Front cover and contents page drawn out rough plan

Initial pictures

These are my initial 70 pictures, I will analyse these pictures and then filter them in order to get 3/4 pictures that I like and that fit my genre and ideas. 

Initial name ideas

Possible magazine names
My music genre is Indie-rock music 

• Sync (as in sync music onto a device, trying to show that indie is a popular genre at the moment and is being synced onto a lot of peoples iPods, also links to the idea of the electric sound that indie is ) 
• Sik beatz (an urban freestyle name to attract a younger audience)
• Take it back (linking to a more classic indie style of music)
• Slowmo 
• Street ( to incorporate the idea of where indie music started in terms of the street busking type performers )
• ESRR (eat sleep rave repeat)
• Smash it ( trying to incorporate the idea of the lifestyle that indie performers live )
• Dynamite ( explosive like indie music can be )
• Volts (or volt) 
• Chart ( because indie music is currently dominating the charts )

After I came to the decision to have this list of ten names as my shortlist I then decided to form a series of data collection sheets which I went round to a series of people in my year group and the year above (the age category which my magazine will be most likely targeting) in order to get a primary source of data to help me with my decision. One example of my data collection is this tally chart that I went around my common room with trying to target people of my target audience and out of the thirty people who replied to this tally these are the results.

These results quite clearly show that Sync was the top voted magazine name throughout this data collection and this was consistent throughout this process with the large majority of the participants choosing Sync as their favourite and most suitable name. Therefore after much consideration I have chosen to use the name Sync as not only did I believe it was moist suitable in my own opinion  but also my data collection research gave me a primary source of back up to suggest that this name would be the most suitable for my magazine style and target audience which are the objectives that I am looking at achieving with my name.