Photo position

This is my draft for my magazine picture. The picture is close up and shows attitude.
I haven't chosen a picture with any props has Demi Lovato is a well known pop star so the readers would already know that this is a music magazine.

Next I need to fix the colours for the masthead, cover line etc to make them stand out!

First plan for my magazine

This is the first draft of the plan for my magazine. I have used the Top of the Pops magazine as a model for my own. 

Magazine Reader

Name: Kayleigh Parker

Age: 16

Hobbies: Dancing, listening to music, going to the cinema and going to concerts

Favourite films: Never Say Never, Twilight, Mean girls, Wild Child

Tv Programmes: Hannah Montana, Victorious, ICarly, Keeping up with the Kardashians, Sam&Cat

Music Tastes: The Wanted, Justin Bieber, Kingsland Road, Miley Cyrus.

Fashion Style: Girly, smart yet casual, Individual, High street fashion

Likes: Chocolate, films, movies, Summer, The Wanted

Dislikes: Winter, liquorice, KFC


Employment status: Unemployed

                             

My magazine ideas

Target Audience:
I have decided that my target audience for my magazine will be aged 13-17.

Gender:
The gender for my magazine will be teenage girls.

Social Group:
My magazine will appeal to young girls in a social group that enjoys pop music, gossip and advice.

Genre of music:
The magazine will feature artists and music from a pop background.

Types of artists/bands that will appear:
I will have pop/pop rock artists appearing in my magazine.

Distribution or Readership:
I am using Top of the pops magazine as an example of what I will base my magazine on.
This an example of the readership that 'Top of the pops' magazine gets each month. At it's peak it had 160,000 readers.

Target Audience

The magazines I have chosen are Top of the Pops and Kerrang! These magazines are very different in a lot of things including their target audience.

The target audience for Top of the pops magazine is aimed at young girls/teens aged 11-17 that have an interest in pop music, fashion and gossip.

Whereas Kerrang's target audience is very different. Kerrang is a music magazine which concentrates on the more punk rock genre of music, its target audience is 13-20 year olds and of mainly male readers.

Conventions of a Music Magazine slideshow

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Conventions of a music magazine

Research of music magazine

Conventions

These are some of the conventions I have researched

• Mastheads
• Lead Cover Line
• Barcode and Prices
• Image

Second magazine cover

The second magazine I chosen was 'Kerrang'. This is another music magazine that was named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the noise made when smashing an electric guitar, Kerrang! The main target audience for Kerrang magazine are 15-19 year olds who are interested in rock/punk/grunge/indie music. 

Music Magazines

This is the first magazine I chosen, it features a range of different artists and the genre for this magazine is pop. The target audience for this magazine are young girls/pre teens who are interested in fashion, gossip and pop music in the 11-16 age range.