD by a new band. I have also been considering for a while to have a short column about "The Editor" just like UNCUT has but I don't think I'm going to use that idea as my magazine is to be strictly for people who want to know about music, singers, chart topping hits and how music videos are made, I don't think they would want to read about the people who made the magazine and I was not requested in my questionnaire that I handed out. My pictures that will be included in the contents page, they are just going to simply have the number of the page in the corner which the story related to that picture is on and have no writing underneath the sell like or picture as I will give enough but little information about the story in the sell like so I am able to include more and make the reader want to read more.

Contents Analysis

So far I have analysed 3 different contents pages, Q, Kerrang! and UNCUT. I'm going to take a few idea's from these 3 contents pages and create my own. Here is what I analysed:

Q

 

There were 7 features, it was a double page spread with 3 pictures on one page and 6 on the other, there were 3 sections; features, regulars and Q review, there were 10 regulars, a brief explanation was given to each story, there was one review and the pictures were mainly in the middle of the 2 pages.

Kerrang!

In Kerrang! there was 1 feedback, 2 news articles, 2 live reviews, 6 features, 1 K! icon, 2 album reviews, 2 gigs, 1 swag and famous last words. 9 pictures took up the left and middle of the page and information of some stories were given underneath their pictures related to the article.

UNCUT

There were 12 regulars, 8 features, 6 reviews and one picture. They had a column at the bottom of the page called "In this issue" and they had a big column going down the right of the page called "The Editors". Under the feature stories, small but detailed information was given and under the regular stories, a very short sentence or few words was given about the story.

Mission Statement

Beth's new project BASELINE is a basic music magazine bursting with the latest music singles, packed with the newest chart climbing artists, crammed with the funniest gossip and embarrassing moments in most of the A-list singers everyday lives and also get the true meaning behind the chart topping hits from the singers themselves!

BASELINE is aimed at female teenage readers between the ages of 16-19 who have a passionate love for pop music and who are madly in love with the hot and hunky new boy bands and who idolise the biggest female artists in the industry.
BASELINE contains all the elements that are pertinent to teenagers today - -juicist gossip, hot posters of celebs, the most stylish looks and embarrassing moments of others.
BASSLINE's role is to inform about the latest trend and music and to inspire people who idolise the guests in our magazine articles.

Front cover image

How to make the front cover image effective

·        Position of model

·        Colour scheme

·        Clothing- costumes

·        Lighting

·        Camera shot

·        Camera angle

·        Background

·        Props

·        Hair & Make-up

·        Shot distance

·        Composition

·        Number of models

·        The genre of magazine

·        Representation- gender, age, music

·        Pose

·        Setting- interior or exterior

·        Model on cover represents audience

·        Take at least 5 shots

Reader Profile

BASELINE - Reader Profile

Female: 90%        

Male: 10%

Average age: 17

ABC1: 80%

Still Studying: 76%

Working fulltime: 12%

Unemployed: 2%

In the last 12 months BASELINE readers bought on average

37 CD Albums-£425.50 for every reader

                                                        Total readership- £18m

65 CD Singles-£178.75 each reader

                                                     Total readership- £9m             

33% buy a lot of their music from a major music chain (i.e. HMV)

19% specialist record shop.

48% buy their music from an online retailer (Amazon, ITunes)

81% tracks downloaded in the last month.

76% own an iPod.

20% own a CD player.

97% have a mobile phone.

Like to keep up to date

74% say it’s important to keep up with the latest music.

59% are passionate about music.

Concerts and events

87% go to concerts regularly/often.

68% get their tickets online.

11% get tickets over the phone.

97% agree that music is a part of their daily lifestyle.

77% agree that they like to listen to new artists, which are being advertised.

43% are tempted to buy the products that are being advertised in the magazine.

Music Fan Profile

Dizzy Dancer

Age 16-19

What is she wearing? Baggy grey SoulCal sweats with one leg pulled up at the knee held in place with a bobble, worn out daps and a floaty stripy pink crop top. Her hair is shoved up into a rough but pretty curly pony tail with a little make up on looking good but not over the top.

Listens to - Anything in the pop charts that she can prance about to and create a dance routine to and perform for her dance class once a week. Her secret obsession is Chris Brown as that is her main inspiration for dancing to pop music.

Wants to be A professional backing dancer for the top A-list singers, and also wants to be Justin Biebers wife.

Find her In the local theatres dance studio practising routines at full blast or in her room with her earphones in singing along to one of Rihanna's songs.

My magzine analysis

I decided to look at rock magazine front covers even though my choice of genre was pop music and found two which were my favourite out of all the front covers I had seen. On these magazine I just like the layout of the sell lines and the main image background. I then found another magzine as shown in the post below, where the colour scheme stood out alot to me and I have decided to also go with that colour scheme. I have decided to have the main image covering the masthead a little like the one magazine with Dave Grohl on the front and I'm going to have the sell lines going around the picture like the one with La Roux on the front. The main image will be in the middle and very large. I believe that these 3 front covers can give me the inspiration to create my own perfect front cover for my music magazine.

My magazine analysis

I like this idea of the main image being the main thing that stands out and is made extremely clear of who it is and the sell lines being made to stand out but around the picture.

I love this colour scheme, and I will be using it on my front cover.

I also like the idea of the picture covering the masthead a little as if people should know what the magazine name is.

My Music Magazine Questionnaie Evaluation

Colour scheme I'm going to use.

I handed out 15 questionnaires to almost a variety of different aged people. I them out to the majority of 16 - 19 years old but one was 21 or over, the other 2 were between 12 - 15. The minority of the people who took my questionnaire were 4 males. Even though with the highest vote I chose not to go with Music Mania as my masthead, I changed my mind decided to create another idea, which is BaseLine. With just one vote between the slogans, the one with the highest votes was "It's like music to your ears", but I'm going to go with "For your music obsession". Someone contributed an idea for a slogan, "The music in you". 10 people said that they would pay between £1 and £2 for my magazine. I then asked what they would most like to read about in my magazine, 11 people said they would like to read about the singers, 13 people would like to read about chart hits, 5 people would like to read about music albums, only 3 people wanted to read about singing competition results, 5 people said they would be interested in knowing how the music video's are made, and 2 different contributions were also made, 2 people said for Justin Bieber to be in the magazine and another request was for funny stories to be written about the celebrities which I thought was a brilliant idea. Although people voted on which colours they wanted the front cover and the colour scheme to be, I'm going with the same colour scheme of the NME front cover from October 2010, which is shown at the top of the page. The majority of people said they would like the magazine to be about chart hits and this was what helped my choose the choice of celebrity to copy, which was Lady Gaga. The majority of people suggested that the magazine should be aimed at and with 14 of 15 votes, 16 - 19 was chosen. 1 person said for it to be aimed at 40 year olds and older for "The old timers" as they quoted. All people said they would buy my magazine.

My final pictures.

Either this or the one below will be in my main article.

This will definately be my main picture for the front cover.

This will definately be in my main article.

Music Magazine Main Article Picture

As My Main Article Picture, I Had Taken A Few. And So I Might Collage 2 Of Them Into Fitting Together And They Can All Be On The 2 Page Spread But As 2 Different Picures, Not 3.


With The Picture And The One Below, I Am Going To Remove The Background Of This And The One Below, And Place Them Back To Back.



I Will Also Remove The Background On This Picture And Use It On Its Own.

My Music Magazine Front Cover Pictures

With These Possible Front Cover Pictures, I Will Have To Remove The Background But These Are An Example Of What The Picture Is Going To Look Like.
The Posibilities For My Front Cover Picture Are:

I Prefer This The Most As My Front Cover Picture