Coverlines.
Remember that your front cover is trying to sell your magazine- you need to tantilise your reader. You should be hinting at what's inside the cover in a way that entices the reader into buying your magazine. So try to think of headlines for the smaller stories that will do this.
-Tokio Hotel: The Germans Invade.
-Avenged Sevenfold: A man down.
-My Chemical Romance: The fresh chapter.
- HIM: We almost gave up altogether.
- Aiden: It's All Or Nothing.
- Mindless Self Indulgence: Jimmy cancelled Christmas!
- The Used: Inside Bert's house.
- Marilyn Manson takes it too far.
-You Me At Six- The Boys Are Back In Town.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
The Front Cover: III
Features
Now brainstorm possible artists who could appear on your front cover. You will need to think of artists who are going to appeal to your target audience and about whom you have a story to write about (ie. they will be in the news for a particular reason.) Give reasons for your suggestions.
*Avenged Sevenfold:
A comemorative feature would be included about the sudden death of their drummer, Jimmy ''The Rev'' Sullivan at 28 due to as yet unknown causes.
*My Chemical Romance:
Their new album is due to be released in the Spring. The feature would include an interview with the band to promote the album. This would help target my audience specifically since this band is well known through the target group, whether they like the band or not.
*Tokio Hotel:
Their new album has just been released and they are about to begin a European tour, plus they won several awards at prestigious shows in the past year and they continue to get bigger. This could be an ''exclusive'' since they haven't yet done a full magazine feature in the UK yet as their main success until now has been in main-continent Europe however, this is changing rapidly.
*A fictional all girl rock band under the name ''Taboo''
This would hit the objective I had set to use more female input in the magazine as I noticed a gap in the market for this. This would include a full feature and interview with the band who just hit the number one spot in seven countries with their debut album, ''Traumatic'' and the single, ''Darkness = Zombies.''
Main Feature
You will need to pick one of these who will be your main feature {ie. with their picture on the front cover} and also select artists from the rest whose names will appear on the front cover [ie. who have articles written about them inside.} Try to think of future cover stars too. Give reasons for your suggestions.
The main feature of this would be ''Taboo'' who would have a double page spread with an interview. This would be an 'exclusive' since they are an all new act. The article would touch on topics to do with their new fame and they, themselves.
Future cover stars would include people such as Tokio Hotel whom are gaining sucess and getting more well known through lesser mentions in the magazine, HIM whom are planning a new tour after their album gets released as well as Steel Panther who are quickly becoming a huge act. This would cater to my audience and also help to cement my magazine as the magazine who brings you new music first.
Now brainstorm possible artists who could appear on your front cover. You will need to think of artists who are going to appeal to your target audience and about whom you have a story to write about (ie. they will be in the news for a particular reason.) Give reasons for your suggestions.
*Avenged Sevenfold:
A comemorative feature would be included about the sudden death of their drummer, Jimmy ''The Rev'' Sullivan at 28 due to as yet unknown causes.
*My Chemical Romance:
Their new album is due to be released in the Spring. The feature would include an interview with the band to promote the album. This would help target my audience specifically since this band is well known through the target group, whether they like the band or not.
*Tokio Hotel:
Their new album has just been released and they are about to begin a European tour, plus they won several awards at prestigious shows in the past year and they continue to get bigger. This could be an ''exclusive'' since they haven't yet done a full magazine feature in the UK yet as their main success until now has been in main-continent Europe however, this is changing rapidly.
*A fictional all girl rock band under the name ''Taboo''
This would hit the objective I had set to use more female input in the magazine as I noticed a gap in the market for this. This would include a full feature and interview with the band who just hit the number one spot in seven countries with their debut album, ''Traumatic'' and the single, ''Darkness = Zombies.''
Main Feature
You will need to pick one of these who will be your main feature {ie. with their picture on the front cover} and also select artists from the rest whose names will appear on the front cover [ie. who have articles written about them inside.} Try to think of future cover stars too. Give reasons for your suggestions.
The main feature of this would be ''Taboo'' who would have a double page spread with an interview. This would be an 'exclusive' since they are an all new act. The article would touch on topics to do with their new fame and they, themselves.
Future cover stars would include people such as Tokio Hotel whom are gaining sucess and getting more well known through lesser mentions in the magazine, HIM whom are planning a new tour after their album gets released as well as Steel Panther who are quickly becoming a huge act. This would cater to my audience and also help to cement my magazine as the magazine who brings you new music first.
The Front Cover: II
Masthead
You need to design a masthead for your magazine- it needs to be clear, bold and eye-catching.
My magazines name will be: High Voltage
Possible tag lines:
* Making the rhythm and reason collide.
*All about the music.
*The number one music weekly.
*Always first on the scene.
The Front Cover: I
Colour Scheme
Start off by thinking of possible three part colour schemes that you would like to have on your front cover. You need to think about how your colour scheme will appeal to your target audience. They will need to represent your musical genre in some way. Try to think about how different colours affect each other- what are their connotations? Come up with more than one scheme, as you will be hoping to release more than one edition of your magazine.
-With choosing a rock genre I have looked at examples of magazines and I have found that they usually use a dark base colour with bright or eye catching brights as accents.
*Black, orange and white. (Connotation of energy.)
*Black, purple and white. (Appears to be royal.)
*Black, yellow and red. (Electric, this links to the idea of the magazine being called something such as High Voltage or Amped.)
*Black, neon green and pink. (This is a mish-mash of two contrasting shades and in my mind leads me to thinking about alternative music and the name Taboo as a magazine possibility.)
Start off by thinking of possible three part colour schemes that you would like to have on your front cover. You need to think about how your colour scheme will appeal to your target audience. They will need to represent your musical genre in some way. Try to think about how different colours affect each other- what are their connotations? Come up with more than one scheme, as you will be hoping to release more than one edition of your magazine.
-With choosing a rock genre I have looked at examples of magazines and I have found that they usually use a dark base colour with bright or eye catching brights as accents.
*Black, orange and white. (Connotation of energy.)
*Black, purple and white. (Appears to be royal.)
*Black, yellow and red. (Electric, this links to the idea of the magazine being called something such as High Voltage or Amped.)
*Black, neon green and pink. (This is a mish-mash of two contrasting shades and in my mind leads me to thinking about alternative music and the name Taboo as a magazine possibility.)
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