Name ideas for my product:

For my music magazine i tried to think of appropriate names that would be suitable and fitting for a music magazine. Doing my research i found that many magazines had short, to the point names that would not take up the entire magazine cover. I began thinking of different names such as NOISE, BEAT, TEMPO, SILENCE. I finally decided to settle on BEAT. After choosing my name i then had to decide on a font. I didn't want the font to be too over the top and over powering the main aspects of the magazine on the cover. Here are some examples of fonts i considered using:


Yet after going over these i decided to use a very simple and plain font which i think is very effective in a maroon colour to brighten it up:







Colour Scheme: for my colour scheme i decided to use a range of colour that would compliment each other well and also appeal to my audience, as you can see i decided to use a standard black and white for the majority writing but for mastheads, sub headings and tag lines i decided to use a pale pink, pale blue, burgundy and grey which i think all compliment themselves, also with the photos set in a garden a dominating colour of green comes through also.




The Band:
For my band i have decided to use myself and my friend as a "house electro" duet. i think by choosing this genre it will appeal more to my target audience as it is quite alternative and different. Also i think with only small members of this band it will be easier to photograph them.

Research of conventions of magazines:
I have analysed a number of different magazines to find out all of the conventions each of them uses to help me in producing my magazine to either use these conventions or go against them.
For front covers the norm conventions range from: A masthead, usually done in a logo form, placed to the left of the magazine so it is easier to see logo when the magazines are stacked in a shop
a bar code
a main focal image, usually of a band
a selling line
date of the issue
numerous other images
sub headings
special offers, giveaways
For contents pages there are: The contents of the magazine
images
masthead
dateline
For a music magazine double page spread: Images of the things/people the article is based upon
highlighted quotes
images
title
sub headings
color scheme
font colors
header and footer
page number
information concerning the people/things the article is about