Friday, 5 November 2010

Publication Plan

Title: Noise
Positioning statement: The loudest music Magazine around
Frequency of publication: Weekly                        
Price: £1.99
Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Internet, Music gigs, Instrument shops

Rationale: The Magazine gives an insight of Bands that Fans don’t have access to. Interviews will be included regularly and breaking news and gossip about Album Release dates, Tour dates, etc.


Style: As the Genre is Indie/Rock the vocabulary will be basic and an irrelevant style. The magazine spreads across a wide audience of music from Punk Rock too Electronic Indie.

Regular content
-      Editors letter

-      Gig Reviews of the past week,  Famous and Upcoming bands

-      Instruments, latest releases of Guitars, Drums Basses, Amps etc

-      Top 20 Songs and Top 10 Albums of the week, voted by the Fans
-      Upcoming Bands page, a page dedicated to upcoming bands looking for exposure

-      Interview with a recognised band

-      Bono’s weekly column (ColumnBono)

-      Q’n’a the drummer, each week Noise asks Drummers from certain bands, questions about various topics. (this week Bombay bicycle club answers questions)

-      Touring a Venue. This week Noise, and explores the sound, atmosphere, of the echo arena and rates the Venue out of 5 stars.

-       Gigs page, contains information about new released tours

-       Music Quiz, crosswords etc.

-       Fan Mail

-      Concert rewind, each week Noise chooses Kasabian at Wembley

-      Festival update, each week Noise takes a look at how a certain festival is getting ready for the summer (What bands are playing, where its going to be held, new ideas etc) this week we see how Reading and Leeds are getting on preparing for this summer

-      Competition, each week Noise gives readers the chance to win a prize

-      Content of next week

 

 

Feature content
-      An Easy step-by-step Guide to learn the basics in Bass Guitar

-      Babyshambles interview, Pete Doherty and his boys drop in for a chat

-      Top 10 Worst albums of the year, Noise takes a look at the top 10 worst albums released in 2010

-      Poster of Stereophonics

-      Miles Kane talks about everything music, and about his favourite football team

-      Win two tickets to see Kings of Leon with V.I.P passes, at Lancashire cricket ground, a great opportunity to meet Caleb and the band

-       A Rewind Article on The Kinks

-      The best Soloist of all time, Noise takes a look at the best soloists of all time and gives you the reader a chance to vote for your best soloist

-      Mumford and sons, We take a look of the sudden rise of Mumford and sons over the past 12 months, and takes a look at the future for them

-      Big arenas or small venues? What’s best to play at?, for performers and spectators, we ask a range of various people, well known and not so well known their opinion
-      Tribute band interview- As a special feature Noise interviews one of the best Tribute bands around, Coldplayer, as good as the real band

 
House style
Cover lines- Minion Pro Cond and Minion Pro Med
Headlines- Minion Pro Cond
Standfirst- Minion Pro SmBd
Captions- The noise of Rock and Indie Music
Features first paragraph- Drop Capital in Minion pro
News first Paragraph- First few lines in Bold
Body text- Minion pro
Colour scheme- Red, Black, and white

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