My Target Audience

My target audience

My target audience are those interested in indie rock/ alternative music. The bands featured will be of this genre, and any features within the magazine will be geared towards the general interests of those who like this genre. For example, festivals with an indie rock band headline act is more likely to be reported in the magazine as oppose to if one direction were headlining.
http://www.looemusic.co.uk/looe-music-festival-previous-years/
This music festival has acts that would be perfect to feature on the magazine playing there, making advertising it a good idea for inside the magazine.

Magazines with a similar target audience include niche magazine like 'Arthur' that claim to 'give credit to the artists largely ignored by the mainstream music advertising'

First draft of contents

I had an idea to make my contents page like a collage of images so I decided to make a draft idea to see how feesable it would be. 

Although not the images I plan to use in my final magazine it allowed me to play around with the positioning of numerous images to see how they would fit. I thknk with more image manipulation the idea could work for my final contents page. 

Contents page

I plan for my front cover to have a collage of support artists to illustrate those artists inside the magazine.
Some of the photo's I'm planning to include the photos I take at the photo shoot I'm planning as well as others including two of males dressed in indie style clothes to emphasize their genre.

Organisation- photo shoot for supporting artists

I had a photoshoot with my main artist to get numerous images for my cover, contents and double page spread. I asked her to bring a range of outfits including black clothing to get the image for the cover page as I wanted the cover to be predominantly black and white. 

Also as I wanted to portray a softer side on the double page and contents I got her to wear 'flowing, warm' clothes and with the use of props we created a 'fun loving, happy' artist. 

I think the photoshoot was successful as we gathered many images that would be useful and illustrated the ideas I had for her. 

Masthead

I chose the masthead I did as I felt it portrayed the 'grunge' image I wanted for the magazine, aslo it has an element of a handwritten style that I got the idea of in the preliminary task 

Masthead font ideas

Organisation

These are some photographs of one of the models I wish to use in my magazine as a supporting artist. Apart from being undoubtably beautiful, I think she has a versatile look and so will be able to fit the style of any genre she is given.

The particular character I had in mind for her would be a solo artist, with a similar music style to Lana del ray.