Task 3: Initial audience research

Task 2- Market research

 

 

 

Market Research

 

In this task I had to find out what music magazines already exist in the UK and had to analyse their target audience, who buys the magazines, the publishers of the magazines and its circulation figures.

I found out that there is a gap in the market for a music magazine focusing on female pop icons for example beyonce, rihanna and Nicki Minaj, as there is only Top of the Pops that has this genre of magazine.

 

Introducing the main task and initial ideas MUSIC MAGAZINE

Now that I have completed my preliminary task of producing a front cover and contents page for the college magazine.
My main task is to professionally produce the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new muisc magazine. Ensuring all of the images and text included are my own and it has to have a minimum of 6 expertly taken and appropriated edited images.
I am going to produce a music magazine focused at girls and by conducting some market research on what girls like to see in magazines that already exist and then I will incorporate the features girls like in my magazine, however I will focus it mainly on music.
The content of my magazine will be articles on famous musicians, the latest music, interviews with icons such as Lady Gaga, Rihanna (musicians that girls listen to), celebrity/musician gossip, reviews of gigs/concerts and festivals, images of concerts/festivals and include the music charts.
I am going to target my magazine at girls ranging from 12-18 year old and include different genres of music in my magazine such as Pop,R&B, Soul and rap to appeal to more people.

Student Magazine Prezi moodboard

Student Magazine on Prezi

magazine

The magazine VERGE has used Eliza Doolittle as the model, she is positioned central on the page pulling a strange pose with her fingers above her eyes. She attracts the reader’s attention immediately as the background is white contrasting her black hair and she is wearing a bright orange coloured jumper. Her face is brightly lit and very clear also attracting the reader. The editor had used colour schemes of yellow, orange, red which are all warm colours however they have contrasted this effect with blue which has the connotations of cold.

Terminology & analysis of magazine front cover