Inspirational Magazines

Inspirational Magazines

Magazine Title Styles

Here is a list of six font styles which I chose off of DaFont website, these are fonts which I feel would be good for the style of magazine I am producing. However, from asking peers, I have chose the third style down, this is called 'Lobster'. The reason why people chose this font is because they feel it will tie in best with the simplistic style of magazine I am producing, they felt that other options had too much 'background'/smudges, and felt it would suit the style of magazine I am hoping to produce.

Colour Scheme

The above picture is a colour palette showing all the different colours which could be used together for the colour scheme of a magazine. My instinct was to go with a style which would portray a sense of style to the potential customers – my target audience. I also wanted the colour scheme to not clash, and help emphasise the fact I am trying to go to an opposite look to NME (which has a busy, lively front page). So I have chosen to go with colour palette, number two (black, grey, white). The reason being is that I felt it would underline my intentions to give the magazine a classy edge. To coincide with the colour scheme, I have also decided that I will be shooting my photos in black & white style, as I feel this would correspond well with the colour palette I have chosen. How I will use the colours is that I will having a silver/grey background, which will be emphasised by the black and white image I will be using. In addition to this I will be using white or black for my title (depending upon the sharpness of the photo), However, whichever colour I use for my masthead, I will be using the opposite colour for cover lines etc.

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.

Who is my magazine aimed at?

Gender	Male
Age	16 – 25
Current reads	Music Magazines; Q, NME
Intelligence	Intellectual person, who has a wide range of knowledge about music, specifically the indie genre
Preferred music (bands)	Wide range from the Indie genre from, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Kasabian, Elbow, The White Stripes etc.

Audience Profile - Male 2

Name: Joe Pearce

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Likes: Football, Music, Playing guitar

Dislikes: computer games

Ambition: Take over Dad’s company

Idol: Slash