Designing my Music Magazine.

I have been looking into what I would like to call my magazine, taking into consideration I am focusing on a music shop that also runs many other businesses such as tuition, instrument building and has many small bands I searched online to help me come up with a few to choose from, I found a website that randomly generates band names (http://www.bandnamemaker.com/) and used this to come up with some inputting the word music, here are some possible ideas:

-Music Invader

-Music Surface

-Music Beyond Force

Another thing I did was think about musical terminology which could also work as a title by looking good and sounding right/catchy to fit my magazine genre and design, I came up with the following:

-Bass

-Chord

-Music Key

-Score

-Tempo 

Knowing that I would be taking my photos and doing the interview fairly soon, I wanted to be ready to get straight to putting my front cover etc together as soon as I could so I sketched out designs of how I would like my cover, contents and double page spread to look like also thinking of the smaller details such as cover lines and where I would like things to be positioned, below are my photos of my drawn out designs:

FRONT COVER-

CONTENTS PAGE-

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD-

Having these plans will enable me to get straight into the designing process once I have my photos and interview, it will also show my progress should I decide to change any aspects of these design ideas during the process. 

Interview questions for my music magazine.

I have come up with with some questions that I would like to ask during the interview for my music shop magazine, these are a basis of what I will ask but some may change depending on their answers. The following are 23 questions I came up with: 

1) Name? Age? Come from?

2) How long have you had this business? (Do you remember the date?)

3) Address of shop? Where is it based and why did you decide to base it where you did?

4) Why did you decide to name the shop ‘String Salon’ and the tution side ‘Rainbow music’?

5) Why did you want to open up a music shop ad start doing music tuition?

6) How did this business start out?

7) Do you play/are you passionate about music and why?

8) What instruments do you play and when did you start playing? / When did you realise your love for music?

9) What do you do here at ‘Rainbow music’ other than the shop and music tuition?

10) What is the most popular area of ‘Rainbow music”?

11) How many staff do you have working for you?

12) Do you get along with all your staff and customers?

13) How busy do you get in the shop and other parts of ‘rainbow music’?

14) Tell me about the customers that come into the shop, do you have any regulars? Are they all friendly? What kind of age range do you have come in?

15) Tell me about the bands you have here at ‘Rainbow music’ and the people in them. How many bands altogether? Concerts/Gigs?

16) Do you enjoy your day to day life working with this business?

17) Does it ever get stressful? / Do you find it difficult to separate owning the business and your everyday life?

18) Have you made any friends through the business, staff or customers that you spend time with outside of work?

19) Any funny stories about the shop or working here?

20) How has the shop grown over the years?

21) How long do you see yourself having this business?

22) Any exciting upcoming plans?

23) How do you see this business in the future?

Having these questions ready before my interview helps to keep me organised and prepared. It also gives me the advantage of planning ahead for my double page spread and article.

Research for my magazine.

This week I am focusing on further research for my music magazine. As I have chosen to create a magazine based around a music shop instead of a band or artist I am going to research into magazines like this and how to photograph it for my front cover, contents and double page spread.

 I am also going to look into the music shop I will be visiting and find some information on that, along with emailing the owner to confirm the date of photoshoot and interview etc.

I looked at their website http://rainbow-music.co.uk and in their 'shop' section. I found out what they sell and what brands they stock along with a little information about them and where they are situated and the opening times of the store and some photos: 

 










After visiting their website I looked at their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/rainbowmusictuition/ . Here I could find some more information about the shop:





There were some more photos and even some videos of bands that they have playing some gigs:






Finally I found some reviews posted on their page that I can look at to gather information for when creating my magazine and an events page showing some events they have recently held:







From here I can message the owner of the shop to organise my interview and photoshoot of the shop itself. Using some of the things I found in my research I now have some basic information which i may be able to include within my magazine double page spread or elaborate on during the interview.