First design

Layout Designs

Please choose which is your favourite out of the front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Front cover photos

This is going to be the front cover for Audio Magazine!
Which background does everyone prefer?

Circulation figures

I got these results from http://dezji.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/uk-music-magazine-circulation-figures-to-dec-2008/

Classic Rock 70,188 (66,632 / 67,399)

Kerrang! 52,272 (60,294 / 76,937)

Metal Hammer 50,269 (48,540 / 45,809)

Mixmag 30,159 (34,073 / 35,817)

Mojo 100,507 (106,367 / 106,218)

NME 48,459 (56,284 / 64,033)

Q 103,017 (113,174 / 131,330)

 Rock Sound 20,011 (22,527 / 23,021)

Terrorizer 13,786 (14,952)

Uncut 87,069 (86,925 / 91,028)

Word 34,280 (33,775 / 33,217)

These results show that the most popular magazine in this particular year was a classic  rock magazine, with Kerrang! coming a close second. Kerrang! being high in sales doesn't surprise me, but a classic rock magazine does, this is because Kerrang! includes many genres of music whereas a classic rock magazine would only contain classic rock. I think this surprising result could be due to older people buying a classic rock magazine as well as teenagers giving it a much wider audience unlike Kerrang! which  is a more teenage based magazine.

Treatment Sheet

The Magazine: Audio

Target Readership: My magazine will be aimed at teenagers that are probably in college, I think it would mostly be aimed at festival goers as there will be various information including upcoming festivals. My magazine would be aimed at the middle class, as they would have to be able to afford a frequent magazine, they would also have to be able to afford festival tickets and gig tickets. They will most likely be full time education and their parents will provide the money for the magazine. The people that will buy this magazine will possible be in a band or involved in music in some way.

Form and Style: Audio is an A4 Colour magazine, but it may include black and white images at some point. It contains festival reviews and information, interviews with famous or upcoming bands. Cover models with link to the information inside each magazine, they will probably be in the indie style as the magazines main genre will be indie, and they will mostly be popular bands that people are automatically drawn to. There will be a red and black colour scheme on the front cover and this will make it stand out but also look simple and expensive at the same time. On the strap line competitions will be advertised in order to draw people in. The magazine will sell at £2.50 and will be a monthly magazine, this will make it affordable.

Themes and Typical features: There will be regular features, such as question pages, and email pages and competitions. Although these will feature in every issue they will obviously vary depending on who writes in to the magazine. The language used will be music related as most readers will be involved and up to date with music.

Potential Advertisers: The main type of advertisers will be music related or things the readers would find interesting. There will be adverts about new CD’s and some examples of advertisers would include HMV, Tesco and companies that sell band merchandise

Editorial Team: The editorial team for Audio magazine will be made up of professional and experienced writers. There will be interrogating interviewers in order to give the reader something interesting to read. Readers of the magazine will also will also be asked to contribute every month in the form of emails, texts and letters giving opinions, statements and questions.

This front cover is very busy. The Masthead is being covered by the picture, this shows that the magazine is well known and popular. the colour that have been used at red, green and yellow and these are because they are the rastafarian colours and the person on the front cover is bob marley, this shows a clear and easy to understand link. although the cover is very busy, the use of the white background helps to balance out the cover, this is also emphasised by the use of a black and white image of the famous celebrity. They have used a CD on the front cover and this is a way of clearly showing what will be included in the magazine, this is also in the rastafarian colour scheme.

Kerrang

This contents page is very busy, although there is a colour scheme, it still appears to be very over whelming. The titles are made to stand out by them being yellow and black. At the top of the page there is a big block of text, which would probably deter the reader from reading it. There are 6 pictures and the biggest one, being the biggest article. The page numbers are bigger than the text, emphasising the biggest and most important articles. Although this contents page appears overwhelming it also suggests that there is alot of stuff in the magazine therefore worth your money.