Equipment:

In the creation of my photoshoot i shall need a digital camera (to take the pictures with). I may need a tripod, but at the moment it doesn't seem likely that i shall need one.

Photoshoot: Model

For the creation of my magazine, i will need to have a photoshoot taken.

The name of my model is: Emily Mason

My proposal:

My proposal is to create a new music magazine, promoting a new artist. It will include an interview, where he discusses his music career and promote his new album. It will include a new photoshoot (which is exclusive). It will also include advertisments and posters for concerts, keeping to its typical conventions and codes.

Indie Rock: Audience Expectations.

Indie Rock:

The audiences expactations for indie rock magazines is free-flowing and straight to the point. Natural and a stand out colour scheme and someone you can associate with the genre...Indie Rock (Artist/Band). Engaging headings which is friendly to the reader. Trying to keep to most of the coventions of a typical Indie rock magazine, like the main picture is usually placed on the right of the front cover, and starts to cover the mast-head. Special offers are placed in yellow shapes (stand out promotion colours), and the bar code must be placed on the right hand side at the bottom of the page, and must be small-medium sized. The mast-head is usually in Red, and in a bold font (makes company become familiar to the reader).

All these are expactations because it makes the reader become familiar to the magazine, so they understand what genre the magazine is promoting and become even more familiar with the concept and context of the mag.

Magazine production companies.

Magazine Production Companies:

Examples:

• Titan Magazines: Is a magazine publishing group, they own many Forbidden Planet specialist and collectors stores. They publish many magazines for television programmes and films, and are a well known organisation. Some of the magazines they create becoming very collectable and sell for good prices on websites such as Ebay e.t.c.
• EMAP: A british media company, specialising in the production of business to business magazines. There for mostly information and sell 20 types of magazines.
• Bauer Group (UK): They are probably the main and big publishing company in the UK, they sell magazines for any type of Genre. Example: Lifestyle to Music. A big company and earn lots of money for their publications.

Indie Rock magazine: Codes and Conventions.

Indie Rock magazine:

Front Cover

Conventions:

• Mast-head is usually in bold letters and in the colour red. Bright and dominating colour.
• Main-Heading are usually in Red or white, keeping to its front cover colour scheme. The headings are wrote in 'Sans Serif', showing a friendly feel to engage the reader to read this magazine.
• The main image is usually placed on the right hand side of the front cover, it starts to blend over the mast-head, this happens on most of NME front covers. They are also placed on a white background, making the image stand out more.
• Special offers or promotion are usually in yellow.
• They keep to them same, basic colour scheme: Red, Yellow, Black and White. But mostly use the colour red.
• The bar-code is placed at the bottom right hand corner, not much attention is put on the bar-code, so your attention goes on the main-image/headings first.

Codes:

           Symbolic Codes:

• The typical symbolic codes of a music magazine (NME) is the plugs are usually yellow and bold, and placed at either the top of the magazine or the bottom.
• Always include an image on the front cover of the artist, which will be the main point of the magazine.

Genre and Target Audience.

The Genre in which i want my magazine to be focused on is 'Indie Rock'.

The main target audience for this type of magazine is usually teenagers (16+) to young adults, they class this genre of music not to really be associated with young teenagers, as some of the songs contain young adult humour. Indie Rock though can be listened by everyone, as it sells itself to a wide-spread audience.

The Genre of Indie Rock is natural and straight to the point, you can identify this with some of the magazines associated with Indie (Example: NME), as they keep to the natural and stand out colours and their headings are straight to the main focus/main selling points of the magazine. They keep to what they want you to find out. Also Indie Rock comes from the word 'Independent', as the singers and artist promote and try to sell songs themselves, the same to magazines, as they are there own company.