PLANNING

In order for me to complete my music magazine for my chosen genre which is R&B, there are key elements which have to be taken into account so that the music magazine meets all of the requirements to gain full marks and these key elements which need to be planned include:

·         images - collecting existing images, anchoring, text shot, drawing ideas, thinking about the types of shots and linking the images to the article.

·         target audience - this music magazine is aimed to people aged between 13 and 25 because children who are aged 13 years old are interested in famous singers and they are influenced by these artists and they copy what they wear and how they behave and as they grow older they like to read about the artists' lives and what they get up to.

·         similar media - we have already looked at similar media by researching various R&B music magazines and analysing the cover pages, contents pages and double paged spreads.

·         house style - we ensured that the cover page, contents page and the double page spread all followed the same house style to allow them to look more professional and the house styles that we came up with

·         mast head design - the ideas that we have come up with to be our mast head for our music magazine which links  to the genre of our music magazine which is R&B and the ideas that we came up with include:

   v  Zeal

v  Ecstasy

v  Avidity

v  Ardour

v  Tremor

·  font style - the font styles that we are thinking of using are bold text which stand out in headings however the masthead of the music magazine will be bold and a different colour to the background therefor it will not blend in with the images and the text.

·  audience feedback - we made a table with the tally and we asked each member in our Media class which name they thought was best to be used as a master head for an R&B music magazine and these were the results: 

Masthead name	Tally
Zeal	1
Ecstasy	9
Avidity	3
Ardour	4
Tremor	2

·  design elements - we thought about the layout and the colours that will be used in the magazine

·  schedule - think about the dates and deadlines for the images and think about when you are going to take the photographs, where, who the model will be and also think about the costume and props that will be used and what the model will be wearing.

SCHEDULE

TASK	DEADLINE
Research and Planning	8th February 2013
Magazine	22 March 2013
Evaluation	26 April 2013