Front Cover

Draft of Double Page Spread + Front Cover

Front cover + double page spread, potential images

Contents Page Ideas&Drafts

This is a draft of my contents page. Music magazines usually are jam packed full of information, images and other stuff related to music, sometimes even a free CD.
I want to make it look like the magazine has been running ages so i have included an 'Every Week' column and then a column for that issues feauterd contents such as the main interview with a certain band.

Magazine Name

I have narrowed it down to three magazine titles;

• TT (The Tramp)
  I chose this title because the word tramp is a word not many people like to be called usually but nowadays it is a nickname given to people interested in indie music and dress in a certain way such as messy and quirky. Tramp could also be used to describe a beat.
• YMB (Your Music Bible)
  I chose this title because I think it's very simple but very clever as it would be a religion to some people to go out a buy it every week and read it as if it was the bible.
• TS (Talking Shoe)
  I chose this one because it suggests the magazine has a lot to say about music and it reflects the reader because when I think of an 'indie boy' I think of batterd old sanshoes, hence 'talking shoe'.

LIIAR Analysis of Q Magazine

Q magazine has been published since 1986 and is still published today. As one of the first music magazines to

be aimed at an older audience, Q is not just a music magazine, it also contains topics such as sport and politics.

Audience Profile
Open minded experience seekers, the Q audience don’t define themselves by the music they listen to. Music is an important passion, but their love of music will never be to the detriment of their other passions, such as film, sport and comedy.http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Q/The front cover of this edition of Q has legendary Beatle, Paul McCartney on the front. The grey scale image makes the front cover look more professional and adds more class to something that was in colour. The image itself could be seen as quite symbolic in the sense that because you can't see his mouth and only his eyes that inside the magazine and in his interview he reveals himself and lets you in.
The main text such as the logo 'Q' and the quote that is the main part of the front cover 'It's impossible..' are both in red which tells us that they are important things. Also the cover is very plain and simplistic which also re-endorses the fact it's very classy.  

LIIAR Analysis of 'NME'

 NME (The New Musical Express) contains indie music and other alternative music. This 'Joy Division' edition has the bands front man, Ian Curtis smoking a cigarette in black and white, it's a very well known image. Because the image is in black and white the rest of the magazine matches by putting the font in black and white, but leaving the NME logo in red.
In the bottom right hand corner the font type looks like someone has written it and this reflects the genre of music you would find in the magazine because it would resemble gig lists and autographs and just general laziness.
They use two images on the front the main one of Ian Curtis and the Joy Division album cover, whereas usually there would be at least four or five but because Joy Division are seen as complete legends in that sort of music world and genre the front page is dedicated to them.

     The double page spread matches the front cover by repeating the colour scheme of black and white images and writing. The left page introduces the article and uses the same title that's placed on the front cover '30 years of Joy 1979-2009'. It also uses a big image of Ian Curtis who is smoking a cigarette like in the image on the front cover and the images of his band mates playing their instruments are placed beside the picture as if replicating the old photo booth stripes to give the reader a sense of time. What NME usually do in their magazine is give the reader a fact file of the band they feature to give readers a bit of knowledge about the band. They section this part off by using a light brown cardboard colour and black writing suggesting the bands 'not a care in a world' image they portray through images and such things like that because it looks as if someones has got  piece of cardboard and cut it out and stuck it on without giving it any thought. They are an edgy band and NME is an edgy magazine.  

Price £2.20

Frequency Weekly

Circulation 56,284

Readership 411,000

Launch Date 1952

Male/Female 73%/27%

Average Age 25

ABC1 73%

Target Market Men 17-30


http://www.nme.com/mediapack/pdf/nme_media_information_full.pdf

• 80% of NME readers feel that music is an important

part of their lives

• 79% of NME readers like to listen to new bands

• 63% specially choose to listen to indie/guitar bands

• 49% specially choose to listen to live bands in studio

• 52% are interested in taking a musical

course/qualification

• 36% are thinking of buying a musical instrument in the

next year

Images!