Designing My Own Magazine.

Hiii,

I have started think about designing my own magazine and the different code's and convention's that need to be included. I have chosen to do "POP" as my music genre, this is because i know the most about this genre and also i thought it would be a good inspiration to work on. I wanted to focus on a magazine designed for teenage girls, and i thought this was the closest genre that would link in with what i intended to do. A magazine that i have recently researched, currenylu in publication that cover's this music genre would be "Top of the Pops", I looked into the different code's and convention's of this music genre to give me idea's for my own magazine. Whilst researching "Top of the Pops" i found many feature's that they have in thier magazine, this included:


-Latest gossip


-Pictures of "stars"


-Cringe Moments


-Backstage gossip with the "Stars"


-Quiz's Eg. Personality


-Help and Advice


-Poster's for your own use


-Competition's


-Interview's


-Advertisment


-Make-up Tips


-Fashion


-Real life stories


-Star sign's


-Do's and Dont's


And many more..


As you can see in my research these features gave me alot of inspiration for my own magazine as i am going to have interviews included also in mine. I am also going to concentrate on an additional feautre which will be lifestlye, this is because my magazine isnt just going to be about "Music" its going to include abit of everything for example i will have page's about the latest music and i will also have pages about "Boys" and "fashion". It didn't take me long to consider what my target audience would be, because since i got my inspiration from "top of the pop's" i wanted my magazine to have the same feel as that magazine. At first i imagined what would be an easy target audeince to consider, but then decided to go along with teenage girls as it wasn't hard to think of feature's that would have to be put in the magazine Eg. "Cute boy band's". I also had to consider on how i would appeal to my target audeince, so i decided to put myself in my target audience's shoes for a moment and thought about what i would like to see in a "Pop" magazine if i was that age. I then decided i would include the latest trends for young teenager's, the coolest music out in the chart's (mainly POP) and the popular "cute" Boy band's. I thought including these feature's would defiantly catch a young girl's attention if the "Jonas Brother's" were spread across a 2 page spread! Once i had all the information about what music genre i would use etc... i then had to think about the title. I choose the title "BOP BOP POP!" the reason for my choice is i thought this name linked in with my target audience, also i thought it would catch my target audience's attention as the name consisted of an Onomatipia which i thought was catcy towards the reader itself and it grabbed the reader as soon as they read the title. Deciding on a cover price for my target audience was fairly easy, the reason for this is because i wouldn't make my magazine pricy because young teenager's havnt got an income like £4 to spend every week the magazine is published. I thought maybe £1.00-£1.50, would be a reasonable price or maybe have a special price of £0.50p for one week to let the target audience know that the magazine will be affordable. I have chose my magazine to have "glossy" pages, as my magazine will be published weekly so i didn't want my magazine to cost alot to publish as once it was read it will be chucked away and then the next weekly issue will be purchased. I didn't want to spend alot of money on the greater quality of paper as it wouldn't be noticed as much as montly magazine's. My magazine will be released weekly as it will have alot of gossip and lot's of exciting new's and event's included. Also my magazine isnt going to be sophisticated, it will have load's of content indicator's on the front cover and it will be very "packed" of information. I decided to go with the colour scheme Pink, White and Black the reason for my choice is it link's in with the target audience as pink is a "Girly" colour. Also i didn't want to have bright and bold colour's as colour's such as "Yellow" and "Orange" wouldn't really link with the target audience as everyone know's that pink is a girl colour, also the colour's i have choose will let my target audience know this is the magazine published for them. I needed to design a masthead for my magazine so i decided to make it clear, Bold and eye catching.



Example: BOP BOP POP!

After designing my masthead, i then had to think of a tagline. I reasearched into "Top of the Pop's" taglines, this gave me inspiration for mine. I then thought of a tagline "Gossip, Boys and Fun!" I thought this linked in with my magazine, as it let the target audience know what was going to be included in my magazine. Also i think my tagline is Catchy! After designing what colours, name's and style's that were going to be included in my magazine i then had to decide on possible artist's that may appear in my magazine weekly. I had to think about wether or not they would link in with my target audience and music genre. I decided on:

-Pussycat Dolls

-Girls Aloud

-Rhianna

-Chris Brown

-Katy Perry

-Jonas Brother's

I thought these artist's linked in with my target audience and music genre, this is because these artist's are about the same age as the artist i will be using, which i think will attrach many reader's to my magazine. Starting to think about my front cover, i needed to think about way's in which i would tantalise my reader. By doing this i have thought of a few idea's such as for my price i will have a special edition price for one week, this will defiantly attract my target audience as they are young and will not be able to afford an expensive product so maybe if my magazine was a special edition price of £0.50 for that week it would attract alot of audience to my magazine. Also i could include free gift's in my magazine. My magazine would have to include item's such as make-up and girl accessorie's the reason for my choice in item's is so it's gender specific and link's in with my target audience. I could also include poster's of singer's and band's that are going to be included in that weekly edition of the magazine. The reason why i chose poster's is because in my own experiance when i was younger i would alway's look for "cute" boys that were going to be included in the poster's so i could stick them on my wall. That's why i have included them to try and sell my magazine to my target audience this will defiantly tantalise the reader. The last feature i will include in my magazine will be competition's and advertise them on my front cover. This will defiantly attract my target audience as young teenage girl's will like to take part in "free" competition's knowing they have the chance to win free gift's and trip's. My content's page is going to be plain and simple, but on the other hand still have content idicator's spreading across the page. The feature's i will include in my content's page will have artist's special's for this i will use my artist M'A. I needed to think about a series of regular feature's that will appear in my magazine to relate to my music genre. I decided to include maybe song lyric's linking in with my chosen genre POP. Also i am going to include Questionnaire's that relate to your personality and relationship's this will relate to my target audience. The last feature i came up with would be "how to do" things, such as how to get your hair like M'A. For this feature i will show images on how to get a certain hairstyle maybe a hairstlye that your latest fashion icon has got. This will link in with my music genre and target audience this is because i will use a pop star's hairstyle to show the target audience how to get similiar hair. It will link in with my target audience as teenage girl's always look for new hairstyle's and the first place they would look would be there fashion icon.