I have edited the image and manipulated the colours, equally i have created lots of different music magazine conventions including a masthead, feature stories, barcode, plug, tag tine, banner, and date and price to make my cover.
My Mock Up Contents Page.
I have continued the house style of my cover and included contents page conventions such as; images, titles, feature stories, page numbers, and and exclusive feature.
My Mock Up Double Page Spread.
On my double page spread I have also continued the house style from my cover and contents page, including other conventions such as; title, page number, main image, article, drop cap, and an introductory sentence to establish what the article is about.
Whilst creting my magazine i have made the dicision to change the genre of music i want my product to represent from ~OP to R&B as through creating my colour scheme and house style i am now able to visualize how the product could appeal to an older target audience, both male and female, representing the R&B genre of music. the visual aspect of my product does not fit in with the conventions of pop music, therefore I am going to aim my magazine at an older audience interseted in R&B. Equally I have realised I do not feel that the conventions included in pop would not show the featre stories in the way I wish to put them across to my audience, and I have now decided through my audience research that R&B is a type of music more fitting with my styles, ideology and colours. I have made my mock up to establish my final ideas before producing my music magazine.
6)How much do
you usually spend on a music magazine?
-If I did buy them I would pay around £3
-Up to about £3.50
-£2.50
-nothing
-No more than £3.00
-No more than £3
-£3.50
-£3.00
-£2.00
-£4.00
-No more than £4
7)What do you
look for in the product?
-Gossip in the music industry
-Information about
upcoming artists and gigs
-Latest music information Information about artists
-Good feature stories
-Exclusive features
-Good images and colours.
-Exclusive features
-Posters and images
-Interesting feature
stories and new releases.
-Gossip
8)What type
of free gift do you expect?
-A free cd or poster
-Cd or discounts in
shops
-Posters
-CD or gig tickets
-CD
-Posters
-Posters
-Posters or a CD
-Concert tickets
-CD’s
-Posters
9)Who is your
favourite artist and why?
-Alex turner, I feel his songs tell a story
-Rat Boy, Really like
his style
-Hannah Wants because she’s sick
-Jello Biafra because the
things he sings about are true
-Ed Sheeran, he is
down to earth.
-The
Wombats, they are different and I enjoy listening to their music
-Taylor Swift, she has good music.
-Birdie, she has a nice
voice
-The Vamps, they are
local.
-McBusted, I grew up
with their music.
-Busted, they have
exciting music.
10)What do you enjoy reading about this artist?
-When a new album is going to come out
-When he releases new
songs and music videos
-New song releases
-New song releases
-Background
information
-I enjoy reading about how they got where they
are and things before they were famous
-Tour information and gossip.
-New releases
-Background
-New releases.
-Upcoming events My questionnaire has allowed me to develop a clearer understanding about my target audience and enabled me to make better decisions when it comes to designing and producing my product. I am aware of who would be interested in buying different genres of music magazines and what sort of features attracts hem to the product and make it sell better. Tis is useful to know n the music magazine industry as it's a very competitive area and important that your product appeals to the target audience. I understand now that for the age group 16-17, R&B, indie, and rock music are the most popular. This is clear through my questionnaire and I have developed a key understanding as to which features work best on the existing products of these genres.
-Focus group questions:
1)Which cover do you like more and why? (Show two
pop magazine covers that use different house colours)
2)Would you prefer to buy a paper-back music
magazine or an electronic copy of the product and why? (Show electronic and
paper-back version)
3)Out of these costume ideas which do you prefer
and why? (Show images from blog of my costume research )
4)Do you feel this colour scheme is
representational of the pop music genre, would you find this appealing if used
on a pop product? (Show blog post of colour scheme research and ideas.)
5)Which name do you like most and feel would be
best suited for a pop music magazine, why? (Show blog post of name ideas)
Pop music focus group.
R&B Focus Group
After I decided t change the genre of my product to R&B from pop, I decided to redo my focus group with the new cloud them and name dead to ensure I use the most appealing features on my product. Equally, I feel the target audience of an R&B product is more accessible to me from my surroundings so I will be able to understand more about how to make a product appropriate to R&B audiences than pop audiences.
