music magazine deconstruction

MUSIC MAGAZINEDECONSTR-

UCTION Sian Hayden

Magazine Genre

• I have decided to create a magazine with the genre of ‘Charts and upcoming musicians’ I feel this genre has a very wide target audience because any gender and any age of person may be interested in this music. Also if an upcoming chart artist is a Reggae singer for example people who normally would buy this type of magazine and reggae lovers will buy the magazine this month.

NAMES

Firstly I had to think of a name for my music magazine so I brainstormed some ideas. I chose Sync.

Vibe

Sync

Beat

Tunes

Insight

Major

Melody

Base

GO

Shake Pulse

WHY SYNC? • I have chosen the name Sync because I think

that the name is original in the world of music but relates well to the reading of exclusive information of singers and stars.

• When I think of the word sync the things that come to mind are when I am syncing music to and MP3 or iPod. Also the name is short and easy to remember.

MASTHEADS

These are my initial ideas for mastheads on the front cover of my music magazine. I have chosen these colours because I feel that they look modern and sophisticated as

the word sync is a technical term the colours and font needed to be sheik.

• The colours I have used for these mastheads are suited to both male and female which

widens the target audience for my magazine. • Another idea for my mastheads are to have an

arrow in between the gap or the circle in the C of Sync.

MAIN IMAGEOn the left is my image without any cropping to suite the cover. I decided to flip the image and then crop it towards the face because I feel that this sort of image is mostly found on magazines and therefore would make my magazine look more professional and like the others on the market at the moment.

I chose this image because I feel that it most suites my genre and my design for the magazine as she would be looking down at her name.

FONTSThere are 3 fonts I have chosen to use on my cover so that the magazine does not look messy and it looks sophisticated.

I have chosen these fonts because they are clear and eye-catching towards the audience.

The purple on the right is a pull quote from the main article in the magazine and the font suites the artist and the style of her music.

HOUSESTYLE AND MODE OF ADRESS• The house style of my music magazine will be a

continuous swatch of colours being rich , dark purple, light natural tones and grey. I feel these colours suite both genders. I have chosen these because the colours are contrasting against each other and stand out.

• The mode of address I am going to give is an informal language with a variety of ‘lingo’ depending on the genre of the music/ singer and how they speak. For example I will write using English slang for Ellie Goulding.