POP MUSIC BRAINSTORM

So that I could have a little clearer a view of the kind of features I wanted for my magazine cover and contents page, I decided to do a brainstorm of all the different sections!

I came up with:

COVER:

• Photograph must be attractive and relevant
• colours bright and eye catching
• enough information on it to inform but not overwhelm the reader
• varied information so that a wider audience can be reached
• be able to persuade readers to buy

CONVENTIONS:

• Bar code on cover
• no swear words
• about 100 pages
• appropriate adverts
• sensible/affordable price for young teens

LANGUAGE:

• Young but not patronising language
• use of colloquial language, eg use of girly terms: 'cute'

CONTENT (FOR CONTENTS PAGE):

• articles on admirable celebs eg Cheryl Cole, Beyonce. (ones without bad reputations and ones that mums would approve of their daughters reading about)
• music tips/singing tips
• page on a boyband/girlband
• page on cover band/artist
• page on upcoming festivals
• reviews on music
• celebrity news
• new bands page and reviews
• page on history of an artist
• facts or tips on each or every other page of the magazine

PHOTOS:

• Need to include something musical, eg guitar, microphone, drumsticks, piano, etc
• must look professional, so good quality camera is needed
• need to be girly, so have girly colours and ideas interpreted in. (pink, purple, bubbles, flowers)

MAGAZINE NAME:

• People of pop
• sugar pop
• love pop
• startime
• startune
• popalicious
• spicypop
• QT (cutie)
• pop party
• pop world

COVER BAND NAME:

• Contentment
• Dreamers
• flyaways
• runaways
• wildflies
• wilderness
• birdies

The brainstorm has really helped me come to a conclusion about the features I would like.

Two of the main decisions I have made are that I would like to call the magazine 'SUGARPOP' and the cover band name 'WILDFLIES'. The reason behind my decision to name the magazine sugarpop is that it is something that hasn't been used before, yet it's girly, clearly related to music due to 'pop' being in the name, and it's easy to read which means that younger audiences will like it. My choice of the name wildflies to be the band name is due to it sounding really fresh, innocent and free, which is what I feel the young girls would naturally be inspired by at their ages.