Magazine Publisher

The company who will publish my magazine would probably be a company like Conde Nast, I really like this company because they publish a lot of well known magazines like 'VOGUE', 'GQ', 'Vainty Fair' and 'LOVE'. They currently don't do a music magazine which is why I would think that my Magazine woud be a good addition to the current collection of magazines they publish. I would say that 6 of the 15 magazines they publish are mainly fashion based, which I think my magazine will go well with, binding music and fashion together will make it appeal to the audiences that would normally buy the fashion magazines, but also open up a new market for pop music lovers.

Pitch Feedback

I thought that my pitch went very well, I presented a 'Animoto' presentation pictures and ideas of what my magazine would be like. I chose the song 'Music' by Madonna as the background to the presentation, I thought I got my ideas across clear and concise, I put the artists which I would like to be in my magazine like Madonna, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga. There, right at the start you knew the feel of what kind of Music was going to be in the magazine. Then presentation moved onto the inpiration of Andy Warhol and his 'Pop Art' which I wanted to incorporate into the magazine. I wanted it to have an artistic edge to it instead of just being a plain music magazine, I thought that this would a good way of attracting to different audiences. In the pitch, I also showed that I the magazine to be Fashion forward but not focusing on the Fashion too much as it is a Music Magazine. But I thought that by making it just a bit Fashionable, it would make it more appealing to the younger audiences I am trying to attract.

Magazine Draft

Audience Profile

I would like to think that the people who would be interested in my Magazine would be fashion forward and interested in Music, Pop and Art. I wanted to incorporate these things into my Magazine because they are what teeangers are interested in. It may not be all of them, but I would think that at least one of the elements of the 3 would be one of the likes of an average teenger therefore I am not only targetting the people who like Pop Music as it s a Pop magazine, I am also targetting other people who have other interests other than Pop Music.

I see that the magazine will be unisex,targetting both sex making it young and modern. even though the magazine itself will be unisex, I would think that depending on each month and who is on the cover, that it would depend who would buy the magazine. For example, artists like Britney Spears and Ncki Minaj would generally be targetted towards girls, but on the other hand, boys would be interested in anything with a attractive woman on the cover which could bring them in to want and read the magazine. Then if I wanted to attract boys to the magazine, as boys don't stereotypically like Pop artists like Madonna or Britney Spears, I would try and incorporate an idea of having a band or an artist from a totally different genre and then having a artist or band from the Pop genre and collaborate them both on the cover and the spread. Hence, this will attract the girls who like Pop Music, and it would also attract to the boys that likes other artist's like Kanye and Kings Of Leon.

Artist Profile

Artist Name: Chanel Smith

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Clothing: Fashion Forward, Pop Chic, Birght Colours, Colour Blocking. Somtimes it gets toned down with just a classic black look.

Lifestyle: Fast past, Travelling, Promoting, Socializing.

Album: The Next Chapter - The new album is going to express the new era of her life, after a recent visit to rehab, and celebrating her 20th birthday back in September, she wants this album to tell the audience the new part of her life and what she has to look forward to.

Genre: She has chosen the 'Pop' genre to focus her music into because it is her favourite genre. She listens to a lot of Pop artists like Rihanna, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. Pop is just so versatile, you can recreate different sounds and make them more modern.

History: Chanel actually went to the Univesity of Arts in London, she studied Fashion PR but with 2 years of working in a Fashion PR Firm, she decided to take a new direction and focuse on her singing career. Singing has always been what she has wanted to do since she was the age of 11, her mother actually entered her into a local singing competition and she won. So from there on, singing was her ambition and she worked with vocal coaches to improve her singing.

Inspirations: She is inspired by artists like Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. All of them have created hits after hits and continue to make them. They know how to keep the audience intact and want to  listen to their music, she really likes the fact that Madonna started off as this little innocent girl singing about sex 'Like A Virgin' and then from then to now, she has totally changed herself and her sound. She collaborates with younger artists like Britney in 'Me Against The Music' and Justin Timberlake in '4 Minutes' to gather new younger fans which is what makes her such an inspirations.