Practice

1. VIBRANT VENUES

2. PURPOSES:
• Promote and advertise venues and festivals in
Hertfordshire.
• Educate artists from Hertfordshire about venues and
festivals that they can perform in.
• Promote artists that are playing in venues and festivals
from Hertfordshire.

3. STATEMENT OF NEEDS:
• Good venues, limited amount of artists performing.
• Lack of magazines talking about artists from Hertfordshire
performing.
• This means there’s a gap in the market.
• Main focus is Hertfordshire venues (my unique selling
point)

4. COMPETITION – MAGAZINE 1:
Festworld:
• Slight competitor.
• Talks about festivals across
England (location, food, outfit
ideas).
• People in Hertfordshire could
choose other festivals instead of
local ones.

5. COMPETITION – MAGAZINE 2:
London Lost Music Venues:
• Venues in London just north
of Hertfordshire.
• Could attract artists from
Hertfordshire.

6. COMPETITION – MAGAZINE 3:
Hertfordshire Life:
• Slight competitor.
• Doesn’t mention music.
• Areas in Hertfordshire for music.

7. FORM AND GENRE:
• Theme – music venues and festivals.
• Who’s playing, where, when and what genre of music.
• 50 pages (mix of photos and text).
• Produced every 4 Mondays.
• Cost - £4.99

8. CONTENT:
• Page details – titles, main images, text surrounding
images
• Text – laid out in columns, information about the
artist/venue, location.
• Font – “sans-serif” (text), “better together” (page titles and
subtitles),”musicalina” (headline), “blacklist” (masthead)

9. FONT STYLES:
Masthead: Headline:
Page Titles: Text:

10. MOOD BOARD:

11. PENCIL SKETCH PLANS:
Front Cover: Double-Page Spread:

12. COLOUR SCHEME EXAMPLES:
Venues: Artists:

13. TARGET AUDIENCE:
Primary Audience – boys and girls aged 14-35
Secondary Audience – music lovers in general
No age, gender or ethnicity restrictions as music is for everyone.

14. RESOURCES, PERSONNEL AND
BUDGET:
Resources:
•Laptops: £550 each
•Cameras: £150 each
•Tripods: £50 each
•Camera lenses: £300 each
•Camera batteries: £15 each
•Printers: £100 each
•SD cards: £35 each
Personnel:
•Photographer: £320 pw
•Writer: £290 pw
•Writing editor: £340 pw
•Photo editor: £340 pw
•Graphic designer: £300 pw
•Fact checker: £240 pw
•Model: £200 pw

15. DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING:
• Published and digital copy.
• Sold at local stores around Hertfordshire.
• Marketed on different forms of social media, print posters
and radio adverts.

16. PRODUCTION COMPANY:
• Standard limited guarantee.
• Profit made goes towards salaries of the team.
• Rewards hard work.

17. CONCLUSION:
• Magazine may be expensive.
• Limited competition.
• Good budget.

18. ANY QUESTIONS?