Magazine title

After evaluating my class feedback on my title page I have decided to go with the name 'Break Down'

Audience + Profile

My magazine will appeal to teenagers aged from 12-19. The target market is quite a young age therefore the magazine must be reasonably censored. The magazine is targeted towards both genders and I will show this through the reversed gender stereotype idea which is where the male is following the stereotypical female role and vice-versa. The magazine is also aimed at guitarists and people who are learning the guitar as it will have tabulators and chords ETC

Audience Profile
Name: Katie Ford
Age: 17
Favourite bands: Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Green Day
Favourite films: Anchorman, Waynes World, Dewey Cox: Walk Hard, Step Brothers.
Favourite Actress: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mike Myers 
Favourite magazine: NME, Kerrang! The Wire


After looking at my draft I asked Katie if she would be interested in buying my magazine and this is what she said: 'Well it has a bunch of decent bands, and I like the red, black and white colour scheme. I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay as much as £5 for it though so maybe bring the price down slightly? Other than that I'd most certainly buy it"

Possible magazine title names

I looked through my list of music and at the song names to get inspiration for a title. I liked two Guns N Roses songs called 'Attitude' and 'Break Down'

I also thought of the colloquilism 'What Ever' as it reflects on the whole rock and roll attitude.

The last title I thought of was 'Electriff' as this combines the words electric and riff.

To conclude the four titles I have are 'Attitude' 'Break Down' 'What Ever' 'Electriff'

Pitch

Luke’s Pitch

Reversing gender stereotypes

I thought in terms of graphology, for my magazine I could reverse the stereotypical representations of genders. I will do this by having the female holding an electric guitar, dressed in in black and leather at the foreground. She will also be wearing Slash's top hat which is designed for males; I got this idea from the music video to Beautiful Dangerous where Fergie wears Slash's top hat. Furthermore the male model for my magazine will be in the background so they appear smaller, and they will be holding a tray with a microphone on. The male will be wearing ripped black or red jeans and a tshirt which doesn't fit. I will develop this idea further avoiding making the image seem sexist as that is not my intention.

Star Wars

I was looking through my old films and found the Star Wars films and thought it may be a good idea to incorporate a Sci-Fi theme into my magazine; neon fonts, bright colours and light sabres etc. I found an example which shows the Sci-Fi theme.
I like this because it is very bright and would be different to an ordinary music magazine.
I don't like this because it doesn't give connotations of music or the representations of music, it makes the audience think more of games and films.
I will most likely not use this for my magazine however I will put it into consideration.

Slash

Slash is a very influential character to include in my magazine. This is because he would make the magazine very "cool" because he has is own style which is very rock and roll. If I was to include Slash's style in my magazine then I would use his costume which normally consists of leather jackets/trousers, sunglasses, and the classic top hat which he wears. There are also other features which I could use to represent Slash which are nose piercings and big bushy hair. This is Slash's classic style (Below-Right)

My favourite pieces of work from Slash are mainly his material from his former band Guns N Roses. I really enjoy his starting riff and end solo from Sweet Child O Mine, I like his version of the Godfather theme tune and also November Rain.