Toby Jackson proposes creating a music fanzine targeted at 16-24 year olds. Research will include surveying the target audience about desired content and interviewing a 16-24 year old for inclusion. The fanzine will include a front cover, contents page, back cover, and inside pages on the biggest artists of 2021. Progress will be evaluated through a production log and final PowerPoint explaining the process and skills gained. Primary research sources will include an audience survey and interview conducted by the author.

1. Proposal
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Student Name and Number:
Toby Jackson
Project proposal title and date:
Music Fanzine. 30/9/21
Main area of activity
Fanzine
Target Audience
16 – 24-year-olds is my primary age demographic target audience, 12 – 15-year-olds is my
secondary age demographic target audience. This is because it is a music-based fanzine, and this
age group might be familiar with the topics I am writing about as it is about the biggest artists,
whereas an older audience may enjoy music from years ago.
Rationale:
Throughout my first year I have made a music video, an adventure animation game and a film
magazine, trailer and advert for my FMP, I have also done extra things after the FMP in the last
half term of the year on Photoshop and PremierePro, including a short film, album cover,
advertising etc. Doing a film magazine is like this fanzine factual topic despite them being less
official because they are fan magazines, I am used to doing front covers, back covers etc on
Photoshop so that should help me when I come to produce this fanzine.
Project Concept:
I will need to do research on fanzines, front covers, back covers, contents pages, what’s inside,
how they’re layed out etc, and also, I’ll need to do more primary research for my audience by
creating surveys with questions for my target audience to answer (around 16 – 24-year-olds). I’ll
do secondary research on music fanzines or just the traditional fanzine layout to see what mine
should be like. My project concept is a music fanzine, this will be about the biggest artists of 2021,
I will ask my audience what contents they would like to see inside the magazine, such as facts,
information, statistics etc, and as this is our factual project, I will be interviewing somebody too, this
will be a written interview in one of my inside pages. My interview will be with somebody within my
primary age demographic (16 – 24) because this could make it relatable to my target audience. My
fanzine will include a front cover, contents page, back cover and inside pages.
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed:
I will evaluate the work by doing a production log and write about what I do every day, and I will do
a PowerPoint after and explain what I did, this will help me improve my skills for future projects

2. Proposal
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Bibliography:
Minimumof 7 sourcesthatyou coulduse for yourproject.These canbe existingproducts,used
for inspiration.Orbookslookedatforthe theoryresearch.Make sure youget a mixture of books
and products.Limityourself tonomore than 2 websites if possible(youcanputGoogle Booklinks
like BooksonNeil’sToolbox). Considergalleries,books,magazines, journals, films,computer
games, websites,blogs,socialmedia, radioprogrammes,archive material,podcasts etc.
Thismust include atleast2 primarysourcesof information- tweakSource 1and 2 to fit.
Alphabetise the list whencomplete (highlightthesourcesand click the SORT button- ithasan A-Z
and an arrowpointing down on it).
1. Your, Name. (2019) Target Audience Research Survey (conducted on DATE)
2. Interviewees, Name. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on DATE)
3. Source 3
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Week Specific Tasks
1 Production [in/out?]  Front cover and contents page complete
2 Production [in/out?]  Back cover and work on the insidepages
3 Production [in/out?]  Do the interview and write a page about it
4 Production [in/out?]  Finish insidepages and make sure everything is
complete