Font Research

Currently, the font that appeals best to my target audience is probably Accidental Presidency. It is neat, tidy and quite formal, even though I will be writing my double page spread informally to create a rapport with the reader, I want my font to look formal. Most of the fonts above would probably be sufficient but I believe that the Accidental Presidency has the most character. Also, I believe that using san serif makes the magazine look more professional and formal. A serif font can look tacky and take away the 'professional' look to my magazine. Accidental Presidency is a great san serif font to use because it is formal and easy to read.

Survey On what Font to use

Current Music Magazines Fonts

As shown above are very popular music magazines that are still being published. They all appear to be using red, white and yellow in their logos, except the Billboard logo which uses a blue inside the 'A' this all though is its unique selling point (UPS). Each of them are using either red, white and yellow, either all three, two or just using one of them colours on there own. These are all very successful magazines so it would be worth while using these colours in the logo of my music magazine.

Initial Ideas

Front Page

  

•  A big, bold company name.   
• Large and engrossing cover lines to cover appropriate areas of the magazine  
• A musician that appeals to the targeted group of my choice. 
•  Not too full on, must be dedicated spacing between text. 
•  A clear, crisp picture, suitable for the target audience.
• An effective and interactive slogan.
• A clean formatting of fonts and structure.
• Entising content

Contents

• Clear and effective formatting evident.
• A suitable amount of pages - not too little and not excessively too much.
• Understanding of the correct price in correspondance to how frequently the magazines are released.
• Make the main story stick out compared to the others.
• A suitable amount of pictures at a high quality.
• Use various fonts, but make sure they work effectively together, and make sure that they follow the same house style.
• Make sure that it is clear and understandable for the reader. 

Double Page Spread

• Make it broad and eye-catching.
• Use effective pull out quotes to catch the readers attention. 
• Look into what people want to read.
• Drops cap could be used, if used well.
• Make sure that if quotes are used, that they are powerful and relevant quotes.
• Structure this in a way that is easy to read and clear to understand for the reader.