20 Song Playlist

20 Song Playlist

https://open.spotify.com/user/charlestimms/playlist/3a8Nkzb8CEXkD7uXj9NIWb

Photographers, Graphic Designers and Magazine Creators

Photographers

Emma Summerton

Emma Summerton has a unique style usually the photos will have a lot of unusual clothing and backgrounds however they always work very well. The second image at the top is a great example of this, the clothing is unusual but it all seems to flow. The background is a perfect colour to go with the skin tone and clothing. She has shot for many magazines including I-D and Vogue. I like the way she puts colours together to create a flowing image.

Tony Kelly

Kelly who is originally from Ireland has a great edgy style. All of his pictures are very different to any other photographers and usually quite controversial. He has shot from Vogue, Playboy, and Vanity Fair as well as many other magazines. I like his bright, vibrant pictures with a lot going on.

Graphic Designers

David Carson

Carson is a famous graphic designer, he uses experimental typography in his designs. You can see his design flare especially in his Ray Gun magazine he started, eventually he moved on to start his own studio. I really like how he has such a different and even hectic design style.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. He is best known for his work in The Face magazine from 1981-1986. His pieces often look simplistic yet hectic which is what I would like my magazine to be like. I really like how he manipulates colours and fonts to make great pieces of art.

Analysis of institutions that could publish my magazine

IPC Media now known as Time inc.UK. was founded in 1968 and is a publisher for magazines in the UK. The magazines they publish includes NME which is of a similar genre to my magazine. This company sells hundreds of millions of magazines a year and the fact that they distribute NME which has a similar target market to my magazine shows that they already have a product in that market and have experience there.
I believe publishing this Time inc. (UK) would be a good idea because they are a very succesful company which would help propel my magazine to the right audiences.







Bauer media is a huge publisher that joined the Bauer Media group in January 2008 following an acquisition of Emap plc's consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. They run a huge amount of radio stations, TV stations, websites and magazines. They own a number of very popular music magazines including Karrang! and Mojo. This makes me believe that Bauer Media would have no problem publishing my magazine to the right audience because they already have a huge amount of experience in that field.

Mood Board

Fashion/Styling associated with the genre

Examples of alternative/Indie Fashion

Analysis of existing magazine titles

The DIY logo is very simple yet effective, it's black and white only colour palette makes it stand out. It has a bold font and all the letters in capitals, this makes for a very distinctive three word title. It draws the eye of the reader.

The logo of the Wire magazine is again very simple yet big and bold. It is used to grab the attention of the customer usually being placed over the picture of the main subject. Most magazines put the picture of the subject above the title but Wire does not do this. The title matches the simplistic style of the magazine with very limited colour in most of their covers.

The masthead of Loud and Quiet is very simple as most indie music magazine mastheads are. The name itself is associated with sound which is different to a lot of magazines which are either initials or nothing to do with music like The Wire. The masthead is in capitals and in a chunky font, it is always placed at the top of the page with nothing covering it and a white background.

Audience Profiles

Audience Profiles

My magazine is aimed at 16-25 year old people. This is because of the content inside the magazine being more driven towards a younger audience. It is aimed at festival goers as it has all the latest information on festivals and gigs. There will be articles on new indie/alternative bands and artists as well as articles on more established artists. I am aiming for a relatively short magazine of 50-75 pages, however it will have no ads so will be purely useful and entertaining information. This short, stylish magazine will appeal to my target market.



Below I have created some examples of the type of people who would read my magazine.


Name: Aran Smith
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Interests: indie and rock music, tennis, attending festivals and gigs, cooking and playing guitar.
Favourite shops: Apple, American Apparel, Top Man, Well Gosh.
Favourite bands: Oasis, Blur, The Strokes
Qualifications: A levels in media, english language and cooking.
Occupation: waiter at high up restaurant
He also is very into social media and often posts on Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr.


Name: Emma Jones
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Interests: indie music, attending festivals and gigs, writing songs, singing.
Favourite shops: New Look, ASOS, Phix
Favourite bands: Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, The Strokes, The Killers
Qualifications: A levels in art, english literature and biology.
Occupation: works at New Look
She also has a YouTube channel and posts videos weekly of her singing.

Analysis of magazine covers

Identifying my magazine genre

The genre I have decided to focus my magazine on is general Indie music. I have chosen this because Indie musicians are more quirky and interesting just as I would like my magazine to be. There is no other genre like Indie it's unique and ever changing style makes their music interesting.
An example of an Indie band is the Arctic Monkeys they are 4 fashionable males, their lead singer Alex Turner is the front of the band and has changed his style a number of times by changing his hair and other things. The rest of the band also have different unique looks that when put together work perfectly. Their always evolving style interests me, you can hear through their Indie rock music that they have a unique sound. They have a lot of fans for an Indie band possibly the biggest Indie band in existence. Their fans often look up to them not just because of their music but their style too.

The 1975 are another indie band, their style is also unique less smart than the Arctic Monkeys' but more casual. They attract all sorts of people to their music as it is different but has become very popular in the last few years.

Examples of Indie music magazines