Music magazine pitch

Your monthly music

Genre: the genre of my magazine is hip hop. I chose this genre because it relates to me, it is what I am interested in and get inspired by I feel like it is also a popular genre that many people enjoy to listen and read about.

Weekly price: I have chosen to sell my magazine weekly as I have aimed it at teenagers who would be able to buy it every week as they would want to find out the gossip as soon as they can, I've chosen to sell it £1:50 which i reckon is a reasonable price for teenagers.

Audience: my audience will be middle class people from the age of 13-20 year olds who are interested in listening to hip hop music, it aimed at both genders mainly because it doesn't have a specific gender to aim it at it is aimed at people who enjoy listening to hip hop. However the artist usually have concerts which are 16+ sometimes so this would be aimed at older people.

Audience profile: the audience I aiming my magazine at would be into new fast, loud music with a big beat and bass to it, gossip about the celebrities, concerts, signing from the artists, some people may want books of the history of how hip hop started and became so big, there will also be selections of clothes from the artist as the audience like to imitate the actions of what their idol does. My magazine contains a lot about the artists and gossip which is what they expect.

Name: I wanted my name to be original and four letters long. I chose the name BIVE I thought that this was short and snappy, majority of magazines are at the most four letters long as a title. I thought that four letters looks good in the layout and is the right amount of letters to cover the top of the magazine and still be clear.

House, style, font, colours: my colour scheme will be black, red and white I reckon that these three colours match very well and can make certain things stand out more than others. My title is bold so that it stands out and if I have a heading I have a shape behind it which makes it stand out more.

Double page spread: I have planned to have an interview with the band and get the inside gossip of why the bad broke up and about their personal life rather than hearing different types of stories, there will also be a picture of one of the band members meeting fans which is unseen, this will hopefully set the fans straight of what is happening to the both of them and if they are making anymore music together or solo.

Offers: There will be a poster in the inside as we'll as competitions for people to win signed t-shirts by both members of the band another competition would be to win a free cd signed by them.

Usp: This magazine is different to others because it is ahead with the gossip, it is the most up to date magazine.

By creating a magazine pitch it helped me decide what ideas I should use in my magazine and what it is going to be about, it taught me that planning makes things easier and that is vital.