Final Double Page Spread:

Final Contents page:

Final Magazine Cover:

As part of understanding what my target audience is looking for I have created a questionaire (i have included the results aswell):

1) Are You Male or Female?
Male: 7 2nd Most Popular
Female: 18 Most Popular

2) How old are you?
11: 5 2nd Most Popular
12: 4 3rd Most Popular
13: 16 Most Popular

3) What Music Genres are you interested in?
Pop: 14 3rd Most Popular
Hip Hop: 13
R ‘n’ B: 19 Most Popular
Rock: 15 2nd Most Popular
Classical: 2
Rap: 7
Punk: 1
Dance: 10
Garage: 6
Indie: 6
Musical/soundtrack: 1
Metal: 1
Alternative: 2

4) How much money do you get in a week?
£150: 1
£10: 6 Most Popular
£30: 2 3rd Most Popular
£3: 1
£20: 3 2nd Most Popular
£15: 1
£25: 1
£5: 2 3rd Most Popular
£12: 1
£1: 1

5) What would you like your magazine to be called?
POP!: 5 2nd Most Popular
Pip Pop: 2
Popsicle: 4 3rd Most Popular
Krange: 0
Best of Pop: 0
Pop Planet: 0
Pop World: 6 Most Popular
Planet Pop: 2
Never Mind The Metal!: 0
Your Jam!: 0
Popiylola: 0
Pop Party: 0

6) How many pages do you think is suitable for a music magazine?
1 – 20: 4 3rd Most Popular
20 – 30: 16 Most Popular
30 – 40: 5 2nd Most Popular

7) If you had to pick a colour scheme, what three colours would you pick?
Pink: 10 2nd Most Popular
Red: 5
Green: 6
Purple: 5
Silver: 1
Blue: 16 Most Popular
Orange: 7 3rd Most Popular
Yellow: 5
Black: 7 3rd Most Popular
White: 7
White: 2
Gold: 1

8) In a music magazine what topics would you like to be covered?
New Song Releases: 20 Most Popular
Upcoming Concerts: 9
Album reviews: 14 3rd Most Popular
Celeb Gossip: 17 2nd Most Popular

9) How often would you like your magazine to be issued?
Weekly: 14 Most Popular
Monthly: 6 2nd Most Popular
Termly: 0

10) How much would you pay for a music magazine?
80P: 4 3rd Most Popular
£1.50: 9 Most Popular
£3.00: 2
£1: 5 2nd Most Popular
£2.50: 3
£4.00 or more: 0

11) In what ways do you like to interact with the magazine?
Puzzles and Quizzes: 13 Most Popular Write In Page: 11 2nd Most Popular
Competitions: 13 Most Popular
Help and Advice: 7 3rd Most Popular

12) How many images would you like to see on the front cover?
1: 1
3: 17 Most Popular
5 or more: 6 2nd Most Popular
2: 3 3rd Most Popular
4: 2

13) Who would you want your magazine to be aimed at (age)?
Me: 2
9: 1
11: 2
13: 4 2nd Most Popular
15: 4 2nd Most Popular
teens: 9 Most Popular
8: 1
10: 1
12: 3 3rd Most Popular
14: 4 2nd Most Popular
16: 1
Adults: 1

14) What are you likely to read out of the following?
Single Review: 10 2nd Most Popular
Upcoming concerts: 4 3rd Most Popular
Artist interview: 13 Most Popular

15) For a music magazine competition what prize would you most likely enter the competition for?
Concert Tickets: 14 Most Popular
Award ceremony tickets: 4 3rd Most Popular
I pods (latest music technology): 1
Meet music band: 1
Signed music goodies: 12 2nd Most Popular
Instruments: 2
Record Deal: 1

16) Are you likely to buy a music magazine if it offered free gifts?
Yes: 16 Most Popular
No: 2 2nd Most Popular

17) Would you want your magazine to be based on just music or include other stuff such as fashion?
Yes: 14 Most Popular
No: 6 2nd Most Popular

18) If yes what other subjects?
Sports: 1 3rd Most Popular
Celeb Gossip: 6 2nd Most Popular
Stories: 1 3rd Most Popular
Fashion: 10 Most Popular
Star Signs: 1 3rd Most Popular
Embarrassing moments: 1 3rd Most Popular

19) Should anything else be included?
Song Lyrics: 1 Most Popular

Planning is estential in creating a music magazine. From my target audience i researched the sort of music magazines they would look at which are currently available on the market. One of them being ''Top of the Pops''. To understand more of what the target audience would look at, i looked at ''Top of the Pops'' and analysed it. I have attached the image of the front cover to show the initial idea of what has been analysed:

Analysis of Top of the Pops contents

One unique factor of TOTP (Top of the Pops) is that the contents page is the front cover. This may be because the target audience of TOTP is a young audience and a contents page will not come across as interesting, also by using the front cover as the contents it will allow the reader to find there top stories very easily.

Mise – en – scene
Costume: casual boy clothes, laid back, boy band
Lighting: normal lighting, bright
Actors: Boy band, happy, smiling, posy, casual standing
Make – up: no make up, normal, natural
Props: none
Setting: none

Music Artist Profiles
‘OMG! It’s the Jonas Brothers! Why the Camp Rock boys are ready to date you!’, exciting, hearts (love), school girl crushes. These are all elements on the page that would indicate what the target audience is, in this case young teenage girls.

Layout and style of language
Informal, conversational, loud, talking to reader, teen talk, quite cramped, pictures close to each other, speech bubbles, teenage humour, image over masthead, website and institution very clear, shows theres are not a lot of pages which is appealing to a young reader.

Any Music Genre conventions?
Pop music – Jonas Brothers, Leona Lewis, McFly. Other genres like R ‘n’ B and Hip Hop – Rihanna and Chris Brown also includes musicals such as High School Musical (Zac Efron) and Camp Rock. Also reality competitions contestants, Leona Lewis and Leon Jackson.

Special Features and Articles in this edition
‘OMG! It’s the Jonas Brothers, Exclusive pics – 24 hours with Zac!, McFly exclusive ‘’Our Hidden Heartache’’

Regular sections of the magazine
Your instant makeover, 33 new bargains!, Quiz! Will you be friends forever?

Any other interesting additions?
Cute! Who’s the baby? – Asking questions, showing us a picture but not telling us who it is (persuasive), normal reality pictures of celebs but turning it into a story: Eew, Rihanna! It must be love!

How does your analysis reveal the magazine’s target reader profile?
Use of language is younger ‘OMG!’ teenage ‘code’ talk and from the use of colours which are bright and bold. Also there is a picture of a cute dog and speech bubbles which would look appealing to a younger audience. The artists on the front cover are artists who are most popular amongst young girls such as The Jonas Brothers and McFly.

What overall techniques are used to make you read the complete magazine?
USP’s such as ’33 new bargains’ also it asks questions such as ‘who’s the baby ‘in which you would have to read the magazine to find out. Also by telling us there is ‘exclusive Pics’ this is a way of giving the reader the impression that you lust read and look.

Before starting the music magazine task, we had learnt about the general connotations of music magazine covers. To show my understanding i have annotated a magazine cover:

Presentation for Evaluation of music magazine