24th November – 28th November

This week we began our publication plan, to begin setting ideas on our music magazines.
Publication plan
Title: “ AMPLIFY ”
Positioning Statement: “Can YOU handle the noise?”
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Price: £3.20
Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Music stores, gigs, festivals, online, subscription.
Rationale: The magazine will consist of music from the metal genre only, including unsigned bands as well as well known bands. The magazine will be original, releasing exclusive information from big record label companies. All the latest news will be included and it will consist of unseen photographs.
Style: The magazine will be informal with use of colloquial language. It will be dominated by images and the majority of text will be to inform or get fans involved. Simple syntax and vocabulary will be used as the target audience is fairly young.
Regular content
Fan page (fan’s letters)
Album reviews
What do YOU think?
Editor’s letter
Free band and artist posters
- Competitions
- Gig reviews
- News
- Unsigned band of the month
- Crazy Bass man column
- Gig updates
Feature articles
Exclusive line-up for Download festival ‘09
The Devil wears Prada
Interview with Ferret Music
Carcass – How we made it
Lacuna Coil band review over the years
- This or the Apocalypse
How Funeral for a friend became famous
Chimaira
A blast from the past with the Damned
Behind the scenes at MEN
Be a part of the unsigned bands campaign
Vote on years best drummer
Shades of Dusk
Linkin Park in the making
House Style
Cover lines: Tahoma
Headlines: Rockwell Extra Bold
Stand first: Rockwell 14pt (By-line included)
Captions: Arial 8pt
Features first paragraph: Drop capital Rockwell Extra Bold all in CAPITALS 4 lines deep.
Body text: Times New Roman 11pt
Colour scheme: Black, Blue and Purple.