Tuesday 11 December 2012

The Edge features and regulars (contents page)

Regulars:
1) What's hot and What's NOT!
2) Monthly horoscopes with our very own mystic Mel.
3) Ask our very own agony aunt Annie to solve all of your problems!
4) Most embarrassing moment 1-5.
5) Fashion fix!
6) This months gig reviews.
7) Concerts and gigs near you!
8) Have a sit down with our style editor
9) A week in the life of..
10) Top Tweeters this month.
11) Reader response, give us your thoughts on the mag!
12) Street style- the most stylish strangers about this season!
13) Girl guide.. this months MUST have items!

Features:
26) DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD- Artist name and quote.
11) Months giveaway- nail varnishes
5) On tour with Rihanna, the top totty tells us how to keep her crew intact in tour madness mode!
4) Free JLS, THE WANTED, 1D and NORBOYZ posters
5) BE WITHIN A CHANCE OF WINNING TICKETS TO SEE KATY PERRY LIVE!
6) Coral Girls single!
7) FREE posters of pops freshest girl group, 'The Coral Girls'.

Interview questions for my music magazines double page spread.

1) Have you always wanted to know you wanted a career in music or was it a bit unexpected?
2) At the peak of your career who would you aspire to be as successful as?
3) Where do you picture yourself in three years?
4) If you could win any award, one of your choice what award would it be?
5) What would be your dream collaboration and why?
6) Does any of your closest family and friends think it's crazy how quickly you've shot to fame and the extent of it?
7) What's the craziest thing a fans done for you?
8) Whilst were on the subject on fans what is the most random thing a fan has said to you?
9) Were approaching your next tour, how does it feel to have sold out the 02 arena for 5 nights solid?
10) How do you get your personal chill time whilst on tour?
11) In your opinion how have you stayed humble? what's brought you back down to reality with your alter ego as a famous goddess?
12) Can we get any hints as to who your support acts are on tour?
13) Have you got your eye on any upcoming artists or bands for us to look out for?
14) Who do you think still keeps it the freshest, musically wise of course?
15) Who is your biggest musical inspiration of all time?
16) Whats your favorite instrument to play?
17) How much does your family and friends mean to you?
18) BIGGEST CELEBRITY CRUSH?
19) Fave song in charts right now?
20) What has been your most diverish moment?!

Music magazine mood board


Fitting in with the overall genre of my music magazine (Pop) I have chosen these separate pieces from individual magazines in which I feel I would like to incorporate within my magazine. (Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, etc are all pop artist and have all been presented in these magazine in a pop kind of fashion. Most of the colours are bright and intriguing, the camera angles are mostly medium close ups giving a good detailed view of the artist themselves. The double page spreads are uniquely set out yet still show an organised manner, enabling readers to navigate their way through the magazine easily. The double page spreads are large and lexically detailed yet using black and white pictures and fonts mostly they still capture my attention true to a pop magazine, therefore taking all of the magazine clips on my mood board into consideration gives me a good idea design wise when it comes to my magazine, also better knowledge of pop magazine cultures.

Magazine idea rest shots (Cover)

A sample of six taster test shots on this page show what kind of image I am looking for in the cover of my music magazine. Sticking true to medium close ups with the  acception of some full length shots I got my model to due classic 'Pop' poses such as flicking her hair, spinning around, hands on hips etc. Something that as many of the readers of my magazine are females they can aspire to be, the typical girly look, making the models facial expressions also always  happy and smiling again something classical to pop females, they way they are to be represented on pop covers, therefore the refined main image of my front cover will be something similar to these shots with more detail (and maybe colour in regards to the white and black backdrops, I may try some outdoor shots so that the scenery isn't so plain.)






Early music magazine name ideas and masthead designs