Music Magazine name ideas

The names that I have come up with are all to do music, they are all synonyms of different words, my idea was to make the name short and catchy so that people will remember the name and it will be able to have an attractive and simple masthead that will attract an audience just like other types of magazines do. I think that I will stick to names like 'Pulse', 'Thaw', 'Beat', 'RBM' because these are small and catchy names to have the music magazine named after. RBM means rhythm bass music.

Fader

The brand identity of fader magazine is that they have a large professional picture in the background, the picture covers the whole of the page. The type of pictures that they take is mostly a close up picture, the designers of this magazine obviously take a lot of time editing the pictures and taking many different pictures to get it to the high quality that they are on.

The masthead looks professional and they keep the same font on all of them, although they change the colour of the background of the 'F' this is so that it stands out from the picture in the background and it usually matches what the person in the photo is wearing. This allows the customer to recognise the magazine. At the bottom of the page the headlines that most of the magazines have is the name of the person on the picture, this will show that the music artist will be spoken  out through the magazine and that they are the important person with in the magazine.

XXL is a hip hop magazine, their identity is the bold masthead which has a red background with large, bold writing in it with the name of the magazine, the way that the magazine is set out is with a large image placed in the center of the page. The photographer has used many different shots from close up shots to long shots. The headlines on the magazine is the name of the person in the picture which shows that they are the main person in the magazine and the audience will be able to see who they are if they do not know. The rest of the magazine front cover shows the names of the other people that shows in the magazine. With the headline it has a strapline under neath it to shows a story that is involved in the magazine.

Brand identities and values

Brand identity is the outward expression of a brand, including the name and visual appearance. The brand identity is what the customer uses to identity the product; it shows recognition and symbolizes the brands difference from the competitors. Brand identity includes things such as...

·         Masthead – visual

·         House style – definitive and distinct

·         Associations – the audience

Brand values means what the magazine stands for, for example, NME stands for new music so they feature in their magazine new music.

There are many different magazines with their own Brand Identity, the brand identities are all unique and it makes the magazine stand out. For example, magazines such as ID and fader all have simple front covers; they have a large close up image with a simple masthead and very little text. Whereas magazines such as mix mag, vibe and NME have a picture but have more text, they also change the colour of the masthead in their magazines to match the back ground.

For my magazine I would like to have it similar to fader and vibe, I would like to have these two as they both have very different brand identities, I like the way that fader take the images and the way that the masthead looks professional, but I like the way that vibe change the colour of the masthead depending on the colour of the background.  I want my magazine to stand out from the others, so I will need to make it appealing, I will do this by using good quality images, a large masthead that will catch the audiences eyes, and some interesting headlines.
The genre of my magazine will be a bhangra magazine, this will attract a large audience because there is not a magazine that is published with this genre. The magazine will include pictures of famous people. The masthead will stand out along side the the image that will be on the cover, this will attract the audience as the magazine would look aesthetically pleasing. The brand value of the magazine will be for well known bhangra music.

Prezi - Analysis of Vibe Magazine

Photo shoot plan



What I have learnt

The things that I have learnt in relation to skills, techniques, media concepts and terminology through completing the preliminary activity are...

- With media concepts, I have learnt what different things are, for example a masthead, I have shown my understanding of what a Masthead is when designing different mastheads for my magazine front cover. Another place that I have shown my understanding of media concepts is when I have used different sized fonts for different things so the more important things are in a bigger font.

- On my front cover and contents page I have also tried to use visual syntax so that it makes both pages easier to read.
- The media techniques that I have used are shown also in the front cover and the contents page, it is shown by the colour of them, the colour makes the pages stand out more. Another technique that I have used is by using sans-serif font to make the text clearer and readable for the user of the magazine.

I feel that I have gained alot of skills during this activity because at the start I would have not been able to use the program and I also would have not known what the media concepts are.

final contents page