FINAL front cover for my music magazine - slightly edited.

Evaluative Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Shellie and Rhinnaon. Both are 16 years old and enjoy pop, chart music. They are very socialable and go out reguarly. They are particular fans of the boy band JLS and love their music. They have downloaded every single song that JLS have released and often attend concerts in which they are performing. They are also very keen on The Wanted and love their style of music. Both of these girls are very fashionable, alike the boy bands and would like to have boyfriends who dress similarly to those members of their favourite boy bands! They are very into other forms of media such as films, and go the cienma a lot together to check out the latest movies. Furthermore, they go out and buy movies to watch together, whenever they are not singing along together to their favourite boy bands.
My target audience for my magazine would be girls like these, who enjoy popular chart music and are into the style of a boy band similar to JLS or The Wanted. My magazine targets these types of target audience, girls and boys aged from early to late teens.



Now meet Jordan. He, alike Shellie and Rhiannon, is very much into popular chart music, and reguarly throws parties featuring music from modern boy bands and other chart music that people like to dance to. He is very much in tune with new music, and likes to be completely up to date as well as catching up on the latest gossip within the music industry. He loves films, and his favourite TV shows are Friends, Scrubs, Hollyoaks, Mock The Week, and Outnumbered. Jordan is also very appreciative of a good singing voice and has a wide range of genres of music that he likes to listen to depending on his mood, although his favourite is most definately chart music.
Jordan would be my ideal target audience. He is 15 and likes to keep up to date with all the latest music, news, gossip, and upcoming events within music! These are all the things my magazine offers, as well as plenty more. The boy band on the font cover of my magazine and on my double page spread, would be ideal for Jordans favourite type of music. Jordan needs to fulfill his lust for the latest songs and future releases can be fed to him every two weeks through my magazine as well as competitions and chances to win tickets to live shows featuring his favourite artists! Jordan needs MB magazine!

Evaluative Question 3

This is my music magazine logo. It is bold, contrasting and fits with the purpose of the magazine. My inspiration for the logo came from Q music magazine. The red background and simple font really stood out and i wanted to try and achieve that effect in my own way. Furthermore, i was trying to find something that fit in with the genre of popular chart music and i thought this to be the most suited option. The MB logo, i hope would be unique and make the magazine known as MB magazine. Here is the logo for Q magazine for which i got the inspiration for mine:

As you can see, the design is fairly similar. I opted for a easier, simpler layout and idea, as that seems to be the most popular with Q magazine being my idol, and being so popular within the industry of music.

I believe my magazine to be able to be distributed nationwide, in all sorts of shops and distributors. Businesses renound for their magazine content such as WHSMITH would be ideal, and i believe it would appeal to the right target audience. Furthermore, local newsagents who are keen distributors of magazine of all genres, music sports etc, would find my magazine very suitable for their shelves. It appeals to those who are in touch with modern, chart music, so therefore I think that it can sell in just about any magazine distributor in the country!

Evaluative Question 2

My research was on modern boy bands. My front cover featured a slightly different approach to the normal style of a band like this. I did it in black and white, which would typically represent the style of a rock band. However, I felt that if I contrasted the colours well enough, it could stand out even more and jump out to a browser as something they were not expecting. I researched popular modern boy bands and noted their style, props, costumes, setting, facial expressions etc on photo shoots and gained inspiration from more than one band to broaden my variety. Other bands i used were JLS who are again, a popular modern boy band:




I also have a video link that demonstrates the kind of music the band in my front cover would be producing as well as other elements, such as features of their style and the way they dress, which as i mentioned earlier, would be considered 'Preppy':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcBWDCBldY

Evaluative Question 1

This is my first evaluative question. It evaluates my themes and layouts of my contents page. The front cover and double page spread follow a similar layout and I have demonstrated and shown where my inspiration and ideas came from, through neatly displaying and explaining with evidence, my choices for my music magazine.

This is my final piece for my contents page. I have edited certain parts of my first draft of the layout, and improved them. Furthermore, I have added more image to enhance how the readers takes in the information and to enable the magazine to stand out even more! In comparison to my first draft, it lacked the boldness and style needed for a contents. However, now I feel that i have achieved the desired effect.. As well as including some interviews and gossip from some star performers!!

This is my music magazine contents page so far. I have done all the basic layout features and main features. I have also added an advertisement in the bottom right hand corner, as this is what a lot of magazine contents features. The title, logo etc are at the top of the page and stand out. I have vaired the font styles (Bold, Italic) and sizes.