Music Magazine First Draft: Front Cover

Front Cover:
With my front cover i tried to copy the style of major music magazines: Kerrang and NME, with a wide range of colours predominantly Red, Yellow and Black. This is because Kerrang and NME both appeal to 16-24 year olds therefore such colours are appropriate for my target audience.
I believe also that my magazine has asthetic appeal as all the colours compliment each other and give it a smooth proffesional look. On top of this i have placed my images in such a way to imply that this magazine contains relevant music information, yet it should not be taken too seriously, with the images appearing as if they have been thrown on.
Since my magazine is going at a weekly circulation, i felt it apt to set the price lower than my competitiors but high enough to warrant being considered as a proffessional piece. I have also offered incentives for people to buy on the front cover (free cd and i-tunes download).
Overall, i feel very happy with my front cover as i believe it shows off the magazine to customers, whilst giving the reader a serious glimpse as to what is inside.

Music mag research

For my music magazine, i thought that it was important to first of all look at the competition and then comment on the magazines to point out interesting features that i could include in my own magazine.

Music mag research

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What type of music will be featured in the magazine? (Content)

Now that i know what the target audience for my magazine will be (16-24) year olds, i can set about the content in the magazine. For this, my partner and I decided to create a survey for our group in order to find out which genre of music most affects our age group. The survey featured a list of 5 genres of music in which they would tick there favourite two genres:

• Pop
• Rock
• R&B
• Rap
• Indie

The participants were then asked to list there top 3 favourite bands, this way we could asess the type of music that people would like to read/hear about.
The results were as followed:

1. Pop
2. Rock
3. Indie
4. Rap
5. R&B

In the section of favourite bands the results were:

1. Kings of Leon
2. Katy Perry
3. The Killers

From these results, we now have a clear base and content to work from in order to produce an appropriate magazine.

Who is the magazine aimed at? (Target Audience)

After a quick survey conducted in our classroom we found that the easiest group to focus on would be 16-24 year olds, as it is the age group we are in and therefore gives us more information to work with for our magazine.

Main Project

The next step for my media studies coursework is to create a music magazine to go on sale to the general public. There are many things to consider with a music magazine i.e.

• Who is the magazine aimed at? (Target Audience)
• What type of music will be featured in the magazine? (Content)
• How do publishers attract customers to buy their magazines? (Appeal)

My own knowledge of music magazines is that the design tends to be focussed around the age group that is aimed at, e.g. Kerrang magazine is aimed at 16-24 year olds and therefore features a range of colours and cool fonts to make the reader want to pick it up, whereas a magazine such as Mojo or Q tends to use duller more serious images and fonts in order to both attract to their audience of 24-40 year olds and also represent the content inside.

School Magazine Final Draft

These are the final two drafts for my School magazine project, my front cover and contents page.
In these final two pieces I decided to look at the feedback people had given me from my first drafts and base my changes around the comments. The biggest difference between this and the original draft is the more professional look and appeal with brighter colours, fonts and pictures.

Overall I am happy with my final draft of my magazine, now I have the experience of making a front cover, I believe that this will help me in future when it comes to designing my music magazine front cover and contents page.

Feedback

Feedback from our first school magazine draft.

Feedback

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