Magazine proposal

I will name my music magazine ‘H.I.T' and it will be a hip-hop/urban genre.

House style: my colour scheme will consist of red and yellow. The mast head will be right at the top and will be red, it will be bold and will behind the cover star’s head. I choose to do this as it makes the masthead of the magazine stand out and eye-catching, also by putting it at the top and behind the cover star’s head, it follows the conventions of a professional music magazine. I will choose a simple but fun font, maybe something like Arial for my masthead, and stencil STD for the cover lines.

Layout of the cover will be the cover star in the middle, with about 3-4 cover lines around them filling up the page. The contents page will have 2-3 pictures placed around the page(s) and will have an editor’s note on the side. The DPS will have a picture on one page with the title at the top and will have the article on the other page next to it with pull quotes. My cover star will be a girl (this allows the male gaze theory to take place, as this attracts more of a male audience) and she will be giving direct address. She will also be in the contents page along with a few other people.

I am not sure who I will be photographing yet as I have not made that decision yet. In my contents page I will have things like an interview with the cover star page number, gossip page number etc. 

My publisher is Townsquare Media. I chose them as they have a high reputation, and are well known for owning magazines and radio stations that are hip-hop/urban related. Also, they don’t have a British hip-hop/urban magazine that is targeted at a young audience in the UK so there is room for my music magazine in their company.

My audience is both males and females, ages 15 and up. This is because of the artists that will be featured in my magazine as well as the content (gossip, competitions, latest tracks etc.). However, there will be more of a male audience targeted due to the pictures of females I will be using to attract them, also, most songs will be by artists that attract mostly a male audience.