Price

When chosing the price of my magazine I will have to take different factors into account. Firstly how popular my magazine may become will defiinitely alter the price but as it will be going out as a new magazine the price will have to stay quite low for the time being. Also the price of competitors magazine will give me a better understanding of the pricing. The magazines that are on sale today are priced at around £2-£10. Obviously the higher the price the more the magazine will give the reader, and this may include free gifts. As my target audience is mainly for the student generation i need to make the magzine affordable. Also to go into consideration is the money that can be made and the price the magazine is sold at is am important factor to make sure I at least break-even. The price that i think my magazine will sell best at is £2.99. The reason for this is that it is roughly inbetween the two major rival magazines prices which I believe Q is at £3.90 and NME at £2.10.

TargetAudience

I need to make sure that i can decide on the perfect target audience as this is vital to if my magazine will do well or not. By knowing this i will be able to decide on the name of the magazine different types of fonts colours and images used to try and get their attention.

The target audience for the magzine is indie and mauinly for the teenage to mid thirties age group.

ColourSchemes

As i have now chosen my genre of magazine i need to choose a colour scheme that i will use through out the magazine including backgrounds mastheads and text colour. Here are some that i could use;

-Blue/Grey/Orange
-Blue/Orange/White
-Black/White/Yellow
-Black/Grey/White/Blue
-Brown/Orange
-White/Blue/Grey
-Black/Purple
-Grey/Black

I feel all of these colour varieties would work well with my indie magazine. Out of these options i am going to use the colour scheme Black/Grey/White/Blue.

MusicMagazineTHEME

Here are the list of the possible music themes that i could chose from:
Indie
Rock
Dance
Pop
Rap
Heavy Metal
R&B
DJ
Hardcore
Grunge

FinalDecision

I have now come to my final decision of font and also name of the music magazine. The font that i will use is Harabara. I like this font as it is simple but yet stylish and i think it works well with my magazine. The name of the magazine is Indie-pendence. The reason for this is because the magazine is based on indie music so i have used a pun in the title. Above is an image of the title in the font that is going to be used.

Planning;FONTS

These are a few of the possible fonts that i like which i may use in my final front cover masthead title.

FrontCoverLayout1

This is the first idea that i have thought of of how i am going to layout my magazine front cover.

Now i have finished my research and pre lims i am now beggining to start my planning stage. The genre that i have chosen for my magazine is Indie. Now i have chosen this i need to find name for my magazine. I am now going to create posts to show my ideas of what i am going to call my magazine and also how to lay it out.

Pre Lim contentspage.

This is my first pre lim contents page, it is very basic and like the fron cover has room for improvement.

Pre Lim front cover

This is my first pre lim that i have created. This was made with room for improvement if needed over the next few weeks.