Planning Production

I have concluded all the research I need I can now  make detailed desicions about my magazine that I am going to produce.

• Front cover of the image: will be a girl (dressed in Indie clothes) posing

• Coverlines for my front cover:

               -Tribute act to Amy Winehouse
               -Is it the end for the Kings Of Leon
               -2012 mapped out
               -2011's big reunion
               -Indie music festival
               -The Kooks - Fading Away

• Text for my contents page: 

               -Editors letter
               -Large bold title
               -Drop capitals :on the editors letter
               -Bold cover lines
               -Colour scheme to fit in with the colours I have chosen
               -Page numbers in a different colour to the writing

• Images I will need for my contents page:

           -A picture of the front cover
           -A picture of the person/or something relating to the DPS.
           -An image relating to one of the cover lines on the front cover
      

• The article I am going to write for my double page spread:

        -My DPS will be an article about Kate Nash, and the ins and outs of her music career.

In this lesson I drawn out a rough sketch of the plan of my front cover, I done this because it will be quicker when I actually do come to make the front cover on photoshop, as it wont be all on the spot thinking-which will increase the time I take to make it. It gives me an inital plan on what to do and once the teacher has checked it, I can move onto make it, rather than just making it and it being wrong and having to re-do it again, so it also saves alot of time.

I made a rough sketch of my contents page, with all the relevent information on it that will be in the rest of the magazine, I made my titles and made initial ideas about where everything is going to be situatied on the page, this will help me when I come to make my contents page on Quark as it will save me time, just like the front cover when coming to actually making it.

Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title: Indiependant

Positioning Statement: Influencing your life

Frequency of Publication: Monthly

Price: £2.30

Distribution: Newsagents and Supermarkets

Rationale: This magazine shows the readers the inside like to the music world, and how the Indie music stars live their lives.  We will offer a magazine that has interviews, exclusive pictures.  It will pretty much focus on the fans of the music world and show them exactly what they want.

Style: The magazine will be very informal, as the music world is not exactly the most formal thing and we would like to relate it to the actual music world.  The vocabulary will be very simple as people as young as 16 will be reading the magazine and they will need to understand the words, but the writing won’t be to simple as the older ages that are reading it 18+ will find it boring.  There will be strong humour in the magazine as the readers will get bored if it’s all non humorous.

Regular Content

·        Editors letter

·        Gig Guide

·        Competitions

·        Interviews

·        Exclusive pictures

·        Gossip on the performers

·        Poster page

·        Fans forum

·        Exclusive pictures of the bands rehearsals

·        Update on new song releases

Feature Content

·        Removing the Rubble. Lisa Occhino - Indie bands helping Japan earthquake horror become back to normal.

·        Owl city comes alive. –Owl city speaks about their new tour and upcoming album release.

·        Is it the end for Kings of Leon? – Truth about splitting

·        Florence and The Machine shakes it out – speaks about her appearance on the x-factor

·        Road to Rock Fame

·        Tribute act to Amy Winehouse – Interview

·         Arctic Monkeys go on a road trip.

·        New Labels!

·        Indie Music Festival - See all the new artists, non signed artists and old artists in a Leeds festival

·        Alex Turner

·        2011's Big Reunion - An old band comes back together

·        2012 Mapped out

·        The Kooks- Fading Away

House Style

Coverlines: italic and in Arial

Headlines: Arial black

Stand First: Berlin Sans FB Demi 16pt

Captions:  Arial 8pt

Features first paragraph: Arial black, 4 lines deep

News first paragraph: First three words in BOLD CAPITALS

Body text: Tahoma 11pt

Colour scheme: Brown, Red, Orange.