Now that I've complete all of my music magazine, you will notice that i have used a range of different skills which displays my research, construction and my evaluation, e.g. movie maker and slide share. Over this period, i have learnt how significant the target audience is as everything in media revolves around them because they are the consumers, along with this, i have realised, how each code and convention is used to appeal to the audience. I feel that i have progressed from the preliminary task and i have shown that through the develoment of the music magazine.

My Music Magazine

Feed Back

These are the views and thoughts on my magazine commented by my target audince...

Here is the Evaluation of my magazine, explaining how i have been able to construct my music magazine and what i have learnt in the process ...

Music mag evaluation [recovered]

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Double Page Article

Construction Douple Page Article

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Contents Page

Construction contents page

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Front Cover

Construction front cover

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Construction

I have started my construction for my magazine, i will show you something i have made on sideshare, showing you a step by step process which explains what i have done and why i have done it.

I have now decided what images i am going to use for my music magazine, and here they are presented in slide share, displaying how i have edited them ...

Construction of my images edited version

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Images that i'm not using in my magazine

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Now that i have enough images, i need to decide which images i am going to use for my music magazine, hopefully, they will be a variety of shots, then i can start on my construction of my magazine.

My Photo shoot

My Photo shoot has been successful due to the variety of my shots, from longs shots to close-ups, however, during the construction of my magazine, i realised i needed more images that i had initially thought, so i arranged another photo shoot where i had enough images for my magazine.

This is my sheet on which I prepared all of the models and what they were going to wear.

Make sure that you click on the title of each slide to see each artist perform one of their songs.

Influential artists

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Photoshoot

Now that I understand my basic plan and idea for my music magazine, I can start to organise my photo shoot for my magazine, I need to get models to play artists and they need to portray themselves as if they are apart of the target audience that they're acting as, including: goths, emos, rockers and heavy metal lovers. Not only this, I also need to make sure that my models know what kind of attitude they have as artists, to make sure that they understand this, I will give them an insight by looking at magazines and pictures of rock artists today. I also need them to be associated with the social tribes by having them wear the fashion style belonging to: rockers, emos, goths and heavy metal lovers. After organising this I can book the photo shoot and get my images for my music magazine.

Chirstmas

When considering my date of issue, Christmas, i knew i had to look at other rock magazines to see what they have portrayed to get the Christmas vibe whilst maintaining that hard core attitude.

My Flat Plans

Unfortunately, my slide share for my flat plans didn't show all my work as it had cut off some of my wrting so i will now add my j-pegs which shows my presentation instead.

My Flat Plans

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After sorting out the basic ideas within our group, we then did a detailed flat plan of our own individual magazine, when doing this flat plan, I looked at a variety of rock magazines to get inspiration, then planning my own magazine while making sure I had a unique idea which would appeal to my target audience.

Plans for my Music Magazine

Before doing my flat plan, me and my group decided it was best to brainstorm ideas, including:

how to keep the house style but continue to stay original - we thought it was best to keep three main house colours, which were red, white and black (as suggested by our questionnaire results). These colours will be constantly used by us, but then I came up with an idea that if we reversed the colours in the writing, masthead and background, our house styles will be present but each magazine will be original.

We also looked at how each magazine will reflet the period of time which it is issued - I decided to take on the season of good will and happiness, Christmas, with this, I looked at present rock magazines which have included elements of Christmas, and decided to imitate something similar when constructing my magazine.

Another thing I noticed were logos which represented the magazine, I found that if each issue displayed a logo, the issues will be immediately noticed for which magazine the belonged to.

When planning our magazines, we wanted to make sure that our target audience was happy, and when making a decision, we felt that it was necessary that they should have a say, as a result, when it came to the last three possible names for our magazines, we decided that our target audience should have the final say. In the end, we resulted with the name RIOT which we were all happy with.

Above are the images of my flat plan which includes my group's basic house style ideas.

My Target Audience

Overall, when looking at my audience research, particularly, the social groups, I have decided to choose a target audience of:
emos,
rockers,
goths and
heavy metal lovers. I found that these social tribes had a lot in common, having similar elements of dress sense and similar tastes in music (all based on rock music), therefore, linking them together, I've decided, if I target all of these social groups, I will manage to broaden my target audience as a result of their similarities.

My Questionaire Results

I have put these results in a variety of graphs, enabling me to easily refer to the data and use it when planning and constructing my music magazine.

My Music Magazine Questionaire

When preparing my questionaire, I made sure that I had included questions that I needed the answers to, as I would then use my results to help me prepare the music magazine, I hope in the end, my magazine will be the best it can be because I have used my audience research to my advantage.

Social Tribes

Institutions

http://www.universalmusic.com/

http://www.sonymusic.com/

http://www.wmg.com/

http://www.emi.com/page/Home_UK/

My Music Magazine

I now have to construct a music magazine but before i can do this i need to research different types of social groups and their interests in music. I can then choose my target audience which my magazine will be aimed at. I also felt that it was necessary to look at institutions as they are the ones who are in charge of the magazine itself.

Evaluation