Initial Treatment

The Front cover will be a large image of my featured band and they will be dressed to present their genre of music. They will be dressed in purple and black clothes because of the colour scheme of the magazine which will be purple and turquoise. I am going to use more image than text because from my research i have found out that younger people who are into the rock genre respond better to more of an image than more text. I am going to make the text that is on the cover large and catchy so that it will catch peoples eyes, and the text in the contents simple, i will do the same with the double page spread but make it more detailed, and do it about something that will interest my target audience.

I will personally design the text to match the genre of my magazine and i will make it look kind of eroded and kind of distorted.
I have chose the name "Broken record" for my magazine because the word record tells the audience straight away that it is to do with music, and the word broken gives a eroded sense, that the music isn't normal music or that it is not straight. I think this gives a perfect taster for my magazine interior.

The layout of my front cover will be the name at the top in a larger font than the rest of the page. The dominant image will take up the majority of the page and it will be themed in a specific colour. At the bottom, i will have smaller pictures that will show somemore features in my magazine such as smaller articles or even posters.

The contents page will have pictures all around it of different bands and artists. I am going to do this by dressing my models up in different types of clothing. This is to show the variation of artists my magazine has in it. It will also appeal to my target audience because according to my focus group and questionnaare, people of a younger age who are into rock music prefer picture to text. The contents however will be aligned in the center of the page next to the pictures. I am then going to do a mini article on another band which will be to draw the reader into the magazine abit more. The text for the contents and the mini article will be very small. This could give the reader a choice, for instance they do not have to read it but they can if they want to. As some people may enjoy reading text.

For my double page spread I am going to do an interview on a new upcoming band called "before last night", it will be about how they are coping on their road to success. The images on the double page spread will be images taken in the studio. I am also going to use some pictures that have been taken out and about. This could show that they are outgoing. The colour themes are going to mostly withhold purple, but i would like the double page spread to be quite colourful as there genre of music is a rather upbeat genre of music. The title of the article will be aligned at the top of the page and its going to take up about half of the page because i want it to be the 'main article' of the whole magazine and i want it to stand out. I will pull out quotes from the text and make them a bigger font to also draw people into the article.
On the right hand side i am going to do smaller reviews on other bands with smaller pictures of different artists. This will vary the page abit and keep the readers interested. It will also show that this particular section of the magazine is focused on new artists and if the main article is about an upcoming band then the whole magazine could be based on new bands.