My Magazine Proposal

Magazine Proposal

Genre: Indie/rock

Ideas for title of Publication

Solo: Solo career

Tune: tuning a guitar is seen to be a part of being a rock artist within the Music Industry because it’s an important musical instrument (for authenticity)

Upbeat: hard upbeat music when playing the guitar for a long term period

Final Choice: I chose on the masthead titled ‘Extreme’ because it represents the true definition of my genre of music, which is indie/rock as they tend to have hard core and loud music played in such a long period of time. Also, Extreme is another word of saying ‘a highest degree’ as in something is supreme and great. This signifies that my magazine would have great expectations from its main target audiences and it would include other supreme and ‘great’ labelled artists that are well-known for being in the indie/rock music industry, such as, Paramore and Johnny Marr as well; so this would be able to encourage the audiences to read the magazine as it would bring them up-to-date information, stories, news and music to them.

Content

(Featured Artists)

Paramore, Tokyo Hotel, Ed Sheeran, Green day, Johnny Marr & Aero Smith.

(The Regulars)

1.    Top 10 songs of the month

The top 10 songs/track of the month listed in no alphabetical order as the main target audiences would be able to get up-do-date with the most popular tracks of the month by a particular indie or rock artist in the industry.

2.    Album Reviews

The album reviews would have the opportunity to mention and promote a particular artist for their new current album that’s only been out a few hours ago. This way, the audiences would read the review and would want to start listening to the album if the reviewer had a way of persuading the audiences to listen to it, when they say they would recommend the album towards the indie/rock style of music.

3.    Main feature model interview

The target audiences would ask to tweet o post their set of questions to the band/musician/artist about any topic involving their career or personal lives. Then the most popular tweets or relevant posts would get selected for the artist to answer.

4.    News & Discoveries

This topic would be about reviews, relevant images and new information context about different particular of artists that are famously well-known for their own style of genre music and also for those new comers and unknown artists that just signed in the Music Industry. This topic would not only include featured artists from the UK but also from all over the world as it allows to ‘discover’ different sound and style of music from each individual artist in order for them to become well-known and gain popularity by gaining their own fans. From the magazines point of view, I think that it’s a great way for the unknown artists to feature on my magazine because you never know, one day they may start getting fame and it will all be because of magazines giving them chances to feature in order to let the fans know, from the magazine itself, about these new featured artists as they would listen to your sound of music and like it as we would be able to review it, as well. After, fans can give us suggestions on which artist we could feature on to the next issue of our magazine obtained.

5.    Adverts

I would be able to give some advertisements for a new movie or even give discounts from fast food such as, KFC or Burger King because it would be able to entertain the audiences and be able to get a cheap price for a meal so they would continue to purchase the magazine for an even more discount token in the future.

Audience

For my main target audiences, it would mostly be girls aged 16 + years old compared to boys because I have found a similar genre of my own magazine, which is NME magazine as it include indie/rock featured artists as it links back to my own genre as it’s the same.