This document provides information for pre-producing a music magazine, including the target audience which is mainly young adults interested in popular music genres. It discusses the typical reader profile and compares the proposed magazine to similar existing products like NME and Vibe. It also analyzes conventions for music magazines, such as cover design elements like large artist images, eye-catching titles and contrasting colors. Initial proposals for the new magazine include revealing music leaks and promoting new artists.

1. Magazine Pre-production

2. Target Audience
• Target audience: Aimed at young adults
• Popular music such as: Rap, Hip-hop, Pop, Rock ect.
• Using ITunes we can see what songs are trending

3. Typical Reader Profile
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Ages: 16- 21+
Gender: Any
Race: Any
Economic grouping: Working class
Life style: Mainstreamers and Aspirers

4. Market research
• A similar product would be ‘NME.’
• The New Musical Express, popularly known by
initialism NME, created by Theodore
Smythson,

5. Conventions of music magazines
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Darker colours to attract a more male audience
Brighter colours to attract a wider spread audience
Having a music artist as main image on front page
Font that attracts the audience

6. Analysis of existing products
• I would try to make my magazine to be similar to products
such as ‘Vibe’, ‘Billboard’ or ‘Clash’
• I will conform to most conventions that include: colour, text
and imagery

7. Existing products

8. Analysis of cover
Large picture of star
Eye catching title
Contrasting colour
Subtitles highlighted
Emphasis on ‘DRAKE’

9. Proposal
• Some initial ideas are: to have a reveal of music leaks
and secrets; newly released albums and songs and
promotions to unnamed/ unsigned artists.
• A few names I have come up with are: Pulse, Control,
+, Sign