Contents

This is the contents page of the magazine. It features some of the main headlines surrounding the Iredia family, of which there is a special issue of them. There are also images of Jen and Ken next to their headlines.

Magazine Front Cover

This is my Magazine Front Cover for the magazine sOunD iQ. This is a special issue of the magazine which costs £2.50, as stated in the Publication Plan of the magazine. The main image is of my brother Ken Iredia, who is the rapper with the exclusive story as a puff which says "Ken Iredia on new album(Chronic), family and future plans. The bar code is on the bottom right-hand corner of the magazine. It contains the website address, the date and the price of the issue of the Magazine.
There is a Pug where it says "Win Tinie Tempah UK tour London 02 Academy VIP tickets" This is to entice the readers of the magazine as Tinie Tempah is an ever-rising star of the UK urban scene. The Album Reviews are of the Kaizer Chiefs, Rihanna, Beyonce and Kate Iredia on her return to the charts. There is a photo of Kate Iredia as well as Jennie Iredia, who is featuring on a double page spread article in the magazine issue.

This is the sOunD iQ magazine. It is based on Q magazine because it is a mixed magazine. It is called Sound IQ because it beleives that it has the best taste for different sorts of music and musicians. It will be a monthly magazine that costs £3.50 and also has special magazines mid-way through each month. I chose blue with some rough inky black to make it match the planet to make it look more international but the inky black to make it seem raw and more art like than other mixed mags, giving it a different image to the other mixed mags.

Analysis of Questionnaire

This is the questionnaie. I gave copies of this to various people from various groups and backgrounds. For the first question, I found that most people seemed to want a magazine with a wide range of musicians.

On the second question, most people were willing to pay between £2-£4 for a magazine, which is something that will come into serious thought when creating the first draft of my magazine.

On the third question, it was almost unanimous that people read magazines once a month.

The fourth and fifth questions were the most important for the decision of what style my magazine would be. The fourth question brought a wide divide of interests and so did the fifth question as well. This gave me the final push i needed to decide to do a mixed magazine to unite all these divides of interest togehter into one.

The sixth question was just to know if people go to any other places to buy their magazines other that local newsagents. Some people go to all lengths to buy their favourite magazines, including "2-hour long journeys" just to get their favourite magazine.

With my findings of a wide divide of interests, A mixed magazine seems by far the best choice for me to do.

Feature Q Magazine

This is the Q magazine, I chosen to use this as my inspiration for my magazine sOunD iQ. This is because Q magazine is a mixed mag. It has the main image of madonna, the "Queen of Pop" but also has bands like the Kaiser Chiefs, so it doesn't sway in any direction when it comes to its music style. Based on my Questionnaire, my magazine is going to be like the Q magazine.

                                                       Publication Plan

Title
The masthead title of my magazine will be called sOunD iQ

Positioning statement/selling line
The selling line of my magazine will be The Uk's Music Magazine I decided that this would be the selling line of the magazine because it goes with the magazine's boastful arrogance that we know what's best for the music scene in the Uk.

Frequency of Publication
This magazine will be published once every month, apart from the special issues that may come out in the middle of the month.

Price
Based on the questionnaire, people wanted a  once a month magazine, that cost from £2-£4. I have decided to make my magazine cost £3.50 with the special issues costing £2.50.

Distribution
The magazine will be distributed by IPC media. It will be distributed in local newsagents up to big-chain supermarkets.

Rationale
The magazine offers its own perspective on star musicians from various types of music.

Sytle

The magazine has a target audience for people who can enjoy various forms of music and like various artists.

Regular Content

The regular content of the magazine is the artist feature that appears on every issue. Also there are photo shoot pictures that are on show in the magazine in every issue aswell.

Feature content

Masthead idea

This is my idea for a magazine masthead. It is called Music Mania. This is a mainstream music-based magazine that has the target audience of mainstream music listeners. It is based on the Vibe magazine .I shaped the masthead to look sort of like a chocolate bar that you just can't enough of. This can also be used as a comparison to mainstream music which is filled with eye-candy. The masthead is bold and in your face like the mainstream artists.

Masthead Ideas for my music magazine front cover

These are some of the suggestions that I have chosen for my music magazine. There are 5 ideas.

Mass MAG:
I want this magazine to be targeted at a mainstream audience. I believer that the name is a very good notion to the target audience I am searching for. I decided the colour as gold because these are the most famous musicians, and I chose a red background to make the gold stand out more, much like these artists stand out in terms of the knowledge.

Music Village:
I wanted this to be based on a more instrumental musician audience. The sort of magazine that focuses on what the best of instruments are and also what bands are using a vast array of instruments. This magazine is targeted at the musician.

Musica Appello:
This is a style magazine, but with exclusively with musicians and singers on the covers and articles that focuses on musicians and singer's life stories or album reviews. This is targeted for an audience who like their fashion in musicians as well as their songs. I have decided to have the masthead in Italian as I though it would sound better than Music Appeal which is the name in English.

Sound IQ:
This is a magazine that focuses on genres like Punk, Emo, Heavy Metal, Rock and Alternative Rock. This is an arrogant magazine that believes that this is the best kind of sound. The Magazine Sound IQ suggests that the magazine is bragging that it is the only one with the right IQ for music and sound.

Classicals:
This is for the listener of Beethoven, Mozart and new classical composers all over the world. The masthead is Called Classicals because of the the "Classics" of songs that people say are the best songs, only the masthead Classicals suggests that this is the best kind of music and the best magazine of this genre of music.