My magazine proposal:

Title of my magazine: Soul- I chose this title for my magazine as firstly, it was most popular from the options on my questionnaire. Secondly, the title gives off a vibe of R&B music, making it obvious what the genre is of the magazine from the title.

Explanation of choice of genre: The genre for my magazine is R&B. I have chosen this genre because it is becoming hugely popular amongst the youth, which is included in my target audience. I have also chosen this genre because it is quite mainstream already and new artists continue to emerge everyday therefore ideas for the contents of the magazine would never run out.

Target Audience Profile:Name: Cally Reed

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: White

Lifestyle: Cally really enjoys listening to R&B music, along with hip-hop. She has just recently started university and enjoys going to gigs with her new friends who enjoy the same type of music as her. The gigs she attends are usually of R&B artists, for example she has an upcoming gig for an extremely popular R&B and hip-hop artist, Drake. However, Cally is also quite interested in electronic dance music. She works part-time (16 hours a week), along with attending university to study bio-chemistry, which allows her to spend money on purchases such as music magazines and concerts.

Initial ideas about front page:

Magazines such as ‘Vibe’ are what I take huge inspiration from for my front cover, as this magazine often talks about hip-hop music and also includes the R&B genre. While ‘Billboard’ is a magazine based on the charts, I take inspiration from that brand too as the front covers are quite classy and I aim to make my magazine covers have a similar effect.

Initial ideas

about contents page:

I aim for my magazine contents page to look more like Vibe’s contents pages as I feel they are more appropriate for a music magazine based on the genre of R&B. An example is:

Initial ideas about double page spread:

I have planned to make my double-page spreads look similar to the style of NME’s double page spreads. I’d like my spread to have images on one side, and text and information on the other so it is clearer for the audience to read the info, and view the image. However I’d like to combine the text and image somehow, like the first example provided below, of the spread

based on Mark Ronson. The title is over the picture and creates a good effect. I aim to recreate something like this.

Initial ideas about photos:

Ideas for the photos heavily depend on the gender of the model for my front cover. I have planned for the model to be female, therefore she will dress as female R&B artists are usually dressed. I have also planned for the model to hold a prop, such as a microphone, or maybe an instrument such as a piano or saxophone could be included, as these represent R&B music the most.