Final Magazine Proposal

In my final magazine proposal I have concluded that my magazine will be called Grime4Life and the genre of my magazine will be a mainstream magazine based on the music genre known more commonly in the East London as grime. I have chosen this genre of music because it is not well known in all areas of the world so it is a unique magazine with a rather unique and unknown music genre which sets it apart from all the other mediocre magazines already out there.

My target audience for my magazine will be youths aged 15 to 21 both male and female who can afford magazines that have quality well founded information within the pages. Also my target audiences overall socioeconomic place in society will generally be middle and lower classed people because they  are most likely to already be associated with grime music because of their place and class being so close to the grime genres heart.

I have also concluded that my magazine will be published and released to the public monthly. This is because it gives me enough time to gather enough information, facts and stories about artists and grime music so when I do publish my magazine it will have a good amount of information and text for my readers to enjoy. Also this lengthy time period also gives fans of my magazine something to expect and wait for so my magazine readers will wait anxiously for the next issue each month allowing me to keep my current readers who may also refer my magazine to their friends, peers and colleagues.

I have decided to create my magazine because the grime genre of music is not well known throughout the United Kingdom and there are few magazines out there that even have grime content within them, because of this I saw a gap in the market for a music magazine centred all on grime music, artists and news. I also decided to create this magazine because grime music also represents the lower and middle class of our society and I believe these classes are represented through grime music and deserve to have themselves recognized by the upper class and the rest of the world through any type of media.

In my music magazine I will include a variety of articles and content in order to ensure my readers remain interested in reading my magazine. In my magazine I have decided to include articles about existing and famous grime artists such as JME and solo 45. I have also decided to include competitions in my magazines in order to attract readers and give them a chance to win prizes such as gig tickets. I will also include freebies in my magazines which will also entice readers to read my magazine for the promise of free goods. I will also include double page articles in magazine which hold detailed information about topics that concern grime. Finally I will include a lot of buzzwords, title block, anchorage text, puffs and images for my magazines front cover in order to make my magazine look friendly and formidable for readers to see when they pass a magazine stand.

The ideologies that my magazine will promote will be that grime music is not as bad as it may sound by its name because when people hear the word grime they automatically imagine disgusting or filthy but my magazine will change that and it will change the opinion the upper class has on the lower class and middle class families who are most associated with grime music and are judged in the same way as this genre of music.

I will use a variety of techniques to attract readers to my first issue. I will use techniques such as buzz words and anchorage text the buzz words will attract people to my front cover with words like WIN and FREE in big title block in order to get people’s attention with a chance to obtain free goods, whereas the anchorage text will give information about different grime artists and stories within the magazine which may interest people when they look at the front cover.

I shall also use techniques such as the use of title block and images to attract readers to my first issue. The title block I will use will be large and brightly coloured this will attract people to the magazine when they see it because it is easily noticed and may lead to readers picking up the magazine via the interest in the bright colors and large font. While the use of images will attract readers because they may see artists on the front cover that they know or enjoy so this may soon lead to them buying the magazine in order to see if there is an article or section about that particular artist within the magazine itself. Below is a character profile of a typical buyer of my magazine.

-         Name: Jerome Holder

-         Age: 16

-         Occupation:  Student

-         Interests/Hobbies: Listening to music, playing Xbox 360, surfing the internet and watching television.
- Ideologies: Not all people that are lower or middle class are bad people no matter how they appear in the news or how the police portray them.