My Target Audience

My target audience for the music magazine will be;

• People who enjoy music
• Especially the genre D'n'B genres like that
• Aimed towards 17+ to about 30 years old
• Aimed at both males and female
• Available to anyone who could afford it. (£1 issue)
• Monthly issue's

With this target audience I hope I will be able to cater to a lot of people musical needs. Due to a lot of people liking that type of music. I will hopefully be able to present the magazine in a way that is eye catching for the audience and is easily recognisable.

Uncut- Bob Dylan

In this double page spread the main image in Uncut is Bob Dylan, this has been placed on the right hand side, the image is in black and white this gives more detail to Bob Dylan's old face, he's looking forward giving the reader eye contact, this gives the look the Bob is a bit of a confrontational look, his stubbly beard also gives this impression of a confrontational man.


The background colour is more of a bright formal feel to it, but it doesn't really go with the black and white background, it doesn't really fit in with the whole confrontational feel to the photo. The actual article itself is written in a formal 'catching up' type way with how he is with Bob Dylan making the reader feel like both the writer and Bob are having a relaxing time. A small title which says Bob Dylan in a little black box is placed at the top of every page to ensure that the reader knows what article they reading.

The Word- John Martyn

In this double page spread the image is placed on the left, the image is of John Martyn and is a close up on his face, making you only pay attention to his face and nothing else. The image relates to the article because he's posed in a sad teary way due to having lost his legs.


The text is more formally laid out on the page due to the article being more of a serious tone. The article is placed on a black and white set out making it easy to read but also proving more how formal the article is.


Also on the image is a number of quotes from the article giving you an outline of the content. On the bottom of the magazine is the magazines website which could mean that if you visit the website you could find extra information about the article and other music related information. Also the date is placed to tell us which issue we are reading.

MOJO- Double Page Spread

In this double page spread the main image is placed mainly on the left, but it does carry on to the next page, only a little bit though. The image is of Bob Marley the photo looks to have been placed on an old looking photograph, kind of like a memorey. Bob Marley has a sort of relaxed look to him, as though he's chilling out with his friends ands hasn't reliased that someone has took a photo of him.Bob seems really friendly ln this image, like you could go up to him and have a chat.


The articles title is placed on the right page and has very bold and big font, with the title 'A change is gonna come', this is actually one of Bob Marley's songs he had written. The font itself feels stamp 'like'. The little paragragh at the bottom of the page seems to take a serious tone for the article meaning that the rest of the article is probably going to be more of a informal way rather then formal like the photograph. The words 'Bob Marley' and 'Andy Gill' are highlighted in the paragraph to show who that article is about and who actually wrote it.

Conventions of a music magazine.

The conventions of a music magazine are as follows;

• Music related Masthead, this is iconographic of music because NME stands for New Musical Express this takes up the top left part of the magazine cover.


• Images that are suitable for a music magazine (bands, artists), this helps the reader identify that the magazine they look at is a music magazine.


• Selling line on this magazine tells the reader, what this does is tells the reader what the main marketing point of that magazine is. Or the philsophy of the editoral team.


• Related music information to that magazine this helps define the actual genre of the magazine IE music, and also the genre of what music is in the music magazine.


• Fonts and colours that will relate to the audience, this makes the magazine more presentable to the audience.

My Action Plan

Here is my action plan, this is what I have to do in this part of the Music magazine project.

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  Brief
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  Define LIIAR
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  Conventions of music magazines and compare to non music mags
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  Conventions of music mag front cover, both in music and non music mags
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  Conventions of contents pages, both in music and non music mags
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  Conventions of double page spread, both in music and non music mags
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  IT drafts; front cover, contents page, double spread
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  Hand drafts; front cover, contents page, double spread
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  Mind map
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  Mood board
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  Textual analysis
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  Planning; Camera shots, name, audience, programmes, cover stories etc.
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  Target Audience.
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  Pictures, Diagrams, Videos, Links
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  Typography- fonts, size, colour?
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  Organisation- Models, location, costume, props, angle.
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  Denotation -What you see. & Connotation - The meaning
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  Evaluation.
  

LIIAR

L-Language is the term used to define components of a magazine, such as the masthead, main cover line, cover lines, main image, colour scheme, dateline, selling line and bar code.

I- Institution is the term used to describe who is behind the production, the companies like television channels, magazine publishers, radio stations and other companies.

I- Ideology is the term used to describe the idea of what the magazine is selling. Things that are important that should be included into it. So for example a video games magazine's ideology would be the actual games itself and for the ideology of a music magazine would be music.

R- Representation is the term used to define how something is presented to someone or soemthing. For example how we see the way the protaganist acts in a film or how a picture is taken of a band and how we see it.