Reserching exisitng magazines which have coverage of gigs and festivals.

After delivering my pitch and gethering feed back, I decided to reserch magazines that had coverage of gigs and music festivals. Because it's going to be a important aspect of my own music magazine. When reserching I found more websites had coverage than actual magazines but the more mainstream music magazines including 'NME' and 'Q' also advertised and recommended gigs/ festivals. I came across a helpful website when reserching called 'TimeOut London' which has great links and I will definitely be using the website along with 'NME'/'Q' magazine for help/inspriation when creating my music magazine.

                     

Audience Profile

Jordan is a 19 year old aspiring musician that lives in the heart of London, he works part time in a well known street wear store 'size?' he frequently attends local gigs with his friends around the area he lives. And every year takes the time two visit two of his favourite music festival Benicassim and Glastonbury. Jordan  has a particular interest in bands not widely heard of, yet he also likes the more mainstream artists that fit in to the 'indie/alternative' genre. He also has a keen interest in fashion and art after studying them both at A-level. He enjoys going to see up and coming bands that advertise in his favourite music shop and takes inspiration from their styles. He is a very outgoing individual that dosen't like to follow the crowd. Since he can remeber with the spare money he has he has been buying music magazines that very much focus on the music genre he listens to these include "NME" and "Q" magazines, even though he follows these magazines very closely he would like to have a new magazine that fits into the style he would like perfectly. As "NME" magazine is aimed mainly at men with 73% of it's auidence being male he would spefically like this new up and coming magazine to be aimed more at males in his age range, this being 16-25 year old students with a passion for music, art and fashion. He thinks the price of £3.50- £4.50 a month is acceptable, but he would be prepared to pay slightly more if the magazine came out less regularly, but of course featured more.

My Pitch

After delivering my pitch to my class members, I felt it was recived very well. And the feedback was all positive, at this stage I don't feel as though I need to make any changes. But I may feel different after creating a mock up and reserching exisitng magazines which have coverage of gigs and festivals.

Representation Of Social Group Within My Magazine

The social group I am representing in my magazine would be fairly typical for the alternative/ indie music genre, The age range that I am targeting is 16-25 they would particularly have a keen interest in fashion and art. And would frequently attend local gigs/ music festivals. My audience would also be influenced by the fashion of the artist/band featured, as this would be the style that my audience would like/follow. My audience would listen to artists/bands such as Bombay bicycle club, Foals, The Strokes, The Joy Formidable, Arcade Fire, The xx and The Raconteurs. Celebrity examples of this style would include Pixie and Peaches Geldof, Alexa Chung, Nick Grimshaw and Fearne Cotton.Also other various band members and singers.

Font Samples

When looking for a font to use for my magazine masthead i used 'My Fonts','Dafont' and 'Abstract Fonts' I was looking for a bold font that also reflected the name of my magazine 'Dirty Digest', The magazine will be an Indie/ alternative music magazine which will also include Fashion, Events and Art.I found some fonts that were handwritten and thin not appropriate for my magazine instantly I knew they wouldn't be as well recived as well as some of the other fonts. I wanted my font to have a young, edgy and informal feel to it, that wasn't overly complicated. I felt this was achieved in the last nine fonts

Reserch for my Music magazine

I like how this image/layout has been put together. I may re-create something similar when taking my own photos and creating my front cover.

 

I've found this website very helpful, the content of the website is similar to the content I would like to advertise in my own magazine.

Magazine covers that have caught my eye