Magazine Proposal

Magazine Proposal

Magazine Title:

The name of my magazine will be Vibez. I have chosen this to be the title of my magazine due to the fact that the word Vibez within the chosen title correlates with the two specific genres that I have chosen to base my magazine on as the genres provide a certain vibe to the audience.

Chosen Music Genre(s):

With regards to my music genre, I would like to use the following genres of Rap and R&B within my magazine. However the main reason for me choosing these genres is due to the fact that both Rap and R&B music is in extremely high demand by the vast majority of individuals as both genres provide the audience with a happy and lively vibe.

Design Features:

My masthead will supposedly match my chosen colour scheme and will include two letters which are S and F, standing for sooth flow. I don’t want my masthead to be simple as I feel that having a simple masthead may make my magazines front cover look boring, so it will have to be eye-catching. Also, the lettering will be a suitable size (size 8 or size 9) and will be a suitable colour from my chosen colour scheme. Furthermore, I have decided that my colour scheme will be blue, dark grey and light grey as they are all very simple but exciting colours.

Magazine Publisher:

After some hard thought, I have come to the decision that Bauer Media will be the publisher of my magazine. Initially, I was thinking of Townsquare Media being the publisher of my magazine but I decided to change to Bauer Media as they are very well known within the UK, which is where my magazine will primarily be distributed. Furthermore, Bauer Media have been very successful within the music magazine industry having published ‘Kerrang!’ magazine for many years.

Target Audience:

The target audience of my magazine will be both males and females aged 16-25. The reasoning behind my chosen target audience is that both males & females really enjoy listening to R&B and Rap music. Furthermore, I have chosen the age group of 16-25 due to the fact that it has been statistically proven that the average person is mainly interested in R&B and Rap music from 16-25. In addition, I feel as if the target audience will mainly be lower and middle class people as upper class people are rich and don’t usually show interests in my chosen music genres.

Content to Include:

Two examples of artists that I may include within my magazine are Bryson Tiller and Meek Mill. This is because both artists represent my chosen genres extremely well. In further detail, Bryson Tiller is an up and coming R&B artist who has already produced a fantastic debut album called ‘Trap Soul’ recently, whilst, Meek Mill has been in the rap game since a teenager looking for a way out of the gang life and has been producing top quality rap songs such as ‘Monster’ and ‘Ready or Not’.

Also, I will include a few free gifts within the magazine that act as a thank you gift to all members of the target audience that decide to purchase my magazine.

Moreover, my aim is include things within my magazine and to do things to my magazine in order to make it different from magazines that have already been published. An example of something I could do to make it different is including random up to date mix tape CD’s in the magazines at no extra cost. This would make my magazine unique and would also help the income received from the sales of my magazine massively.