MixMag magazine is a dance music magazine launched in 1982 that targets males aged 16 and over. It has an annual circulation of around 20,000. The magazine's cover features American DJ Skrillex riding an atom bomb, suggesting his dubstep music has blown up worldwide. The cover lines promote DJ names and a New Year's party guide contained in the magazine. In contrast, Top of the Pops magazine targets teenage girls with pink and purple colors and content about boy bands and celebrities rather than electronic music genres. The document proposes a new magazine called 120 focused on deep and tech house music around 120 bpm, using neutral colors but bright ones for feature stories to attract a similar audience to MixMag.

1. Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Ken Ishii

2. Do a mood board of different
music magazines…..

3. Place a music magazine cover here, select
one which will have a similar target
audience to your own

4. Title of Magazine
 MixMag magazine is based
on Dance music which was
launched in 1982, their target
audience is people aged 16
and over and their readers
are mostly males.
Their annual circulation is
around 20,000,.

5. Masthead & Selling Line
The title is called "MixMag". This
suggests hat the magazine includes
a wide range of genres for its
reader, which means that they can
attract a larger audience. The
colour white suggests that the
magazine is for both genders as
stereotypically, white is a neutral
colour which appeals to everyone.
Also it makes the title stand out
against the orange background.
They also animate the DJ Skrillex to
give abit of humour to the
magazine.

6. Main Image
On the main image, Skrillex is
featured riding a US atom
bomb, this suggests that Skrillex
is an american Dub step artists
and he has blew up all around
the world and made Dub step
big. At the time of this magazine
was released, Skrillex has just
been recognized by everyone
around the world.

7. Cover Lines & Main Sells
 Here they feature a range of Dj's names that
are included in the magazine and New years
party guide are told inside the magazine. The
names of DJ's are made to stand out with a
black background behind the font which
suggests they are popular and the genre of
them are club/party which will appeal to the
target audience.

8. Comparisons
 In order to find a different magazine
to mixmag, I have picked Top of The
Pops magazine as this magazine is
aimed at the female gender, they
have used a lot of (steroypically)
femine colours like pink and purple.
This magazine is aimed at young
teenage girls unlike mixmag. The
topics in this magazine is a lot
different to mix mag too as this
magazine talks about boy bands,
catwalk photos, Cher Lloyd’s life
story.

9. Ideas for your own magazine
 I have different ideas for my
magazine, I would like to base
my magazine on Deep and
Tech house, similar to mixmag
but not as broad as mixmag, I
mainly use neutral colours for
my magazine but I will use
bright colours for the main
stories I would like to attract for
my target audience. The name I
would like to use for my
magazine is 120, the reason I
have picked that name is
because deep and tech house
is 120 bpm.

10. Ideas for your own magazine
 I have different ideas for my
magazine, I would like to base
my magazine on Deep and
Tech house, similar to mixmag
but not as broad as mixmag, I
mainly use neutral colours for
my magazine but I will use
bright colours for the main
stories I would like to attract for
my target audience. The name I
would like to use for my
magazine is 120, the reason I
have picked that name is
because deep and tech house
is 120 bpm.