Planning Production

Front cover image(s):
My front cover image will be a female artist with a plain background. It will be direct address and the main article will be about the artist’s new album that she is releasing.
Coverlines:
- Ed Sheeran – Lego, Guitars and Touring.
- Backstage Pass – V Festival Weston Park
- Snow Patrol – The Empire is growing
- Florence and the Machine –Exclusive
- The Wombats – From Liverpool to the Big Apple
- Lauren – Breakthrough artist of 2011
- The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock n Roll

Contents Page (features):
- Ed Sheeran – Lego, guitars and touring. Rupert Grint and new album ’+’
- Florence and the machine interview
- Kaiser Chiefs – Predicting riots since 2005
- V Fesival – Review of one of this year’s headliners Rihanna
- Snow Patrol – The empire is growing
- You Me At Six - On festivals, rivalry and new song ‘Loverboy’
- Essential 50 - 50 top tracks that are a must have download this month
- Uncut – Musicians at their most revealing
- Strum and bass –This month’s best guitarists voted by you
- The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock n roll
- The Wombats – From Liverpool to the Big Apple
- Top 20 unsigned bands
- 20 years in the industry – Manic street preachers reveal all
- Coldplay – Myloxyloto
- Lauren – Female breakthrough artist of 2011


Regulars:

- Reviews (reviews carried out by other artists and bands)
- Access all areas (backstage photos and interviews from a variety of festivals and gigs
- Welcome to my world (a personal interview with a different indie musician every month)
- Gig guides
- Talk to AIM (readers letters)
- New Artists
- AIM Questions and answers
- Alex Turners monthly column (the indie hot’s and not’s for this month)
- Kill time! (competitions and puzzles)
- Free gifts e.g. CDs, posters and merchandise
- New albums
- A-Z - Best Indie songs in alphabetical order

Images for contents page:

- Contents Main image to anchor with front cover main image
- Festival pictures – Crowd
- Pictures of guitar
- Ed Sheeran
Article for Double Page Spread
Review of the headlining artists and bands from V festival 2011 at Weston Park, Staffordshire
Photographs
- Large main image
- Will bleed across the page
- Image of one of the headlining artists
- Other images of other smaller acts