My Final Magazine

This is the front page, contents page and double page spread of my final magazine. 

With the featured band called 'precious influence' who have the lead singer Ruby. 

My magazine has a 'grunge indie

' style and so does the band precious influence. 

My band name

I chose the band name of 'precious influence' as when looking at the names of similar genre bands they were all unique. The quirky names give a sense of the bands individuality.

The delicacy of the word precious reinforces the femininity of the lead singer whilst 'influence' suggest their power to change and influence the music industry which they intend to do. This therefore mirrors the personality of the lead singer, a woman who's femininity and dominance are both evident. 

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.