Initial ideas

My magazine will be mainly rock music therefore there will be mainly young rock bands featured within, however they could be some older bands to appeal to the older generation but they won’t be featured too often.  It will be a weekly magazine and therefore will cost around £2 to make it easy for my target audience which is mainly students to afford the magazine and therefore buy it every week. It wouldn’t make sense to have a weekly magazine targeted at 15-30 year olds and then price it at £5 because they simply wouldn’t be able to afford it and therefore not able to buy it every week. Also there would be no point in featuring artists such as Rhianna or Lady Gaga because it wouldn’t interest readers of a rock magazine and therefore they would not want to read it and therefore not buy it. 

The type of shoot I want to use for my front cover and double page spread is a new young rock band on the scene who have had to play a lot of really rubbish gigs along the way, playing all the ‘toilet clubs’ up and down the country but now have got their big break. The main photos will be them in a rehearsal studio kind of chilling out there. That will get across the fact that they’re always thinking about the music whether they are playing or not. However another idea I’ve had is for the band to be hanging out at the Humber bridge looking out into the river and the bridge itself implying that they know they’re about to go on this long journey but they have no idea where they’re going to end up in the next few years. There will be an interview with the band discussing everything from how they started the band and the laughs they’ve had along the way all the way to now and what they plan to do in the near future. The type of clothes they will be wearing are just normal clothes that lads of that scene would wear and the fact that they are just normal working class kids would mean they wouldn’t be wearing incredibly expensive clothes. However I do have an idea for the band to be wearing black suit jackets at the bridge in the fact that they are looking to aim for better things and get away from their home town. I could have the photos in black and white as that is a classic look for bands however I could have them in colour to show the optimist of the band and that they have big plans for the future.  Because the photos might be outside I can’t really do anything about the lighting however if the photos are taken inside I could control the lighting. It will be bright lights to show that the band are looking at their career in a positive light rather than having it dark and depressing.