Production Plan

Title: SMASH

Positioning Statement: By Us, For You

Frequency of Publication: Monthly

Price: £3.50

Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarket and Music shops

Rationale: This magazine is all about new indie music and all of the gigs. We will have interviews with the best indie bands and singers and you can be the first one to read it.

Style: The style of the magazine is funny and will include 'puns' and wordplay, informal as it’s for younger people, short paragraphs and slang. The magazine will contain a lot of information about indie bands.

Regular content:

 Interviews,

Photos of the week

Gigs,

Posters,

Monthly column

Fan mail

Album review

Top 10 music hits of all time

Indie phrases

New artists

 

Feature content:

Who’s the best band or singer?

Ed Sheeran- – Lego house

Arctic Monkeys – are back!

Do you know all of your bands?

Top 50 Indie songs of all time

The killers – on the loose

Dead Kings and Queens of Indie

Paramore - Timeout

Rockers                        

Coldplay- like you’ve never seen them

The black keys – On the comeback trail

Festivals – edge of glory

Kate Nash – how she makes her songs fresh and clean

My life story – get to know Alex Turner and how he handled the bands split

 

 

House style:

Cover lines: Arno Pro Smbd and bold

Headlines: Footlight MT Light

Stand first: Footlight MT Light Bold italics 14pt

Captions: Footlight MT Light italics 12pt

Features first paragraph: Footlight MT Light italics, 3 lines deep, and first word in capitals.

News first paragraph: first three words in bold italics capitals

Body text: Calibri (Body) 11pt

Colour scheme: Pink, Blue, Green, and white.