Target Audience

As my music genre is Indie, also including (Indie Pop and Indie Rock) which have quite niche audiences I am going to target my audience around the ages of 15-19. The music itself is usually targetted at young people as its usually very independent music which isn't usually mainstream as pop music for example. The gender is going to be targetted at both female and male, as there is going to be different artists included in the magazine that will appeal to both genders instead of just one, making it equal. As my age group goes as young as fifteen years old they are probably going to fit in with the E section in S.E.G as they are most likely to be unemployed. Perhaps even D or C2 to include ninteen year olds, as they make been in full time employment or semi-skilled manual workers by that age.

Initial Ideas

Music Genre on Prezi

Price & Publishing

Price and when to publish your magazine is very important, music magazines are usually published every fornight or month depending on the type of audiene. I'm going to publish my magazine every fornight and make it £2.00 per copy usually magazines such as "Q" magazine is priced around £3.50 which I've closly related to magazine too. Usually if magazines are published per month they would cost £4.00-£5.00. My magazine is cheaper for twice the features, which makes it really good value for my target audience which is teenagers to young adults. I think this is an affordable price as if they buy it twice a month it will only cost £4.00 which is the average for most music magazines as they are quite big. Also, if I were making the magazine for real the price would also depend on how much it would cost to make, and how much of a profit would be made to decide on an exact price for the magazine this has to be taken into consideration.

LIIAR Analysis of Music Magazines

I really liked the front cover of Q Magazine, as Florence and the Machine is an Indie-Pop band it's very similar to my genre for my magazine. The magazine has used obvious things to make it look, eye grabbing.

As the artist on the front cover, Florence is known for her red hair they have used it to fill the whole of the page so it makes it look like the background without really noticing that it's her hair. Her face is directly in the middle of the page which makes us straight away look in that position and makes her look reconisable to the audience. Above it says her name and a preview of what the article/interview is going to be about. As it's the biggest text on the page a part from the title of the magazine "Q", it's obvious that this is what the majority of the magazine is going to feature. They have used white text all throughout with hints of blue, which has created a housestyle theme of white and blue which compliments the background of Florence's red hair.

The title of the magazine is "Q" which is known for being a white "Q" with a background of a bright red box. The reason that it's named Q magazine is because at first they was going to name is "cue" as a sense of recording however later that name was changed to just "Q" as it may have been mistaken for a snooker magazine and that the single letter would stand out more to the audience. The colour red can connotate either danger, or in this case perhaps exclusive information, as this magazine advertises new realeases for example and promotes new artists. Red is also a primary colour, which also adds to the simplicity of the magazine being called "Q".

My Music Genre

My music magazine is going to be based on a couple of different genres that merge together. I want my magazine to focus on mainstream music that is popular at this moment in time. For example, popular music. I also want my magazine to feature "indie pop" which is for the bands such as "Florence and the Machine". I am also basing my model that is going to feature on my front cover on "Florence and the Machince.

"Indie" music is shortened for independent music which means "do it yourself" in a recording and publishing sense. During the punk rock era of music the number of independent labels grew and the UK Indie Chart came about. Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music, that originated here in the United Kingdom.

Here are some pictures of artists that I want to assoicate with my magazine.

Ed sheeran

Lana Del Rey

Florence and the Machine

Music Genre

A Music Genre is a category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music. Music is divided into many different genres. Music Genre depends on opinion, as all different people like all different genres. A genre is split into three different groups, then they are split further into sub genres.

Art Music
Art music is usually classical music as well as historical. The music is usually formal however it can include certain forms of jazz (although jazz is a primarily form of popular music). Art music is usually only instrumental and if and when vocals are include they explicit poetic, political, or religious meanings.

Popular Music
Popular music belonging to any of the musical styles that are promoted to the general public by one or more of the mass media. Unlike art music, popular music is distributed to a large group of listeners. Popular music benefits the market economy as it makes a profit, most commercial  music retailers will put their music on radio stations or on television advertisements.

Traditional Music
Traditional music or what used to be known as "Folk Music" is passed down usually through singing, listening and sometimes dancing. The music is part of a certain region or culture.

Heres a spider diagram of different types of music genre. There is many types of genres, some are more popular then others as some genres fit into "Popular Music".

Here is an example of a rock magazine "Kerrang". Without knowing this was a rock magazine, you could spot the ideology on the cover. Firstly, the lead singer of "Green Day" is the main image. It also includes in big bold lettering "GREEN DAY". This is to attract an audience that might like "Green Day" so they will buy the magazine. It's also writen in the same font as "Kerrang" is written, this implys that they are both the same thing, they are both rock genre for example. You know it's a music magazine as the lead singer is holding a guitar. Guitars are usually assoicated with rock genre. Some of the text above the "GREEN DAY" has been writen in green.

The Brief - Analysis

Language
The language for my Music Magazine is going to include all the magazine conventions. For example a main masthead, subtitles, headlines etc. The front cover needs a housestyle or colour scheme that will follow through the contents page also. Depending on the genre of your magazine, your colour scheme will change to make it suitable. Also the camera angles are very important as it needs to look like a realistic magazine and the image is the most central part of the front cover. The front cover needs to include things like the price & barcode, anchorage, teaser, kicker, adverts/blurb, the date & issue number, main feature, main image, subtitles and headlines. All of thes things are important for a successful magazine. Also the front cover needs to look busy, advertising everything thats included in the magazine, so people will want to buy it and read the contents.

Intuition
The insuition is to create a magazine for all different audiences. If a student is creating the magazine for example, it would be for students similar ages as they already know what kind of music people their age are interested in. It may advertise a different, new brand of music to a specif audience who may like it.

Ideology
The ideology of the magazine is too promote the music. They might promote it too the people who are already intrested in a specific type of music OR even try and introduce the music to a new audience using celebrities or familar artists as the frotn cover. This might persuade people to buy the magazine because for example, their favorite artist is included.

Audience
The audience would depend on who your target audience for the magazine is. The magazine could be targetted at young people by promoting celebrities. Or it could be targetted at middle aged people using old bands and music they would enjoy. The audience could be split into demographics, this could depend on how expensive the magazine is, and could the target audience afford it. A student making a Music Magazine would probably target a younger audience as the maudity of young people listen to similar music.

Representation
The representation of the magazine is importantant as people will only purhase it if it's modern and up to date with the music young people are associated with. They will also be promoting a certain artist related to that magazine by representing them in a certain way. They can make the artist seem suitable for that style of magazine by changing their appearance.

Music Magazine Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Audience Feedback

This is audience Feedback from my final draft of the magazine.-

The creator has kept to a colour scheme and house style, mainly consisting of purple and white. She has a clear MCL photograph taken, but even though the information on her magazine cover is clear she lacks it and could of written more. The masthead is very clear and is white and purple, which also signifies relevance to Wyke College's colour scheme for their logo etc.
She has also used a consistent pattern of the same font, style and colour for the subtitles etc.   

Launch of Magazine

Here is many ways in which I could promote my magazine to students.

I could use viral advertsfor example on the internet, perhaps putting it on the college website or making a website link for the students to read the magazine online. However students could not buy the magazine if they could just read it online. By adding a feature to the magazine for example, free tickets to an event for party, students will buy the magazine for that feature instead of reading it online.

I could also promote the magazine on popular social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter. This could mean making a profile, or just simply adding an advert to them which students could look at.

Final Product

This is my final draft of my front cover, which I have also sent to Moodle as a image file.

This is my final contents page which I have also sent to Moodle as a picture file.

Planning - Draft's Contents Page

Planning - Drafts

This was my first rough draft without adding features to see if I would have enough room for my masthead. I was going to include the