Location Planning

I have chosen my location to just be at my house. I have used a blank screen for my photo shoot as it looks more professional, and I will be saying that I have interviewed my artist at one of her photo shoots. I have chosen this location because it would be much more professional than doing it outdoors or anywhere else.

Equipment, costumes and props for my photo shoot

Equipment 
For my photo shoot I will take my photographs with my DSLR Nikon D3200 camera with flash and I will have a blank white wall so my model can stand in front of it making her the main focus. I will use photoshop to edit my photographs before forming my magazine.

Costumes
My model will be wearing the same costume throughout the photo shoot. My model will be wearing a tartan dress, tights, PVC Doc Marten boots and some dark make-up e.g. lipstick and mascara.

Props

For my props I will have an acoustic guitar and an unlit cigarette. 

Content page design

Design of double page spread

Typography

I have used the website dafont.com to try and see which types of fonts I would like to use as my logo for my magazine. The left hand side are more funky than the ones towards the right, mostly music magazines have quite a basic font for their logo. Magazines like Q and NME have just a simple bold font. I think these simple fonts are quite effective because they don't require to be right in your face, as they mainly want to promote the artists on the cover, and readers usually buy magazines because their favourite bands/artists are on the cover. I have chosen to use the colour black as it is relevant the genre of the music that will be in my magazine. My favourite fonts are probably the ones in the middle and on the right.

After playing around with which fonts I would like to use I have chosen three of my favourite fonts to start creating my logo. I have put a red rectangular background because magazines like Q and NME use them which makes them very effective but simple, I also thought it would make the logo stand out more.  I have finally concluded that my chosen logo for the magazine will be the middle one. I think that it's not as basic as the other two but isn't too irrelevant for my magazine. Inside my magazine I will use a range of different fonts and sizes to show variety.Also I will name my magazine RHM (Red Hot Music) so I will include the name 'Red Hot Music' underneath the abreviation to make it clear to the reader what the magazine is called.

I have researched on DaFont fonts for my artists name on the front cover. I got inspiration to make the font curly from Q's magazine December issue. As I was researching I have concluded that these three fonts are the fonts I have liked the most.

Between these three fonts I have chosen two that I like the best; the one on the left and the middle one. These two fonts work well on where I would like to place the font on my front cover.

I have researched on DaFont which fonts I would like to use as my titles for my cover stories. The three fonts I liked the most are the ones on the left hand side. The font I will more likely use for my cover story titles is the top left font. I have added more fonts to show a variety of different fonts onto my magazine.

Readers profile

The people who will be reading my magazine will have to listen to the genre Indie Rock. They would be similar readers to NME, the target audience is adolescents and adults. My target audience would also be a mixture of both males and females. Although I've looked at magazines such as Q and NME and they both include advertisements which are mainly for males (male perfume adverts) but they also advertise other products which females could also own. These magazines mainly talk about music, which doesn't really matter what gender reads it. My own magazine articles won't be as sophisticated as Q magazine, but the target audience are mainly going to be more mature people. The demographic audience of my magazine would be in category E because the magazine is mainly targeted at students and young adults.

Representation of males and females in Indie Rock

 The genre Indie Rock mainly consists of male artists who are mainly in bands such as Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines, The Neighbourhood, Two Door Cinema Club, Kasabian and Foals. There are also male artists who aren't in bands such as Jake Bugg and Miles Kane. Although there are mainly males there are also female artists such as Gemma Hayes, Lana Del Rey, Laura Marling and Emily Haines. But there are also female artists in bands such as Nanna Brydis Hilmarsdottir (Of Monsters & Men), Zooey Deschanel (She & Him), Elizabeth Mitchell, Karla Schickele, Jean Cook, Ruth Keating (Ida), Elena Tonra (Daughter) and Hannah Reid (London Grammar).
Majority of the Indie Rock audience is male, but there are also female fans of Indie Rock music. Their audiences are also over the age of 16 as mostly Indie Rock bands have their audience in mosh pits during their shows, most of the people participating in the mosh pits are male.
Males and females in Indie Rock are mainly presenting their music, not trying to show their sexuality like Pop Music would. Artist from this genre don't really appear in the charts but they still do have quite a wide range audience for example Arctic Monkeys are gradually becoming the biggest band in Britain. The females in Indie Rock do not show their sexuality as much as females in Pop Music but they do show some such as Lana Del Rey. Usually both males and females in this genre are photographed with cigarettes. This shows that if the audience were younger they'd also want to smoke as they are very impressionable, but as their audience is older they will understand that they don't have to do everything their favourite artist does. Both genders style is very important, they both wear very fashionable clothing. Females style is mainly Hippie Chic, Eclectic, Vintage, Bohemian and Hipster. Males usually wear skinny jeans (black), tops/shirts, vans or converse or beanies too. Males style can be quite Hipster and Vintage.

                     Male representation      

Female representation