Here are some examples of
college magazines.

Ideas for my main product
target audience=
mainstream
16-24
female audience

sub-genre=
Punk
Dance

Title of magazine and connotations
Punk= because mostly all the things in the magazine are relating to punk for example Lilly Allen, Kelly Clarkson e.c.t
Mayhem= because there is going to be Lot's of different things in the magazine and because there is so much it's like mayhem.
Muzic= because it's going to be a music magazine and the things inside is also going to be about music.

Ideas for main cover image:
A medium close- up of three or four girls of a girl band stood together.
A medium close- up of just the main artist on the front cover.

Ideas for main splash article:
An interview with the band.
What they have got planned for the years to come.

Ideas for other possible contents:
What is going to be in next weeks issue.
Where and when there tour dates are going to be.
Top 10 this week.

5 main rules to take a front cover image
1. No cluttered backgrounds.
2. Make sure you focus on the lead singer if it is a band shot so the audience KNOW who they are.2.If it is a single artist make sure it is a medium shot - close up- 3/4 image may be good, not centered.
3. Leave room for a masthead (oh, and don't cut heads off!)
4. No high angle shots - they make bad cover images! Fine foe double page spreads but really poor on covers.
5. Animate your band - make sure they look at the camera

6 main rules of taking pictures
1. No cluttered backgrounds e.g (Against a plain background)
2. Make sure you focus on the lead singer if it is a band shot so the audience know who they are.
3. If it is a single artist make sure it is a medium shot- close up eg ( 3/4 image may be good, not centred.
4. Leave room for a masthead (Dont cut off the heads)
5. no high angle shots- they make bad cover images! fine for double page spread but really poor on covers.
6. Animate your ban- make sure that they look at the camera.

How to make something transparent
If you want to take away the white backgounr on images after importing them into Quark (if it hasnt automatically ketp transparency from photoshop), right click on the image > Modify > on both the 'Runround' and the 'Picture' tabs make sure that 'alpha channel' and 'alpha mask 1' and selected > press apply and ok.

Appendix 4- Music magazine indusrty research

The sub-genre of these magazines are all different to fit in with a range of customers, some of them are gossip magazines, information magazines, sport magazines e.c.t

There are a variety of prices for example

Take A Break= 75p

Heat= £1.65

Kerrang=£2.20

FHM=£3.90

Pregnancy&Birth=£2.70

The different magazines have different audience for example if you was to read a magazine like Take A Break or heat they would be a gossip magazine and it would tell you whats happening at the moment weather that would be about celebrities or true life stories, the main target audience for Heat is late teens early twenties. Another magazine that is totally different but is owned by the same company is Spirit&Destiny which has physics and it tells you you're horiscopes. The main target audience is females between the ages of 25-44.

Mgazines like closer have the up to date news and is mainky aimed at women, where as magzines like Bike is a total different sort of magazine where it is aimed at men. Even though the magaiznes are owned by the same company they do a variey of magazines aimed at all differnt age ranges and people and by doing that there profit goes up because there is so many different types of magazines to choose form.

Here is an example of a music magazine Kerrang owned by the company Bauer:

Bauer, a private company who made a breakthrough in the UK in 1987 which owns 166 magazines across three continents for example some of them are called,
Closer
Heat
Grazia
Bella
Take a break
Its life!
FHM
Arena
Zoo
TV choice
TV quick
Total TV guide
Empire
Mojo
Yours
Spirit&Destiny
More!
Pregnancy&Birth
Bike
MCN
What Bike?
Classic bike
Max Power