Props and Costume ideas

Props that I would use

Since there are few props on display on the front cover of magazines that are in my genre, I decided that I would only add necessary ones. This is because the main aim of the front cover in guitar music magazines is to generate focus on the artist. Ideally what I would want to do is use many guitars, particularly one along the lines of the one above, as that shows the housestyle of red, white and blue. A guitar that helps mimic my housestyle, I believe, would make my magazine stand out more because there is more of a focus on the colours used. Similar to how established magazines use clothes to mimic the housestyle of a particular issue. 



Costuming

I would want my artists to have steryeotypes of an indie person, including dressing like one. Steryeotypically, 'indie boys' would wear flannel shirts, converse/Vans and skinny jeans. This would help to relate to my target audience who would wear similar clothes and would know that my magazine is aimed at them. These are all generally clothes that most guitar bands wear and my target audience are people who try to emulate them though what they wear because they aspire to be like them.