Initial design ideas

My magazine will represent the Indie music genre, and I will either photograph an individual person or group of people as a representation of an Indie artist or band. It will cover a wide range of relevant content and will engage with the audience by encouraging them to go on social media to see sneak peeks/behind the scene content, as well as offering them prizes such as free concert tickets or merchandise.

The 3 main title ideas i was considering were 'Now Indie', 'Indie Now' and 'Indie Weekly'. The title i choose will all be in capital letters to emphasise the text and to follow genre conventions. My survey results showed me that Now Indie was the most popular option, so this is the title I may choose.This is also the title I think will suit my magazine the most, because it tells my audience the genre of my magazine and it also shows them that it is modern, and therefore more relevant to today.

Depending on whether I use one individual person or a group of people, my 3 ideas for a main image is either a close up of an individual person, and either a medium or long shot of a group of people representing an Indie band. I would only use a close up because this is following typical genre conventions, and I would use different camera angles for a group as experimentation, and afterwards I would evaluate the effectiveness of each shot.

After studying many Indie music magazine covers, this showed me that typical magazine cover lines are not commonly used for Indie music magazines. For example in almost every pop magazine similar titles are used for every cover, such as "Will Harry ask you out?", "Would JLS date you?" and "What goes your crush really think of you?" etc. This however is not the case with Indie music magazines, as it tends to be only the names of bands or artists that appear on different front covers. This is why I have decided to use a variation of both Indie solo artists and bands, and i will ensure that they are modern, well known ones that my audience should be familiar with. The musicians I was thinking of using are:Arctic Monkeys (Although the younger members of my audience may not be familiar with most of their music, it is highly possible that they will be able to recognise at least one of their songs), Muse, Ellie Goulding and ................. The results from my survey showed that the majority of my audience prefer both Indie music solo artists and bands.