I produced this mood board using pictures of existing magazines, that I found on the internet. This is important as it enables me to understand the layouts of magazine front covers so I can make mine better and it also helps me to use my personal preference to distinguish varying target audiences.

These are all the conventions and codes included in a music magazine. This includes the front cover, contents page and double-page spread. This is an important part of my research as it enables me to understand what NEEDS to be included when I come to making my own magazine, front cover, contents page and double-page spread.

READER PROFILE:

For the reader profile I will produce a fictional character of whom will resemble/represent my target audience. This means their occupation and interests will be a reflection of that of my target audience. The picture I have given to physically resemble my target audience is one off the internet and is not a person I know-or someone I have photographed.

I will analyse the demographics and psychographics of this person-in order to give myself a realistic example of a member of my target audience.

NAME: Emily Saunders

AGE: 19 years old.

OCCUPATIONAL STATUS:  Classical music student at the University of Surrey (in her second year)

WHERE DID YOU LIVE GROWING UP?  Detached seven bedroom house, in Sidmouth in South Devon-10 minute walk to Sidmouth beach.

 FAMILY INCOME: £150,000 a year

FAVOURITE MAGAZINE GENRE: Classical as it links in with her university course

FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMME: Peformances from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra or ITV dramas (e.g Broadchurch)

FAVOURITE RADIO STATION: Essential classics with Rob Cowan -BBC radio 3

FREQUENCY OF BUYING MAGAZINES: Buys TV guides once a month and Buys music magazines of a classical genre once a month-sometimes more depending on special events coming up.

USUAL AMOUNT SPENT ON ONE MAGAZINE: £3.50

RELATIONSHIP STATUS:  Dating "Dan", stable 2 year boyfriend who's also 19 studying jazz music at Manchester University and interested in playing his bass guitar at gigs

INSTRUMENT: Flute and piccolo

INTERESTS:  Music Orchestra's, University of Surrey's choir, teaching flute privately to a 7 year old student, Tennis playing, Busking in Guilford town centre and playing at weddings (she charges for playing at weddings), Going to the gym weekly to keep fit, Yoga



DESIRED PROFESSION: Play flute for the English National Ballet

PAST EDUCATION: 15 GCSE's A*-B grade.
                                       3 A*'S at A-Level 
                                       Graduated from Honiton Grammar School

This is all the data I have collected from my questionnaire results. Its very important, as data collected from, this can be used in my final magazine design to make it of top quality and a popular magazine in todays market. It will help me establish genre, target audience, price ect..

whys it important to produce a questionnaire?

Its very important to my research task, to produce a questionnaire and ask a range of different people to fill it out. This is because by evidence sustained from the results of the questionnaire I can establish my target audience for my magazine and therefore have a clear idea of what needs to be included to appeal to my specific target audience. Furthermore I can identify what genre of magazine would sell best, because of data collected from the questionnaire. By analysing the data collected I can include all important conventions, and therefore make my magazine I success.

QUESTIONNAIRRE

 

1.) How old are you? (Please circle)

10yrs and below   11-16    17-22    23-28    29-34      35-40    older than 40 

 

2.) What is your current occupational status? (Please circle)

 Younger than secondary school      Secondary school     Sixth form/collage     university   full- time work         part time work     other

3.)Is your occupational job, music related (e.g music student at university , studying music A-level at school, Music teacher?)

PLEASE CIRCLE:      YES              NO           UNSURE

4.) How often do you buy specifically music magazines monthly?(please circle)

I don’t buy magazines       1-2times    3-4 times     5-6 times   more than 6 times

5.) What genre of music magazine do you usually purchase? (Please circle)

Pop       Rock    Classical     Indie   Mainstream    R&B     other please state:

6.) What stands out most top you on the front cover of a music magazine?

 Colour scheme     Image      Typography (font, words, size of words ect)        Puffs (free gifts offered  ect)      

Celebrities         other

7.) How much would you be happy to spend on one issue of a music magazine?

£1 or less          £2-£3         £4-5         £6-£7      more than £7

8.) On the front cover of a magazine, do you prefer images of people or places?(please circle)

People         Places        Other  

9.) Do you like images present on a double page spread? (Please circle)

Yes        no   

10.) Do you or would you like to follow music magazines on social networking sites (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, twitter)

Yes       no

11.) If you could see more of a certain genre of music magazine on today’s market- which genre would it be?

None    pop     classical    R&B    Indie     Rock     other         

12.)If you don’t buy magazines-what is the reason?(please circle)

Lack of time     Too expensive     not available at my local supermarket/newsagent      I don’t want to

For my final piece it is important I understand the typical conventions of magazine contents pages. This will hopefully aid me in achieving the best outcome in my final contents page.

In this presentation I have analysied and explained all the components present in a magazine double page spread. By doing this I have identified key components I must include in my own magazine double page spread. Its also improved my knowledge of how each page of a magazine fits together and compliments each other which will hopefully help to improve the quality of all my pages for my coursework.

In order to make sure I achieved everything in my final creation, I needed to identify the main components of magazines that are available in today's market. By doing this is hopefully can include all of these components in my own magazine which I will need in order to receive the best outcome. These components just apply to the front covers of magazines but I will also upload contents page components and double page spread components once I have researched them.

This is another analysis of a magazine avaliable on the market. I have identified the key features making it popular.

Here is an analysis of a Top of the Pops music magazine currently avaliable on the market. I have analyised the skills used to make this a sucessful magazine to sell in order to use and learn skills of which i could use in my own magazine.

Hi im Naomi Palfreman, and for my AS media coursework i am designing and producing a magazine front page, contents page and double page spread based on a music themed magazine. I will need to undergo reserach of my target market-by producing questionairres and surveys-to do this i could use social media so its of a large scale research.I also have to investigate current products avaliable on the market today, and research which one sells best so i have a template to base my designs on. I then will have to carefully plan and design my magazine to make sure its of a high standard and would sell on today's music market.

I will need to use a range of camera shots, and take pictures of a high standard to achieve the best marks. In addition it is very important i can master the skills of photoshop as this will be the base programme i use for my magazine.

If i want to include people i will also need to ask people in advance to model for my magazine and gather all appropraite props for this. I will need to then use initiative and organisation skills to arrange a time when i can take pictures of these people-with the best equipment to capture my images.

This will all need to be done within the time frame of the coursework and uploaded onto my blog.