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Publication plan

Publication plan

Title:  SHOUT

Positioning statement: For indie music fans written by writers

Frequency of publication: monthly

Price: £3.00

Distribution: supermarkets, music stores, gigs, libraries

Rationale: The approach of the magazine is to provide exclusive interviews and articles about bands/artists of that genre of music. Its main purpose is to entertain the fans and give them an insight of what their favourite artists are doing.

Style:  The style will be informal with elements of information using a friendly and humorous tone but also giving formal opinions. The magazine is for all indie fans and therefore will use a simple language that will be easy to grasp.

Regular content:

- Competitions

- Local gig reviews

- Concert reviews

-Hit of the month

-Favourite artist of the month

-Highlight shoots

-Fan page

-Fans chosen tune of the month

Feature content:

-An interview with Kasabian

- The Kaiser Chiefs get down and dirty

- The Killers talk about their band name

-Ellie Goulding talks about how she made it in LA

-The Kooks speak about their new album

-Eliza Doolittle tells us about her new single

-The Wombats are interviewed on their gig

-New singer Lisa Mitchell tells us about her big hit

-Mumford&Sons speak about their childhood in Scotland

-My Bloody Valentine look for their very own valentines

-Radiohead come back from tour

-The script talk about their crazy fans

-Ed sheeran talks about selling his instruments

-Tokyo Police Club visit Tokyo

-The View talk about their hit ‘Face for the radio’

-The Arctic Monkeys speak about performing at wakestock

-Bombay bicycle club talk about fame

-Coldplay speak about their 2week long tour

-Florence and the machine talk about V-fest

House style:

Coverlines:  Book antique

Headlines:  berlin sans FB demi

Standfirst: berlin sans FB demi 14pt

Captions: berlin sans FB demi  8pt

Features first paragraph:  Drop capital berlin sans FB demi, 5 lines deep and first two words in capitals

News first paragraph: first two words in bold capitals

Body text: calibri 11pt

Colour scheme:  purple, black and gold

INITIAL PLANS FOR MY MAGAZNE

Title: SHOUT

Positioning statement:

Frequency of publication: monthly

Price: £3.00

Distribution: supermarkets, music stores, gigs, libraries

Rationale:

Style:

Regular content:

- Competitions

- Local gig reviews

- Concert reviews

-Hit of the month

-Favourite artist of the month

-Highlight shoots

-Fan page

-Fans chosen tune of the month

Feature content:

-An interview with Kasabian

- The Kaiser Chiefs get down and dirty

- The Killers talk about their band name

-Ellie Goulding talks about how she made it in LA

-The Kooks speak about their new album

-Eliza Doolittle tells us about her new single

-The Wombats are interviewed on their gig

-New singer Lisa Mitchell tells us about her big hit

-Mumford&Sons speak about their childhood in Scotland

-My Bloody Valentine look for their very own valentines

-Radiohead come back from tour

-The script talk about their crazy fans

-Ed sheeran talks about selling his instruments

-Tokyo Police Club visit Tokyo

-The View talk about their hit ‘Face for the radio’

-The Arctic Monkeys speak about performing at wakestock

-Bombay bicycle club talk about fame

-Coldplay speak about their 2week long tour

-Florence and the machine talk about V-fest

House style:

Coverlines:

CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

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CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE, FRONT COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE

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RESEARCHING THE MARKET PLACE

I am going to focus my research on Q and NME magazines as they are both similar in popularity throughout the United Kingdom.

Q :
Price- £3.99
Frequency of publication- Monthly
Issue size- 140
Regular content:
-The Q Recommender
-Q Mail
-Q Now
-Restoration Tragedy
-Q Then
-New To Q
-Cash For Questions
-Q&A
Feature articles:
-Cover Stories
Audience:
Q’s audience is younger and more affluent than any other music monthly.

NME:
Price- £2.40
Frequency of publication- Weekly
Issue size- 68
Regular content:
- Track of the week
Audience:
66% male,34% female, ages 15-34

MAIN TASK- INITIAL IDEAS

INITIAL IDEAS
You need to make decisions about:
-The type of music magazine you are going to produce
-The target audience

For my music magazine I have chosen an indie genre with the target audience of 16-25. My magazine will be aimed at people who are interested in acoustic music and perhaps like to play instruments and also maybe singing. It will also be aimed at people who are a fan of young musical talent.