Music Magazine: Planning Initial Ideas

Initial ideas

      I am going to be making a magazine for a genre that i like as this will mean i know what to put in it and what i would like to read in it, also i would be more enthusiastic when i am making it. I would like to create a new/fresh magazine with new bands and singers people haven't heard before alongside much loved bands and other well know bands. I hope to get a picture of a local group for my front cover. I would hopefully get them to an iconic part of Portsmouth and use that as a background whilst the band are holding their instruments or some other kind of props. or my other option is to get one main singer/band member and take a close up image of them. I have two examples of these types of images below.
     So far i haven't decided what genre of music to do. I can't decide between Pop rock or Indie. The target audience is going to be younger people 16-25 who are interested in the genre i am doing it on.
      The magazine will be about how music is made, how the bands live, how to get into music, interviews, quiz's, competitions and much more.
      The cover lines i will decide once i have a cover picture. I currently haven't decided what font to use, i will decide once i have my cover picture also.
       Some of the tag lines i was thinking about using were things like; '......... announce their new dates for their o2 performance' and 'Exclusive, how the ....... made it big' also quotes and interviews with the singers and performers.
       This magazine would be published once a fortnight, this is so it isn't a constant barrage of new copies, people actually have time to read the magazine before the next copy comes out on sale. The magazine would be A4 as this is a standard size and it is easy to read therefore people will like it as it will not be too different from other magazines in the dimensions sense.
      I  have learn't a lot about existing magazines and what can be done to make a good magazine. things like the price, if your target audience is young you don't want to have an expensive magazine as they will not be able to afford it
   

Research Task: Music Magazines (2)

Music Magazines

Bauer Media Group (publishers) 

Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV. The Bauer Publishing Group has grown into a worldwide publishing and media company. The Bauer Publishing Group comprises 282 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as well as TV and radio stations



Q Magazine

Q magazine is a published in the UK on a monthly basis. Founders are Mark Ellen and David Hepworth. Q was first published in October 1986. The magazine has an extensive review section, featuring: New releases, reissues, music compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio and television reviews. It is a more expensive, but better written magazine aimed at a higher class Q covers pop/rock music, mostly from the present with a few features about older artists. It is aimed at over 25's as they will have a paid job which means that they can afford to buy it. Q magazine is published by the Bauer Group 

Vibe magazine

Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones launched Vibe in 1993, in partnership with Time Inc. Originally, the publication had been called Volume before co-founding editor, Scott Poulson-Bryant gave it the name Vibe. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. The magazine is issued once every month. The target audience is people who listen to R&B, hip-hop and rap. Ages 18-34

Research task: Music magazines

Music magazine research

NME (New Musical Express)

NME is a music magazine published in the United Kingdom, it has been published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980's. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart. The NME magazines genre is indie/rock alternative. The magazine is owned by the company IPC. NME's target audience is ages 16-19. An online version of NME, NME.COM, was launched in 1996. It is now the world's biggest standalone music site, with over 7 million users per month.  It was initially published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the U.S. magazine Billboard, it created the first UK singles chart, a list of the Top Twelve best selling singles. 

Kerrang 

Kerrang is a UK based magazine published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar, Kerrang! was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. The genre is Scremo/Rock/alternative rock. the target audience is anyone who like that style of music from age of 16+. Initially it was a one-time supplement in the Sounds newspaper, which focused on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal phenomenon and on the rise of other hard rock acts.