Main Task Initial IdeasMartin Noficzer

Aim and PurposeIn this presentation, I will be presenting some of the initial ideas for my magazine. I will be discussing certain aspects of the initial magazine designs, such as the genre. the house-style and the target audience of the magazine. The reason I am presenting this to you is because I need feedback from my peers in order to decide which idea is the most likely to be successful and therefore develop on the chosen idea.

I would like you to think about which design you think would be the most effective and which one

is the one you liked the most.

Idea OneThe first designs is based around techno style music, which would involve dubstep, rave and drum and bass as sub-genres of music. I will base the magazine around these genres and alter my use of images and styles in order to suit my target audience accordingly.

My target audience will be people who are interested in and enjoyed this sort of music, as well as teenagers and young adults. The style of the magazine would have to relate to the lifestyle of the target audience, which would be people who are energetic and live an eventful life.

The style of the magazine would be busy, messy and very colourful, in order to both draw the viewers’ attention and also to reflect the lifestyle of the potential target audience.

Idea TwoMy second idea was to create a magazine that is based on rock n roll style music from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Although this genre is not so popular nowadays, there are still a few magazines that features music from this era, and there are people who still enjoy this sort of music.

The target audience of this magazine would be the people who enjoy rock n roll, mostly adults, as most teenagers are not familiar with this style of music. Therefore, the style of the magazine would have to be quite formal and neat in order to suite the target audience. Although, because this sort of music meant the ‘revolution’ of music at the time, it should be quite unique and casual at the same time.

Features should include reviews of famous artist, big hits, history of artists, and rock n roll nowadays.

Idea ThreeMy third idea is a magazine based rock music, specifically pop-punk, hardcore and alternative rock. The target audience for this magazine will be the fans of this genre of music, teenagers and both genders.

Also, the magazine would have a messy and busy style, as the target audience would be represented as rebellious and non caring, which is the stereotype for most of today’s teenagers. Working with black and white as the two main colours, but including lots of colours that stand out from the background would create an attention drawing and suitable style for the magazine.

Features could include, interviews, upcoming gigs, events and album releases, features of bands and musicians, contests and discussions of certain topics of the lives of the target audience.

Peer Feedback

Lauren: Prefers the third idea, likes the first idea and does not like the second idea because of lack of audience and dislike of music style.