Locations, Props and Costumes.

On the front cover of my magazine i plan to have one model (Billy/Adam) posing in a raining or snowing scenario, weather dependant. This ties in with the month of december/January/February. Hopefully, it will be in a field, or empty road at night, to connote simple themes like lots of Jazz magazines do.  One of these two example scenarios would suit my magazine perfectly.

In relevance to props and costumes, i would prefer my front cover models to be wearing simple t shirt and trousers, but bare foot. I am hoping to incorperate adams range of guitars and drums into the theme as well, in both contents page and front cover.

Potential Danger	Potential Outcomes	Actions to prevent danger	Further comments
Rain	Slipping over	Wellies and removal when sitting down
Mud	Slipping over	Wellies and removal when sitting down
Road	Ran Over	Taking photos at night when there is a lot less chance of cars, and using a remote street rather than a main road.

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Performers and Casting

Where	Who	Why ?
Double Page Spread /Contents	Adam Paintin	Adam is a perfect model for a Jazz magazine as his overall style connotes a retro yet simple theme that apply to this specific genre.
Front Cover	Billy Francis	Billy is another fantastic model who has a high musical interest, and also again has a retro yet naturalist style that are highly applicable to the genre.
Front Cover	Mike Bhatt	Mike is an older model, who would be perfect for the main interview as he has a high interest in music, as well as song writing.
Double Page Spread	Sam Parker	Sam has an individualistic look about him, that relates to his potential musical style, that this magazine primarily focuses on.

Target Audience

To research my target audience, I have asked a select number of people, who have an interest within the Jazz genre, a series of questions as to what they would prefer in a magazine, and which specific details they are interested in. I asked :
1) Which colours do you think would be appropriate to use within a Jazz magazine (lots of colours/a limited amount)


2)Would you prefer a layout to be dominated by text, images, or a mix of both ?

3)What sort of things would you like to find, within a magazine ? (i.e -  reviews, interviews, merchandise etc )

4)Which do you think suits the genre more - a simplistic layout, focusing only a couple of things but in detail, or would you prefer a busy layout, with lots of things catching your attention, but with less detail ?

5) Do you think that Jazz artists themselves, should decide on what they produce, or should the labels and companies themselves decide ?

After asking 5 participants, i can conclude that in relation to
Q1) - ALL participants said that they would prefer a limited number rather than lots of colours. They gave examples such as  black and white, and subtle blues and greens.
Q2) Participants said that they were more interested in the actual content, and therefore would prefer a double page spread primarily dominated by text, but also felt that one or two images had to be used to vary the layout.
Q3) Participants said that they would like to find interviews and reviews of albums within the magazine, with also some mention of less well known artists, to enable readers to vary their listening experience.
Q4) Majority of participants felt that a simplistic layout was more suited to the genre, rather than a busy one, as consumers of the magazine preferred more detail on a couple of main things, rather than little detail on a lot of things.
Q5) ALL participants felt that music artists themselves should decide on what they produce, as they felt that the genre was about doing what the artists feels the audience like, rather than the company or label.