Researching the market place

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Initial Ideas

Type of music magazine: Indie
The target audience: Males
                                  17- 25
                                  interested in attending gigs, festivals and indie/rock music.

Music magazine research - Codes and Conventions of music magazine contents pages

As a class we managed to produce a list of the codes and conventions of a music magazine. This is what we managed to find out:

All magazine contents pages include:

• have reference to the magazine name
• have word contents on
• contain one main image
• layed out into 2/3 columns
• apart from the main image there is more that one other image
• the colour scheme matches that of the fornt cover meaning there are only around 3 colours
• the images included relate to the page numbers in the magazine
• there is a website or way of contact included on them
• there are more images than writing included
• contain advertisements e.g the next issue
• an editors letter
• different font for section headings (sometimes include graphics)
• banner to highlight important things.
• usually 2 columns of pictures and one of writing.

Music magazine research - Codes and Conventions of magazine front covers

Image:

• usually meduim long shot/ medium close up
• direct address
• famous people used
• used a specific mise en scene
• mainly studio shots o liver performance
• mean and moody shots

Masthead:

• at the top of the page
• simple words
• relates to the genre
• unique font
• bold and stands out

Font:

• different to masthead

Colour:

• colour scheme includes no more that 3 colours
• realtes to the genre/ target audience

Layout:

• main centeral image as background
• coverlines around main image/ at the bottom
• highlighting banner across the bottom/top
• barcode is on the right hand side
• graphics used
• graphics highlight the key points
• positioning statement

Music Magazine Research - Examples

1. NME
2. Kerrang
3. Q
4. TOTP
5. We 'Heart' Pop
6. Classic Rock
7. Total Guitar
8. Mojo
9. Mix Mag
10. Vibe
11. Froots
12. Classical music
13. Rock legends
14. Living blues
15. Blues music now
16. Contry weekly
17. Country standard time
18. Big Takeover
19. Crawdaddy
20. Back Streets Highway
21. Opera now
22. The word
23. Hammer
24. Country
25. Play
26. Classical FM
27. Rolling stone
28. Rock and Folk
29. Soul Shine
30. Alternative press
31. King
32. No depression
33. Blender
34. Future music
35. Blurt
36. Loops
37. Rave
38. Scratch
39. Bass
40. BPM
41. Song witter
42. Paste
43. Spin
44. Wire
45. Cream
46. Hip hop
47. Sturtter
48. Edge
49. Cub
50. King
51. Bill board

Evaluation

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Preliminary task- contents page