Research and Planning:Music magazine Interviews

Here are the three interviews I conducted to help with final magazine draft 

from these video's I found out that the target audience would like on the front cover more cover lines added, a medium close up of the artist/model and to make the image larger

for the content page I need to add more colour and information to the articles

for the double page spreed there was a mix between a long shot or a wide shot of them on stage for the main image and the idea of putting images inside the text was positive 

Research and Planning: Questionnaire results

Research and Planning: Questionnaire

Here is an uncompleted questionnaire which I handed out to 10 people to see what there thoughts and ideas are about a Rock magazine that I will create, it basically asked about colours i could use, which fonts they like and cost for the magazine  

Research and Planning: Double Page Spread Analysis

Genre: The genre of the double page spread it Rock. Firstly the Masthead  of the page gives us the first clue the "Kings Of Leon" are a southern rock group from the US. Secondly the long shot picture of obviously the Kings Of Leon gives the second clue. A wide shot of the band with the single light gives a slight sinister dark look to the image, which I would relate to rock music. although the colour scheme is very plain the hint of red in the Sub Heading relates with the stereotypical colours associated with rock music.

The target audience: Purely on the age of the band and type of magazine this is, I would have thought there audience would be Male students around the age of 18-25. I came to this conclusion because the magazine layout looks modern and new, also The Kings Of Leon became popular in the year 2000, 12 years ago with the average listener again around 15-20. the final thing that brought me to this conclusion is that a couple of there released albums have been aged rated and need parental  conformation to buy. 

Layout: The layout of the Double page spread is split into the two main sections Text and Image.
The text is set out like an interview, with the questions in bold and answers in lower case, the text is set out in a newspaper columns differentiates the text from one long paragraph the use of colouring in the introduction draws your eye immediately to the interview text. The picture represents the band image by using a wide shot this shows all the band and full body, in terms of the genre of music they play the low lighting but one light source could possibly be the bright idea in term of music lyrics.
model representation: the body language of the band shows they are a layed back and relaxed the second from the right looks deep in thought could be thinking of next song or similar in terms of clothing its casual  again showing they could be relaxed, the facial expressions confused me and by the look of it them.

Research and Planning: Contents Page Analysis

Genre. The Genre of the content page is a range of different music types from Rock to Rap we know this by, the range of cover story's featured. For instance"48 Eminem's Road Back From Hell" Eminem genre of music is Rap/Hip Hop so I initially though is it a Rap magazine with an audience of young males. But the bottom left picture contradicts my initial though because of Brack Obama and the article headline "The GOP Comeback". What would the genre be here Politics? and why would it be in a music magazine? Finally Bruce Springsteen an iconic 70's rocker obviously his genre is rock why would it be in a magazine with politics.The conclusion I have come up with is that The Rolling Stone magazine genre is Music. Every type of genre in one magazine weather its Country to Indie Rock and features the most important news out of music.

Target Audience. By looking at the genre of the magazine content page, the target audience appeals to every music listener of all ages. Firstly Eminem appeals to manly young males students aged 15-20 as an estimate.Where as Bruce Springsteen I guess would appeal to women aged around 50 years since he started his career in 1969.

The layout of the content page is split into two sections on the left hand side the three most important articles shown in picture form.This gives the audience the idea what the article is about with out reading it.I like the use of the page number being slightly opaque telling what page the article is on but not being to bold.

On the right hand side it consist like a normal content page. Name of the article with the page number next to it, I find the layout of this side really useful with it being split into three sections. Firstly the Featured articles on the cover page. Next National Affairs self explanatory national news. Departments split into different music genres. As a reader I would find it really easy to navigate to the article I would like to read.So the Content page fulfils  its job.

Research and Planning: Podcast

Here are two videos that continue from each other with basically describe what I have been up to in the past couple of months, talking about my blogger account and certain posts

Research and Planning: Target Audience on Prezi

Target Audience on Prezi

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Target Audience on Prezi

Research and Planning: Masthead design

To start off with I came up with a range of names for a rock magazine. I found that classic was the best one for all types of rock and years .It could mean a Classic song by a particular artist or a Classic Point of Rock history, at the moment I quite like the last font style and the fifth one down because of the sixty style and being unique compared to other rock magazines    

Research and Planning: Music Magazine

Rolling stone Magazine

The genre of the magazine I believe is rock with its iconic name rolling stone as its mast head and its cover story consisting of PINK FLOYD, which is arguably one of the best more classic rock bands from the UK. The rock genre is backed up with the addition of an American rock band THE WHITE STRIPES. bottom right but I don't think this magazine is created just for one genre. Chris Daughtry who is apparently a R&B singer/rapper. the flames also hint that it might be a rock magazine as well as the name of the famous band the rolling stones but this could be just a coincidence.

With the genre being rock, most of its audience are a fan of rock music or music listeners of all ages. Pink Floyed 30+ mostly male. But The White Stripes 15+ again mostly males just because the genre isn't steriotypical what a woman would listen too.


The layout of the magazine is centred around the picture with the mast head at the top of the page. with a central position and cover stories around the edges of the picture. to show as much of the medium close up shot as possible. I especially like the position of "the next war on download" story. drawing your attention from reading the mast head. The mise-en-scene(everything on the page) of the cover works well by not being over filled with stories and the picture being the centre of attention.

The genre of this magazine is rock. I know this by firstly the mast head " classic rock" bold black lettering grabs your attention. the next point that gives it the genre of rock is the main cover story. the iconic rock band Aerosmith with there lead singer Steven Tyler, the pictures long shot suggests the power and fame he has. the final point is the colours used.Black,Red and Gold. Black is associated with being dark which rock can be.Red is associated with Danger defiantly rock has some danger in it and finally Gold.Money

With the genre being rock, most of its audience listen to rock music or music listeners of all ages. Aerosmith was founded around 1970 so most of there fans will be 45+ Males same goes with the other cover story of THIN LIZZY and Ronnie Wood from the rolling stones. but obviously women like the same music around the same age.
 The layout of the magazine is centred around the picture of Steven Tyler with the Mast head at the top behind him. his Band is central of the page drawing your eyes first but not distracting from the picture. the other cover stories surrounding him but are separate so not to get confused if its linked with the picture finally I like the situation of the "UK's fasted growing music magazine" showing its importance but not distracting from the main storeys.

Research and Planning: Collage

From doing the collage I have reconised that my magazine theme will be ether be rock, or rock and roll, the target audience shown with these images will be mainly male of the age of 30+ due to the artists shown, but adding more relivent artists of this era will appeal to a larger audience, I think in terms of magazine layout will follow the style of Q magazine with the simple bold text and page furniture. the text will be a bold santerif style