Magazine Name - Amplified

One of my first tasks to perform upon the creation of a magazine was to think of a magazine name that would represent my magazine, and what sort of magazine it was. However, I also felt it would be vital for the magazine name to be short & ’snappy’ so that it would be memorable to the audience. This was a result of researching various music magazines, and looking into detail about the magazines for which mine was the inspiration of, NME & Q. As it is plain to see from these two magazines, both are short names, which has been identified as that it stays in the mind of the customer, if they have a short name e.g. NME stands for New Musical Express.

However, the problem occurred to me that many magazine names are already in use in various different countries around the world, the magazine name obviously has to be unique. So I felt I would go for a name which was still associated with music, especially the genre, but represented what happens during many concerts. So I chose ‘Amplified’. This is mainly down to the fact that I thought it represents the louder music of the music industry (as my magazine focuses on Indie), but I also feel that it represents the meaning of making something louder, not only through music, but in addition through message.