1. TASKS 4&5
Magazine
Research
Austen Mahon

2. Q Magazine
 Q Magazine is an alternative music
magazine, which is published monthly in the
UK. It's publishing company is Bauer Consumer
Media, and was first published in 1986.
 Q Magazine is perhaps the magazine that I
want to emulate for my magazine. This is due
to the more ‘grown up’ and formal nature of
the magazine. This is connoted in the rich red
house style, classy logo, featured artists, and
the contents of the articles, which are aimed
to a more devoted musical enthusiast.

3. Front Covers
 Hereare a variety of front covers that
have been used for Q Magazine. Note
the bold image, and uniformity.

4. Contents page
 Hereare a variety of contents pages used
in Q Magazine.

5. Articles
 Hereare some articles/double page
spreads that have been in Q Magazine.

6. Publishers
 Thetwo main published which could
publish my final magazine are: Bauer
Media Group, and IPC. On the next slide is
a comparison of the two, outlining their
strengths and weaknesses.

7. Bauer Media Group IPC
Bauer Media group publish The only music magazine
two of the UK’s largest music published by IPC is NME.
magazines: Kerrang and Q NME focuses on indie/rock.
Magazine. Considering Q My magazine will be indie-
Magazine is perhaps the pop, meaning that there
magazine I am attempting may be some competition,
to emulate style wise, Bauer but as rock and pop are
Media group may not be different, this is what may
the best choice, as they separate them. The indie
already have a magazine part may make people
dedicated to the audience consider them as the same
that mine is. though.
Overall, I believe IPC is the more suitable publisher for my final
magazine. This is down to the fact that they only have one
music magazine, and that Bauer Media Group already publish
a magazine similar to mine. This means that IPC will be open to
a new market, with the introduction of my magazine.

8. Ideas for my own magazine
 Name
 Create
 Declaration – (a statement)
 Symbol
 Clef – (a musical symbol used to indicate
the pitch of written notes)
 Staff – (what the notes on sheet music are
presented on)
 Note

9. Ideas for my own magazine
 Genre
 Indie
 Indietronica – (eg: LCD Soundsystem)
 Indie-pop
 Rock
 Indie folk – (eg: Mumford and Sons)

10. Ideas for my own magazine
 Articles
 Interview
 Behind the scenes
 Gossip
 Charts (Christmas charts)
 Fashion of artist