Music Magazine- Additional Research Into Target Audience

Photography Plan

Music Magazine- Pitch

By researching music magazines which are associated to the music genre I chose to base my music magazine on, I noticed that the codes and conventions are very similar if not identical. A similarity that the magazines I looked at had was that they have the same target audience. Through knowing this I applied it to my magazine to make my magazine stand out from other magazines by:

-My music magazine will cost £2.99 as I felt like that is an affordable price for my target audience and for the quality of my magazine, by price my magazine at £2.99 I feel like my magazine will be successful and I will generate a profit.

-As my magazine is £2.99 I will regulate my product on a monthly basis in order to ensure that my magazine is of a high quality. Also my magazine will be available online for anyone that missed an issue.

-In order to take my pictures I used a professional camera to achieve the best quality photographs possible. I did this so that my front cover, content page and double page spread looked professional and of a high quality.

-To differentiate my music magazine from other magazines available, I used a unique selling point which is winning tickets to ‘V-Fest’! As a result of this I aim to attract more customers as the festival has a large following.

-I used puffs and cover lines on the front cover of my magazine to draw people attention towards my magazine. 

Conventions Of A Music Magazine

In order to create a guide to stick to when I constructed my music magazine, I researched the conventions of a music magazine then made a list of the conventions that the front cover, content page and double page spread consist of.

Front Cover:

-Barcode on the bottom of the page

-The price of the magazine

-Consists of selling lines and puffs

-A mast head that is memorable and stands out

-Large main image (typically an MCU shot)

-Date and issue number

Content Page:

-Features, divided into categories

-Page numbers next to the topic

-Bold title at the top of the page

-A large image

-Consistent colour scheme

Double Page Spread:

-Large image that takes up a page (mode of address)

-A quote from the person the magazine interviewed

-Simple, professional and elegant font

-Drop capital

-Context placed into columns