P1- Proposal

Format: Magazine I am going to create a Magazine to challenge whether Grassroots football is still relevant to those in the community, finding out if people still attend training sessions and whether the teams get any support from those who live in the area.

Working Title: Off The Bar The title will have a bold and simple design (most likely white with a black boarder) as I hope the simplicity will add professionalism to the design. My slug will be "Off The Bar" as it is a commonly used term used in football (the subject of the magazine), often used in exciting circumstances (connotes fun and excitement). This will be the masthead on the front cover.

Genre: Grassroots Football It adds more of a personal feel to football magazines as it focuses on the local area rather than the national and sometimes global scale that competition such as Match of the Day Magazine or FourFourTwo provide. Grassroots meets the requirement of community as the programme is all about getting more people involved in sport, more specifically football. I will be focusing on local football, allowing me to ask people that I know about the subject and relate it to the community around myself.

Content: My magazine will have an article based upon an interview with someone that has spent a long time being involved with local, Grassroots football. The interview will most likely be the body copy of the article. Alongside the article, I will have an image/images that are relevant to the content of the article. This is so the image doesn’t look out of place. The main body of the article will be placed on the right hand side of the double page spread. To draw the reader into the article, I will use a pull quote of something that has been said in the interview in order to give them an idea of what the interview and the article may be like. To use this effectively, the pull quote will be one of the potentially most entertaining parts of the interview.

Style or Approach: The main colour of the magazines front cover will be green, as I plan on having an image of a football pitch, to imply to the reader that it is a football magazine upon their first look. The colour green connotes nature, this implies going outside and being active, which is recently become a concern of parents, that their children are not going outside ad being active enough. This could encourage sales of the magazine as parents believe it could spark an interest in exercise, and more specifically football. I will be using Photoshop to create my magazines aesthetic as I believe it’s the most suitable software for the job. This is because of the simple layer and free transform features that will allow me to position the components of each page to where I want them to be. Photoshop will also allow me to add effects that add to the aesthetic of the magazine.

Audience: My magazine is targeted at any age, but more specifically millennials. The gender of my main target audience will be men as within the proximity of the location the magazine will be released in, mostly men play local football, with female teams being quite rare in the area. No ethnicities will be chosen specifically as the article should be trying to promote inclusion. The magazine will be fairly cheap so that the spending power of the audience is not too much of a worry. The area in which it will be released (Maghull/Lydiate), this is a mostly rural that has a fairly average incomes throughout (excluding those that earn under and over the average, as these people obviously exist).

Length: I intend to create a front cover and a double paged spread. It will be A4 in size as this is most common in magazines and will contain an article of around 600 words. The article will not be too long and most likely consist of small paragraphs as the way news is consumed has changed as we have become more technological, meaning quicker, easier to read/scan through articles are more appealing.

Frequency: My magazine will be a one-time release as it will motivate me to create the highest quality of magazine possible, as there is only one issue to prove that I can create a magazine on this subject and of a real quality.