2. Target Audience
In order to find out what music teenagers
listen to I gave out questionnaires and
from results that were distributed from 30
difrent people I have found out that most
of the people I asked where Male, the age
group was about 16-18, the most popular
Genre of music was Hip Pop, the artists
they listen to where; Drake,Kanye West, 2
Chainz Eminem, One Direction, Avichi,
David Guetta Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande,
Calvin Harris Example. In addition the
results suggest that people look for the
latest news in magazines. 50% of people
said they bought music magazines and
would pay £1.00-£5.00
3. Typical Reader Profile
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Aged 16-18
Male
Still in full time education
An interest in Urban music
An Interest in Hip-Hop Music because I will basing my music magazine on
this genre of music
• An Interest in the upbeat rhythm to music because that is one of the key
elements to Hip-Hop music
• Someone who is “down to earth” and is “laid back”
4. Market Research
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue is magazine
specifically targeted for
teenage girls. However
the magazines that they
produce do not always
have the same music
genre. teen vogue has
other concepts beside
music such a blogs and
forums about fashion
and beauty.
We Love Pop
We love pop is a
magazine specifically
targeted for those with
a interest in Pop music.
In addition the
magazine suggests the
target audience are
teenagers as there are
many teenage idols and
Tom Daily who isn't
even a singer in order
to widen their
audience.
Vibe
Vibe is a music and
entertainment magazine
that features RnB and
Hip-Pop. Unlike “We
love Pop” and “teen
vogue” vibe isn't
specifically targeted for
teenagers.
NME
NME is a magazine
which has the latest
music news, reviews
,gossip and band
memorabilia. NME has a
wide range of music
genres however the
magazine mainly targets
men ages 17-30.
5. Conventions
Images
Music magazines tend to mainly have one major music artist as the cover to
represent the magazine however some magazines like “we love pop“ have various
music artists with various sized images.
Fonts
In terms of fonts music magazines tend to have really big sized letters which are
mainly bold and white. In addition some magazines such as “Vibe” use custom
made fonts.
Colour/Theme
Music magazines tend to have a certain background colours/themes. Most of the
time the music artist will be in the cover image and wearing clothes that match the
background colour.
Layout
In most music magazines there will be a music artist or music artists in the middle,
the title on the top and additional information overlapping the artist/s. In terms of
contents pages music magazines like Hip-Hop and RnB magazines seem to have a
image of a relevant music artist and then the contents in really small writing in
either the left or right hand side, however for pop music magazines the contents
pages tend to have a series of images referring to the contents.
6. Analysis of 2 other existing product’s front covers
The layout of this magazine consists of
the title being at the top, The music
artist Drake in the middle and
additional content inside the magazine
outside and overlapping Drake.
The background colour of this
magazine is black and Drake is also
wearing a black coloured t shirt
because most music magazines tend
to have the clothing of the music
artist matching the colour of the
background .
In terms of font
“Vibe” has used
a custom made
font. The colour
of the letters are
white in order to
contrast with
the background
and the size of
the letters are
really big and
bold in order to
create impact.
This is a Hip-Hop
magazine however it
isn't specific to teens.
Teenagers tend to
listen to rappers such
as Drake because he is
fairly young and
successful therefore
he is the cover image
of this music
magazine.
This Pop magazine
was made by “WE
LOVE POP” .Their
target audience are
teenagers as this
magazine contains a
range of singers and
even teen idols
such as Tom Daily in
order to attract
teenagers to the
magazine.
In terms of font the letters are a
medium size. The colour of the
letters are black in order to
contrast pink border.
The background
colour of the is
white as it doesn’t
need to match the
colour of the cover
image as there is
more than one
person.
The layout of this magazine has 3 people as the
cover image near the right centre, the title in a
speech bubble and near the top left and parts of
the content inside the magazine over lapping the
music artists.
7. Analysis of 2 existing product’s contents pages
The target audience
is about 15-20
The layout of the
contents page of this
magazine consists of
Usher near the right
side and on the left
hand side with 7
features of the
magazine.
The Genre of this
music magazine is
RnB therefore
there is a picture
of a RnB music
artist Usher.
The background
colour of this
magazine is a
faded grey.
As this is a pop music magazine
it is obvious it has a series of
images of pop music artists
and actors/other teen idols
because the target audience
for this magazine are
teenagers.
The contents page for
this music magazine
has a lot of images in
order to refer to the
contents. In terms of
layout the proper
contents are near the
bottom left, and the
title is at the top.
In terms of the background colour
it is blue, white and yellow and
you can barely see it as there are
so many images and writing
covering it.
8. Proposal
From my research my ideas for music magazine:
• The genre of music I will choose to base my music magazine will be Hip Pop because from the
results from my questionnaire Hip-Hop was the most popular and I also have and interest in
Hip Pop music.
• My music magazine will have bold, large, white letters for the title. The cover image will be of
someone with the background colour matching the colour of their clothing. I have these
ideas for my front cover of my music magazine because these are some of the main features
of Hip-Pop magazines.
• The name of music magazine will be “Zone” because I want to make the audience of my
music magazine seem as though they are in “their own zone” when reading my music
magazine.
