Planning for front cover

Photography Shoot Plan

Proposal 

I am aiming my magazine at teenagers aged 15-19 of both sexes that listen to alternative music. It is not a pop magazine. The magazine will mostly be filled with articles so interviews with music artists, up coming events, new artists with a larger story about the cover musician. Then to help fill it up there will be adverts, reviews style inspirations and a main story from that month. I do not have many ideas for cover lines but I know whatever it is I will have to include it into the article about them inside. I would like it to be quite different, interesting and a bit confusing to get people intrigued and wanting to read more. I don't want it to be big, it will be a short pull quote to keep it simple. The title I have chosen is BASS I wanted a short title to fill the top width of the page so it is short, snappy and straight to the point. I picked BASS as the title because it is in every piece of music. There is always a baseline.It is also my favourite part of a piece of music because it is the backbone of the song and can always be heard. So I thought it suited the tone of the magazine. I rejected SOUND and KEYS from being titles as I did not think that they were professional enough or as strong as BASS. The font will have to be bold and black to suit the name BASS which is quite heavy. I haven't looked at fonts yet but it will not be a flicky curly one; that does not suit the alternative genre, I want it to be simple, bold and cool. It will be a monthly magazine and will adapt the style at certain points of the year to the major holidays such as Christmas, new year and Halloween. There will be a larger issue in the summer filled with information on festivals, gigs and the places to be. This will suit my target age range. I intend to have an on location photo on the front with the artists in some sort of position together. To get this I will take the band out to a location and take lots of photos. Then the best one I will use for the cover. My magazine will be a simple A4 size.

Research Evaluation

All of my research has shown me that alternative magazines like to be different and apart from everyone else whether that's by being dark and heavy like Kerrang! or extremely polished like Q. They have to come across bold, strong and cool and to do that they get the top celebrities of that genre like oasis for instance. All magazines seem to run along the same lines with a picture, masthead at the top, colour scheme, and lots of cover-lines surrounding it. So to make an alternative style magazine should be quite easy, you just follow the basic guidelines and just change the colours, font and pictures.

Initial Ideas

Flat Plan