Layout of a Cover

My magazine price and releases!

The price that my Magazine will be is £4.00 as it is quite a cheap affordable price as I am aiming it at people who are maybe at College or University so therefore they may not have a job that pays them much however some people could be in a good job were they are earning much more then what is needed! I will be releasing it on the first Friday of every month that way people won't have to pay to much to get the magazine and there is a copy quite regularly so people don't have to wait to long and can look forward to it.

Target Audience for my Music Magazine

I want to aim my magazine at 16 - 24 year olds; the S.E.G group I’ll be aiming it at is C1 to E. I picked this target audience because the younger generation are a lot more into music. The psychographics I will be aiming my Magazine at will be achievers that way they could also get inspired by the Magazine.

LIIAR of the Brief

L: My product will need to be eye-catching, look professional, look new and up to date and also meet what is expected of it in the brief. There will be a big bold Masthead like most of the music magazines out there; it will need to be recognizable and also short and Sweet! For example something like ‘NME’ which is short recognizable and one of the best Mastheads in the business! The colours I will use must be bright, eye-catching and make a good house style. A house style is needed in order to make the magazine more professional and attract a bigger audience. The house style used must be consistently used throughout my product. The main image on my front cover needs to be a medium close-up (MCU) you also need to be able to see the person's face and they also need to be showing eye contact. Including the eye contact will bring in a larger audience, this image will also show what the main story is for this issue at the bottom of it. My main image will be the main selling point of the magazine as it will be the anchorage. So therefore it must be clear and show what the story is about, or who the artist is because if the audience doesn’t understand it then they will be less reluctant to buy it. I will also have little pictures and headlines all over the front cover showing other stories in this issue to interest the audience more, and also there shall be teasing content across the top to show other stories and tease the audience with the stories. As all of the other good magazines, mine will include a price and a barcode. These are needed to make the magazine more professional. The barcode must be clearly visible and the price can’t be too expensive or too cheap, because if it’s too expensive people won’t buy it and if it’s too cheap you’ll make no or little profit.

I: The institution the magazine would be representing will be one created by me. I will use other institutions that sell music magazines such as ‘NME’, ‘Q’ and ‘Vibe’ to give me ideas on what sort of layout and structure good music magazines use so I can use them in my product.

I: I want the magazine to give information on what upcoming gigs there are, what artists are up to, give interviews with the favourite artists along with a few Exclusives! It will also show young aspiring artists in a good way rather than them all being ‘hoodies’.

A: I want to aim my magazine at 16 - 24 year olds; the S.E.G group I’ll be aiming it at is C1 to E. I picked this target audience because the younger generation are very into music and also get inspired by it.

R: I would like my magazine to represent music in a good way and promote artists. Rather than being the reason Teens are considered dangerous and intimidating. The magazine will show the artists in a good way and make people inspire to be like them.

Music Genre!

The music genre my music magazine will be on is Pop Music! I have chosen this genre as it appeals to the younger generation and also this this is the most popular Genre. This Genre of music has lots of different artists in it and most people do like Pop music, so therefore it covers a bigger target audience which will hopefully end up in more sales! Musicians reading this could also get ideas for their own songs too. There are a lot of great artists in this Genre of Music including Adele, JLS, The Saturdays and Jason Derulo (as you can see a song of his below)

Music Magazine Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

LIIAR Analysis of my magazine

L: My College magazine uses a lot of media products to try and challenge forms and Conventions of real life magazines. Some of the stuff that I have used are things such as; a barcode because all of the best magazines have barcodes so therefore that is what you expect of them so it is then a convention of a magazine, I also used a Banner headline which again is what you would expect a magazine to have to show off their best story, the Banner headline I have used though also includes the word ‘Exclusive’ which only the best of the best magazines usually get to use as it means that no one else has this story and that the thing what the story is about has given it only to this magazine to publish, obviously a Masthead has been used because that is the strongest media convention of a magazine because every good magazine in the world has a big recognisable Masthead on the front cover!

I: The institution that would distribute my College magazine would be the College itself that the magazine is representing which is Wyke College. Wyke College would distribute it because it is exclusively for the students of that College, and it will also be made by the students. It would have to be distributed by Wyke College because anyone outside of Wyke won’t care what’s going on with the College and what will be happening, so therefore it could not be distributed by anyone else as it has no relevance except from to the people inside of Wyke College.

I: My College magazine is aiming to give out information about what is happening at the College in that month (as it is released monthly); it will also be reviewing what has happened at Wyke College in the past month such as if there was any trips for any course, if there was a College party or if there was an exam or piece of coursework. The things that the magazine will be trying to get across to the students are things such as upcoming exams or pieces of coursework with tips on how to do well in them, parties that could be happening soon, interviews from students and teachers and also there will be a little bit of fun in it with ‘confessions of a teacher’ where they have to answer questions that could be embarrassing for them or for other teachers, there will also be ‘Bootroom Banter’ where we’ll interview some of the Wyke sports players and they’ll give us the scoop on their team mates. So overall my College magazine is trying to get across what the College has to offer for the Students, try to help with work that they have and also trying to bring a bit of fun and laughter into it.

A: My target audience has the demographic of about 16-19 year olds because that is the average age in which people attend College. The S.E.G for my Magazine will be class E because students are classed as that because they won't usually be earning a lot of money. The Psychographics of my Magazine is achievers because people that go to College want to achieve A Levels and my Magazine as well as letting them know what’s going on will help them achieve that. I have attracted my audience by surveying what the target audience would be and then surveying on what they would like to read and see on a front cover and made my magazine to suit them!

R: My College magazine will not try and stereo-type anyone in any way as it is not that type of magazine, it will be open for anyone to read and will not be made for any specific type except from the Demographic of College students. The colour of the Masthead is used to represent the House style of Wyke College which is purple so therefore that is why it is purple. All of the headlines and pictures are obviously there to denote what the story about is inside, for example, ‘Pozition College party coming soon!!’ is obviously there to denote that inside there is a story about the College party.