Magazine Propsoal

Final magazine proposal

The genre of my music magazine is Neo Soul.

My final decision for my magazine title is Soul Train. In my questionnaire I listed four titles; there was an equal vote on three titles which were Soul Train, Essence and Heart. I picked Soul Train because the other titles already exists.

The target audience of my magazine is aimed at 25-35 middle class black women from social group C1; they will fit into the rebel’s life style category because they like to challenge mainstream conventions. I decided to create this particular magazine because there are currently no music magazine aimed at this social group and focusing on this particular genre of music. Also there’s no magazine that promotes this genre in UK, this magazine will be unique and different from other magazine that mostly contain commercial mainstream R&B.

My magazine will be published every month costing £2.99. In my questionnaire I put a scale range of prices, most of my target audience voted for £2.99.

On my magazine questionnaire I asked my audience to rank the content of my magazine in order of preference such as Interviews, Album reviews and more. The highest vote I got is for Interviews therefore my target audience prefers to read about the artist’s interviews mostly. I will choose four top voted categories to be put into my contents page, these will be Interviews, new music, promotional offers and album reviews.

The ideology of this magazine will promote to the audience that black female women don’t have to look sexy like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj. This magazine is to celebrate black women who like to be themselves and are proud of how they look and who they are, unlike other fake black celebrities.

The techniques I will use on my first magazine edition is to have a well known artist on the front cover which will be used in a direct mode of address to engage the reader. I will use graphic features to make the specific puffs stand out and use the colours of my magazine to make it eye popping. In this front cover I will not have my central image super imposed over the title block because I will need people to recognise the magazine title, in the future the magazine will then use super imposed on the front cover. 

Draft

The genre of my magazine is Neo Soul. This genre contains soul and contemporary R&B. In this magazine there will be a range of different Soul artist such as Lauryn Hill, Maxwell and Stevie wonder. This magazine will be reviewing on soul artist music, talking about new realises and giving interviews of the artist.

The target audience of my magazine is aimed at 25-35 middle class black women. The reason why I picked this certain audience is because from this age and up, they seem to listen to slow music which is passionate, rather than mainstream pop or metal rock bands, they want to listen to a piece of music that has a meaning and it’s slow, relaxing and smooth.

I decided to create this particular magazine because there are currently no music magazine aimed at this age soul group and getting it more recognised, spreading it worldwide. Also there’s no magazine that promotes this genre in UK, this magazine will be unique and different from other magazine that mostly contain commercial mainstream R&B.

The ideology of this magazine will promote to the audience that black female women don’t have to look sexy like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj. This magazine is to celebrate how black women who like to be themselves and looking natural. To be proud of how they look and who they are unlike other fake black celebrities.