Billboard ....

Q magazine :D

Today i decided to look at Q magazine and analyse the typical codes and conventions of a music magazine. I went on Q website and used one of their past front covers. By doing this it showed me what i will need to include on my front cover.

Typical Conventions of a music magazine

•  Masthead in the top right hand corner
• Date and Issue number
• Main image takes up most of page
• Main image is central
• Cover lines around the image

Core Buyer!

My core buyer for my magazine is teenagers and young adults, male and females aged between 16 to 20. They have a interest in music and would like to explore the music industry further by buying a magazine. They will be from a working to middle class background and because the majority will be students they will have a limited budget and will have less money to spend of luxury items such as music magazines.

Focus Group ..

Today i thought that i would conduct a focus group to see why my target audience aren't buying music magazines. In my Focus group i picked a random sample who had stated that they did not read music magazines. The findings of my focus group was that my target audience don't buy a music magazine is because there isn't a magazine that fits the genre of music that they like. I also went on to ask if there was a magazine that covered their genre of music would they buy it and they all answered that they would buy a new magazine.

                                   My Focus group....

Questionnaire results...

Today i collected my questionnaires and turned the information into pie charts to make it easier to analyse my results, My results from my questionnaires showed that ...

1. 
   
   My target audience are young adults male and female aged 16- 20.
2. 
   
   The price of my magazine will be between £1.01 and £2.00 which is because my target audience won't have much money to spend on luxury goods.
3. 
   
   I also found that my target audience buy music magazine yearly so there isnt much competition in the market.The main competition is "Q" magazine as they are they only magazine that has a mix of genres. 
4. 
   
   Also 54% of my partisipants said that they don't read a magazine i am going to do further research in to why my target market don't read a music magazine. "Indie" is the most popular genre within my target audience.

My customer profile is

Males and females between 16 - 20, Still study at school, collage or university.

Limited income but with a likely for a mix of genres.

NME :D

I chose to do some research into NME in how they attract their audience...

My Questionnaire

This is my questionnaire, i added pictures to make it more interesting for the partisipants, I added a column down the right hand side which makes it easier for me to collect all the information.

Questionnaire time .....

Today i completed my questionnaire i used triangulation so a mixture of open and closed questions to get more of insight into what my target audience should be. I conducted 30 questionnaires getting a range of different ages to widen my resarch. I am then going to convert my finding into graphs and tables to analyse them.

Bloggingggg ....

Wow we're four weeks into are G321 coursework task and its flown by!. Since were four weeks in today i thought i would review blogging, it is so easy to use the blog and it is great to keep updating regularly. When you log on to your blog it is easy to concentrate as you dont have any adverts popping up. Its interactive which makes it fun to complete the coursework. I then thought about all the different ways i could show evidence of my coursework on my blog i thought of some interesting ways to with my media class i hope to show these in my blog from now on.

Strengths of blogging

• It is a interesting way to write up what your doing
• You can reflect your personality
• More fun than writing on paper
• Gives more of a chance to  be creative
• Shows different ways of displaying text

Weaknesses of blogging

• Might be hard to access for some people
• Can be unseen unless advertised
• Can take a long time to design