music magazine practical day 1

Today we started to think of ideas about what audiences that we could appeal to when creating a magazine for example: Age, Gender, lifestyle, nationality etc. 

We looked over some cover terminology which included The masthead, banner, cover lines etc which we are going to follow when creating our magazine covers ourselves. Then we looked at an existing magazine cover and analysed it by creating a stereotyped character that would possibly read this magazine.

We are now going to create a magazine front cover ourselves and we had a brief to follow when creating the elements for our cover. In my group there are  4 people and each of us will be focusing and producing different issues for different months, i am producing the December issue as i thought it would be fun to produce and i could associate the cover with Christmas. Our magazine is called 'Pop Wave' and the genre we chose to cover is POP and will be aimed at 9-16 year olds as this is the age group that i think would buy this magazine. Some of the sell lines i am going to be using on the front cover of my magazine to grab the readers attention is...

An interview with teenage heartthrob Zac Effron as young teens like him and will be interested about reading about him.

i am also going to include 'Spice Girls secrets from tour' as they are pop icons from back in the 90's and they have recently had a comeback tour which many people where interested in.

I am going to add in a free key chain as a promotional offer that may draw readers attention because as well as getting the magazine you get a free key chain as well.

Christmas chart toppers is going to be another sell line as because my issue is around Christmas time readers want to know what the up to date music chart is at the time.

I am also going to include the Jonas brothers who star in Camp rock as many teens worldwide recognise them and would like to read more on them.

Lastly on the front cover my model is going to be my sister and i am going to introduce her as a new pop sensation as i feel this is individual and unique. i am going to be taking the picture myself and going to incorporate elements of a Christmas feel to it as i am doing the December issue.