Deciding my Magazines Price

Today I thought about the pricing of my magazine, I researched my style model to see what the price was for my type of magazine.

Here my style model is £3.00 so I made my magazine £2.49 to make it a better price and to challenge the conventions.

Finishing my Templates

Today I finished my templates to make my magazine a lot easier to finish. I have saved these templates as a .psd file also just incase I need to make some changes to the template. Here are the three templates that I created (Front Cover, Contents Page and Double page spread):

Finding a suitable Colour scheme

I have been looking at colours to try and create a mixture of colours to make it fit with my genre (pop/jazz). I was looking for a smart, modern & simple colour scheme. I finalised my ideas with a Black, Orange and White (Gradient White-Grey).

Here is the outcome of this colour scheme:

I have already added a logo, masthead and subhead to give me a better Idea of what my magazine will look like with this magazine.












I also tried other colour scheme's to make sure that this was the colour scheme that is best.
Overall this is the best Colour scheme for my Audience I do believe, Im going to ask people for feedback on this colour scheme and See if it does fit to my audience. If they don't like it I'll find a better colour scheme for my final draft.

Creating My character Profiles

I have pictured what my audience will be and made two character profiles (Male & Female):

Name: Tom Jones
Age: 22
Occupation: University Student
Income: £3,000
Disposable Income: £500
Hobbies: Learning, Socialising & Gaming.
Music: Micheal Buble, Adele, Ed Sheeran etc.
Films: Mission Impossible, Rush Hour, Days of thunder etc.
TV: X-Factor, Soccer AM, The Simpsons etc.

Name: Catherine Robertson

Age: 38

Occupation: Bank Assistant
Income: £40,000
Disposable income: £300 Monthly

Hobbies: Shopping, Dining & Socialising.

Music: Micheal Buble, Ed Sheeran, James Arthur etc.

Films: The Shawshank redemption, Harry Potter etc.

TV: X-Factor, Come Dine with me, Hells Kitchen etc.

Deciding my Magazine title.

I thought about my magazine title today and I wanted to relate it to music.

 Here are the draft titles:

• Bass
• Chord
• Tune
• Loud
• Play

I decided to go with Chord, all of my drafts were short and catchy but I believe that Chord is more suitable for a music magazine because it still relates to music but has a more classy sound to it.