Name Ideas

Before any creating of the magazine cover itself, I did a bit of research about magazine names. From the magazines that I looked at -Q, NME, Kerrang!, VIBE, UNCUT & MOJO- I noticed that they were all short words that could be easily remembered. The short and snappy name is something that I wanted to follow as a convention for my magazine. I initially came up with 5 potential names for my front cover with a favourite in mind before asking people to vote on which name they preferred. Here are the 5 names;

• Sound 7
• Static 4
• Defused 3
• Deluge 4
• Inside 2

I asked 20 people in my target audience which is 16-24 year olds and the results are next to the names of the magazine. As stated above, before I asked my target audience to vote on the name they thought was best, I had a name which I wanted most on the front of my magazine. That name is 'sound' and as you can see, it also had the most amount of votes.

I am focusing on POP/R&B music and decided that after researching different magazines, I wanted a simple yet effective cover name. I wanted this because there are very limited magazines with long winded names on the front, the vast majority have initials which stand for something, or simply have four or five letters in them. After thinking, I typed 'pop music' into a Internet search engine, and one of the words on the findings was 'sound'. I wanted to use this name as it could be interpreted in two different ways;

1. Sound as in, music makes a sound/you can hear a sound;
2. Sound as in 'that is a sound idea', also a way of saying something is good, i.e. that song artist is sound.