1. MUSIC
MAGAZINE
DECONSTR
-UCTION
Sian Hayden

2. Magazine Genre
• I have decided to create a magazine with the
genre of ‘Charts and upcoming musicians’ I
feel this genre has a very wide target audience
because any gender and any age of person
may be interested in this music. Also if an
upcoming chart artist is a Reggae singer for
example people who normally would buy this
type of magazine and reggae lovers will buy
the magazine this month.

3. Shake Pulse
Tunes
Vibe
Insight
NAMES Sync
Major
Beat
Melody
GO
Base
Firstly I had to think of a name for my music magazine so I
brainstormed some ideas. I chose Sync.

4. WHY SYNC?
• I have chosen the name Sync because I think
that the name is original in the world of music
but relates well to the reading of exclusive
information of singers and stars.
• When I think of the word sync the things that
come to mind are when I am syncing music to
and MP3 or iPod. Also the name is short and
easy to remember.

5. MASTHEADS
These are my initial ideas for mastheads on the front
cover of my music magazine. I have chosen these colours
because I feel that they look modern and sophisticated as
the word sync is a technical term the colours and font
needed to be sheik.

6. • The colours I have used for these mastheads
are suited to both male and female which
widens the target audience for my magazine.
• Another idea for my mastheads are to have an
arrow in between the gap or the circle in the C
of Sync.

7. MAIN IMAGE
On the left is my image
without any cropping to
suite the cover. I
decided to flip the
image and then crop it
towards the face
because I feel that this
sort of image is mostly
found on magazines
and therefore would
make my magazine
I chose this image because
look more professional
I feel that it most suites
and like the others on
my genre and my design
the market at the
for the magazine as she
moment.
would be looking down at
her name.

8. FONTS
There are 3 fonts I have chosen to use
on my cover so that the magazine does
I have chosen these not look messy and it looks
fonts because they are sophisticated.
clear and eye-catching
towards the audience.
The purple on the right
is a pull quote from the
main article in the
magazine and the font
suites the artist and
the style of her music.

9. HOUSESTYLE AND MODE OF ADRESS
• The house style of my music magazine will be a
continuous swatch of colours being rich , dark
purple, light natural tones and grey. I feel these
colours suite both genders. I have chosen these
because the colours are contrasting against each
other and stand out.
• The mode of address I am going to give is an
informal language with a variety of ‘lingo’
depending on the genre of the music/ singer and
how they speak. For example I will write using
English slang for Ellie Goulding.