Proposal Form - Advanced

Describe your idea for the brief: A rock magazine called “LOUD!” with a busy front cover; covered in the main image with lots of subheadings down the right hand side.  These subheadings will have relevant photos next to them, framed with both square and circular borders. The contents page will have “LOUD! CONTENTS” wrote across the top of the page in bold writing, with the main image and page numbers etc underneath. The double page spread will include updates on the latest band news of my chosen (imaginary) band.

Genre/ sub genre: list similar texts which have inspired your thoughts Kerrang! Magazine – this has inspired me because I really like the typography and the fonts which are used for the cover. The exclamation mark from the title “Kerrang!” has also inspired me to use one in my own work (i.e. LOUD!) Also, the content and types of bands mentioned within Kerrang! Are going to be very similar to the ones I include in mine.

Target audience: gender/ age/ characteristics/ behaviour The gender is mainly towards males with a secondary audience of females and the age range I am going for is between 16 – 19 years. The target audience will stereotypically be opinionated when it comes to music, and they are not the type of person to follow the crowd in order to fit in; different is good. They will be interested in the internet (i.e.Twitter, Tumblr) and they may also like gaming in their free time.

Major conventions I will use The title/masthead of the magazine will be in upper case letters with a smashed effect, (similar to Kerrang!). The front cover will be rather busy with a lot of cover lines covering information on what’s inside the magazine. The colour scheme will be dark to appeal to my target audience.

Conventions I may subvert/ change/ not use I will not make the magazine too over-crowded because otherwise, it will look like its aimed for an audience younger than what I am going for. I may add a few other colours to my colour scheme if I need to, so that it doesn’t lean too far towards the male audience, as I do want it to be gender neutral so everyone can enjoy it.

Original images: what/ where/ what On the front cover, a photo of my friend, Peter, will be taken against a brick wall or in a potography studio. He will be wearing black jeans and either a leather jacket or a flannel shirt, and I will photoshop tattoos onto him to make him appeal to the target audience. He will be looking directly at the camera in order for the mode of address to be direct, and he will be posing as the lead member from my made-up band. His facial expression will be snarling, in order to look more like a 'rockstar'.

Potential difficulties/ Plan B: Peter may be unavailable and will need a replacement under short notice. This replacement will be in the form of another one of my friends, i.e. Georgia or Laura. There could be technical difficulties with the camera therefore other arrangements would need to take place, once again, under short notice.