NME
NME has a more general target audience. They are not aiming at one specific genre of music. This works well as they have more of a variety to work with inside. The layout and colouring is pretty much the same on each cover, the magazine name has been written in red with the white outlining, and these colours are contrast and make the bold writing stand out even more. The front cover is quite busy but to keep it calmer they have used simple colour scheme of 3 colours at the most for the text. The focus is mainly on the picture, as the picture tells a story better than the words used. I like the way they have used the simple details which make a big impact. With the cover not being cluttered with text, it captures the eye of the audience more effctively.
From looking at the different existing magazines many of these are aimed towards male, so i have decided that i will create a general music magazine that is aimed towards female. To start of i have had to work out how i can create an image, by the colour scheme, layouts and stories.
The colour scheme i have decided to use is purple, black and white. These are contrasting colours and stand out against each other, and the purple appeals to females as it is more of a feminine colour.
I have decided that i am going to have a clean cut layout, not busy so that it will draw attention to it. Having it simple and focused will make it stand out more. I also want to have focus on images, so i am going to go and collect original images from a planned photo-shoot and upcoming gigs.
I have looked at different fonts on the website dafont.com to find fonts for the different parts of the magazine that would appeal to the target audience.
I needed to come up with a short and catchy name like NME, ideas that i have come up wiht are :
Flare
Beat
Bass
Blaze
Blaze and Flare are the more catchiest of them all, but i think that Flare appeals more to girls rather than blaze, so i will use Flare as the name for my magazine. I have found fitting fonts on dafont.com website for the title, that fit with the name and that fit with the image and that will also appeal to the target auidience.
Now i have decided all of this from looking at the existing products on the market i will now start to collect my images and construct it.