Inspirational ideas for my magazine

Musicians

• Up-and-coming female artist fresh out of school. Only enjoyed creative subjects at school and always knew she wanted to go into music, so she was determined to get into the music industry the moment she left school. This determination got her to where she is now etc. (Could have a photoshoot of her in schoo uniform in a classroom looking bored and sneakily listening to music. There could also be a shot of her singing into her hairbrush in her room before she became a star, and then a photo of more recently during a live gig or something. This would show how far she has come all on her own)


• Could have a feature article on my double page spread about a brand new boy band. (They need to be quite young looking and cheesy - take inspiration from 'One Direction' maybe?) They will also be young and almost straight out of school. Could mention about how their music teacher suggested that they start up a band and then everything went amazingly well from there. (They would only be singers without instruments though, because instruments are too indie/rock and wouldn't fit in with the genre of pop). Within the interview with them, I could have each one speaking individually about themselves and how they got into music etc - also about style and relationships to keep in with the main subject matters of pop magazines.
  

Conventional Camera Work

• You find quite a lot of close ups in pop magazine - this is perhaps to show the beauty/the make up the celebs are wearing (because a lot of pop magazine content revolves around style and beauty). The front cover will have a blown up close up of the main feature star.


• A lot of whole body shots also to show off the celebrity style and their amazing figures (they follow conventions and think skinnier is better etc).


• Pop magazines try to get the nicest possible pictures of celebs as well as the worst possible pictures of them (I will probably only be able to get good ones because I am only producing part of a magazine and so I don't have enough pages to create an "Embarrasing!" page or something along the lines of that).
  

Magazine Title

• All of the pop magazines I have ever heard of all have titles with words associated with pop in them. For example, 'Top Of The Pops' and 'Smash Hits'. Some of them also incorporate rhyme to make it sound cheesier.


• Name ideas: Hit Pop, Pop It!, Music Now...
  

Fonts

• Titles and sub-headings should be in more graphic, arty fonts and then all of the main articles should be in the same font.


• Font styles I like: Arista>Groovy>dafont.com; Neon>Groovy>dafont.com; Billo Dream>Groovy>dafont.com; Eras Light ICT>Microsoft Word; Calibri>Microsoft Word; Candara>Microsoft Word; Franklin Gothic Book>Microsoft Word.
  

Colours

• I think I want to use a mauve/purple kind of colour alongside a bright sky blue and yellow. Once I begin piecing together my magazine, I might think this looks too dark and not bright or "poppy" enough for a pop magazine, so I could add some little bits of white here and there, or even pink.
  

Sell lines

• There definately needs to be something to do with celebrity romance and celebrity style on the front cover: "Are (x) and (x) a secret item?", "(x) and (x) share a sneaky kiss backstage at (x)!", "Hear (x)'s latest beauty tips!", "Discover (x)'s decade of daring dresses!".
  There also needs to be a quote on the front cover from within the main feature in a larger font than all of the other sell lines (it should be the most exciting/most shocking statement or revelation from the interview. It should either be exactly the same as the title for the actual interview, or a slight variation of it).

Graphics

• Cheesy doodles in any gaps on the front cover (e.g. hearts, flowers, stars, swirls etc).
  Should have the name of the production company on the front cover (e.g. 'Top Of The Pops' has the BBC slogan on its cover

Housestyles

• Similar fonts within every article.
  I want the page number to be in the outer corner of each page. The number should be in purple writing inside a yellow star.
  The border at the top of the page should always be the same width and mostly kept to the same colour (purple with yellow text), apart from on the feature article, which looks completely different to other articles in most pop magazines (e.g. in the February 2011 issue of 'Top Of The Pops', the interview with Justin Bieber had a grey, black and blue colour scheme).
  Margins should always be the same size (text should always be the same distance away from the edge of the page on every single page).