Inspiration for double page spread

Clothing/Style Mood board

Rock

20 song playlist

This is my 20 song playlist which i have created using modern rock bands that would be featured in a rock genre magazine like kerrang magazine. These songs are from a various amount of bands some with heavy metal singing and others with a lower vocal tone to the song.

Institution That Would Publish My Magazine

I have decided to research on media institutions that would publish my chosen magazine genre. I started by searching for popular media institutions and over all I have come to the conclusion that Bauer Media Group would be the most suitable institution for my magazine. Below I have talked about the research I found out about the institution.

Bauer media group is the institution that produced Kerrang magazine and they own over 80 well known media brands spanning across the world. This institution reaches out to 19 million UK adults every week. The company was first started in Hamburg in Germany which now operates in 16 countries worldwide.

The reason I have chosen Bauer Media Group is because they are the institution behind Kerrang
magazine which is a very prestigious rock magazine which is known worldwide.

Bauer Media Group already produce a rock magazine and it would seem stupid that the media group would also produce my rock magazine as well as Kerrang but the reason they would produce my magazine as well is because my rock magazine if based on new and upcoming rock bands rather than older rock bands that always get shown in rock magazines.

My magazine would fit in along side with Kerrang magazine because Kerrang is a older rock magazine which uses older rock bands whereas my magazine will show new and upcoming rock artists and bands.

25 Word Pitch

These are the ideas for my 25 word pitch.

Artist/Band profile 

Name - The Sirens (Band) 

Members - 3 Girls maybe 1 boy.

Ages: all 16 or 17+

Nationality: English based band, possibly from Leeds or Birmingham

Inspirational Bands: Asking Alexandria, Bring me the Horizon, Green Day, Evanescence and slipknot

Job Roles: all part time at various places.

Educational Status: all either doing college courses or A-Levels

In my 25 word pitch i will speak about what sort of Artist/Band I have chosen to go for and why. I will also speak about the name of my magazine and why I have chosen that name for my magazine and why it fits into the genre I am working with.

Audience Profile

Name: Joe Williams

Age: 17

Background: Lives in Enderby and is currently taking his first year of A-Levels at Lutterworth College

Occupation: Full Time education and part time work as a landscaper with his dad.

Likes: Joe likes to play rugby as he plays for a local team with mates and he also enjoys football as he supports the team Chelsea which are a high status team. Joe also likes to socialise with mates and listen to music in his spare time.

Dislikes: Joe dislikes things such as hip-hop and rap music as he thinks the music is rubbish and hasn't got good enough lyrics so he cannot stand to listen to that genre of music. Joe also dislikes to spend time inside and always has to be on the go.

Ambitions: Joe's ambitions in life it to carry on the family business as a landscaper that his dad and his uncle currently occupy now.

Musical Preferences: Joe is a passionate lover of rock music as he likes to listen to that genre of music all the time with his headphones in. Joe likes to listen to Rock music as he thinks this music is diverse to others and stands out above the rest with a heavy beat.

Idols: Joe's music idols are bands such as "Fall out boy" and "Green day" which are bands which are usually placed into magazines such as rock magazines. Joe also has idols such as heavier rock bands like "Slipknot" and "Bring me the horizon".

Media Consumer Habits: Because Joe plays Rugby often he goes to gym and works out to music often and always listens to rock music while working out. Joe also travels around Leicester playing rugby for his team so he listens to a lot of the radio and his favorite radio station is Kerrang Radio as it plays rock music daily.

Relevant Photographers

Photographers:

Rankin
Rankin is a well known English fashion photographer and in 1999 he founded Dazed Film & TV which was a production company that would produce the first mast-head television broadcast ever.

Terry Richardson
Terry was born in New-York and is a fashion photographer who suffered from schizophrenia and drug abuse problems. He has directed some music videos in his career and also has filmed a documentary about Lady Gaga.

Ellen von Unwerth
Ellen first became famous when she photographed Claudia Schiffer. Her work has been published in top magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and i-D. She won the first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography in 1991.

Craig McDean
Craig originally worked as a car mechanic before he decided to study photography and his work has been placed on magazines such as i-D and The Face which are major magazines. He has had advertising campaigns for clients such as Calvin Klein.

Relevant Graphics Designers

Graphics Designers:

5 names every graphics designer should know:

Paula Scher:
Paula is an american graphics designer and was born in Washington DC and she is also an art educator in design. She was the first female principal at Pentagram which she joined in 1991.

  

Neville Brody:
Neville is an English designer and art director and he became famous from his direction of cult UK magazine "The Face" between 1981 and 1986. In earlier times he is known for redesigning the front cover of the "The Times" in 2006 which created a new font and then the BBC website in 2011.

 

David Carson:
David is the director of the music and lifestyle magazine Ray Gun he became the most influential graphics designer of the 1990's. He was a big fan of grunge typography. The first edition of his End of Print monograph first published in 2000 sold 35,000 copies.

Milton Glaser:
Milton was awarded the national medal of arts by president Obama in 2009. He is widely know for his I Love New York logo which he created in 1977. He has also worked for Bob Dylan, DC Comics and The Brooklyn Brewery as he created all their logos.

Stefan Sagmeister:
Born in Austria, New York-based graphics designer and typographer has had somewhat of a resurgence in the last year mainly because he joined partners with young graphics designer Jessica Walsh. Over the last year he has designed logos for Rolling Stones, HBO and Time Warner.