My Reader Profile

Pop Music

 

What Is Pop Music?

·     Orientated towards the youth market.

·      Pop artists are usually teen artists.

·      Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form.

·      By the early 1980’s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music               television channels such as MTV.

·      The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus upon simple themes. (love, relationships, etc.)

·      Much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or is used to find rhythm in dance.

My Magazine:

For my magazine, I have chosen pop music genre. My decision is because the pop culture is very popular In today’s society, meaning there is a lot of areas to include, analyze, and discuss. Through my research I have developed a detailed understanding of the interests of a pop audience, and how existing magazines use the typical conventions in a way to make their product appeal to the target audience.

My Target Audience-
 

age range- 16-25

girls- 70%

boys- 30%

price- £2.99

frequency- weekly

location of distribution- local supermarkets/corner shops/music stores
social class- all social classes

My Reader Profile

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Examples of Reader Profiles

The reader profle allows for a product to have a target audience and enables the conventions to be used in an appropriate way in which would be appealing to make the product sell. It is important to keep a target audience in mind when designing a product in order to use the reader profile to find features and images which would be considered appropriate and appealing to them. Also, the product will sell better if it is more apropriate for the target audience, meaning the circulation and readership of the product will also be higher as a result.

How Many People Consume Magazines-

Monthly issues are most commonly sold, showing audiences do not often consume magazines very often, howver a two week interval is not demonstrated on this graph, it may still be a popular option and influence the audience to purchase the product more often than one month intervals.

Reader Profile

The term “reader profile” is used to refer to the profile of an individual that includes self-reported information designed to give people a picture of who that person is, or a profile developed by a content creator with the goal of determining who content is being produced for so that it can be tailored for the audience. A reader profile provides information about people; this information can then be used to make that content more relevant to the interests of readers.

Music Genres

 (pop music)

 (indie music)

(hip-hop music)

(country music)

summary-
from my findings i understand the difference in the audience of each music genre and the type of interests each audience have. from this i can deduce the sorts of features that will be used in the conventions of each genre of music magazine in order for it to appeal to the target audience. i also understand which types of magazine are successful and which ones appeal less to the target audience. i also have a deeper understanding of how the denotations are used on the magazine covers in order to give the intended connotation to the audience and the ideology behind each convention used on the different magazines.

Examples Of Popular Music Genres

Alternative Music

Blues

Classical Music

Country Music

Dance Music

Easy Listening

Electronic Music

European Music (Folk / Pop)

Hip Hop / Rap

Indie Pop

Inspirational (incl. Gospel)

Asian Pop (J-Pop, K-pop)

Jazz

Latin Music

New Age

Opera

Pop (Popular music)

R&B / Soul

Reggae

Rock

Singer / Songwriter (inc. Folk)

World Music / Beats

 

Genre

Genre is the categorization of a specific piece artistic composition based on its form, content, and style.


Music Genre
 

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared set of conventions.

Music can be divided into different genres in several ways. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often debatable, and some genres may overlap.

Conventions Analysis

Main Brief

To design a front cover, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, a minimum of four images must be used.