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This document provides an overview and guidelines for analyzing music press publications like magazines and websites. It introduces the CLAIR framework for examining codes and conventions, language, audience, institutions, and representation. It discusses exploring features, genres, design elements, portrayed audiences, funding sources, regulations, and how artists and other groups are depicted. The exam will ask students to analyze what appeals to audiences, create their own music publication for a specific demographic, and design/evaluate an element to appeal to that audience.
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The document provides an overview of key concepts for an exam on the music press, including language, institutions, audience, and representation. It discusses genres and conventions of print and online music publications and how their format, content, and design relate to their target audiences. It also addresses the ownership and financing of media institutions in the music industry, who comprises their audiences, and how the music press represents artists and influences listeners.
Key concepts
This document discusses key concepts related to music magazines, including their codes and conventions, target audience, representation of genres, and business models. It describes common front cover and contents page elements. It also explains that music magazines aim to entertain readers by providing reliable information on artists' lives, music, and tours through images, articles, and reviews. Their business models include advertising revenue, readership/subscriptions, and promotional partnerships to sustain audiences interested in the featured music genres.
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Task 1
A music magazine covers a specific music genre and provides entertainment, information, and advertising to readers within that genre. The magazine interviews artists, previews tours and new releases, includes reviews, photos, and ads to both engage and promote to readers who are listeners and artists of that genre.
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Task 1 magazine covers
This document provides an overview of the key elements typically found in music magazines. It discusses that music magazines aim to entertain, advertise, and inform readers about a specific music genre. Content includes interviews, reviews, tour dates, posters, and artist profiles. Images usually feature artists/bands, upcoming events, instruments, and merchandise. Other common features are a masthead, coverlines, barcode, date, price, and color scheme. These standard elements make the magazines easily recognizable and help establish their professional brand.
Question4
The document discusses the target audience for an indie rock magazine. The primary audience would be males and females aged 15-21 from socioeconomic groups D and E. The secondary audience includes others interested in indie rock music. Typical indie rock listeners enjoy bands like Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The 1975. They have a distinct style reflected in their clothing choices and preferred shops. In their spare time, indie rock fans often attend concerts and play instruments like guitar. They also enjoy adventure and mystery films and TV shows.
Evaluation question 2
The magazine represents several social groups including rockers, emos, chavs, hipsters, skaters, and indie music fans. It targets people interested in indie and rock music, who attend concerts and festivals, enjoy listening to music frequently, and want exclusive information about bands. While the people featured are mainly white, the target audience is not limited by race. Both males and females are represented. The magazine mainly targets middle class audiences who can afford it, but not exclusively, as rock and indie appeal to a wide range of social classes. The target age is teens and young adults aged 14-25, but other ages are not excluded. The magazine does not specify whether people with disabilities are represented or not.
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Key concepts
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Task 1
A music magazine covers a specific music genre and provides entertainment, information, and advertising to readers within that genre. The magazine interviews artists, previews tours and new releases, includes reviews, photos, and ads to both engage and promote to readers who are listeners and artists of that genre.
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Task 1 magazine covers
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Question4
The document discusses the target audience for an indie rock magazine. The primary audience would be males and females aged 15-21 from socioeconomic groups D and E. The secondary audience includes others interested in indie rock music. Typical indie rock listeners enjoy bands like Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The 1975. They have a distinct style reflected in their clothing choices and preferred shops. In their spare time, indie rock fans often attend concerts and play instruments like guitar. They also enjoy adventure and mystery films and TV shows.
Evaluation question 2
The magazine represents several social groups including rockers, emos, chavs, hipsters, skaters, and indie music fans. It targets people interested in indie and rock music, who attend concerts and festivals, enjoy listening to music frequently, and want exclusive information about bands. While the people featured are mainly white, the target audience is not limited by race. Both males and females are represented. The magazine mainly targets middle class audiences who can afford it, but not exclusively, as rock and indie appeal to a wide range of social classes. The target age is teens and young adults aged 14-25, but other ages are not excluded. The magazine does not specify whether people with disabilities are represented or not.
Evaluation Question 4
- The target audience for the R&B music magazine is males aged 15-30 from lower social classes (C2, D, E) and primarily black ethnicity.
- The genre of R&B attracts this audience as the lyrics discuss mature topics from a male perspective and sometimes reference backgrounds from the lower classes.
- Images used in the magazine include an expensive jacket worn by the black male model to portray wealth and status, important to the aspirational audience, and money. The background was edited to black and white to make the model stand out.
- Cover lines reference popular R&B artists and ask questions to intrigue readers into learning more inside the magazine.
Audience research pp
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Task 1 magazine covers
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Genre research
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Initial ideas for my music magazine
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Final presentation
This document outlines plans for a magazine called "Talk Alt Rap" that will cover alternative British rap music. It will include articles about artists' personal lives and opinions, information about upcoming performances, and interviews. It will be distributed both physically and digitally. The target audience is 14-25 year old British males across all socioeconomic classes. Marketing will involve social media promotion and posters to raise awareness of the magazine and attract customers.
Mind map
The document discusses ideas for a music magazine including potential masthead names like SAS, Rhythm, and Streetwise. It proposes a color scheme of red, white, and grey inspired by XXL magazine to make text stand out. It also recommends including social media links and a website address on each page for brand identity purposes, keeping the color scheme and font style consistent across the magazine.
Task 1
This document provides information about the typical features and content of music magazines. It discusses what a music magazine is, the types of content that can be found within including interviews, reviews and news. It also describes common images such as bands, concerts and album covers. Features that are consistent across music magazines are then outlined, such as a visual style using many images and bold titles, as well as an informal genre-specific language. Two magazine covers are analyzed to determine their genre and target audience.
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This document is a log book for a student named Miguel Pita Joao completing a preliminary task to create a music magazine for their media studies course. The log book details Miguel's research process, including exploring the genre of rap music to appeal to a wide audience, conventions of magazine design like mastheads and barcodes, and theories of audience targeting. Miguel analyzes the unique selling point of the existing Vibe magazine and notes its focus on a main picture and strap line. Research is presented on the original publishers of Vibe, including its founding by Quincy Jones and partnership with Time Inc.
Final decision
The target audience for the magazine is male and female teenagers and young adults aged 15-21. This age range was chosen because the creator is 16 and wants to base the magazine on what their peers are interested in.
The magazine will focus on genres like house music, pop music, drum and bass, and R&B. These genres were the most popular based on a survey completed by questionnaire.
Research done includes looking at successful current music magazines, conducting a survey questionnaire to determine the target audience and genres of interest, and planning photo shoots and editing to feature artists in a way that conveys their personality to readers.
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1) Price the magazine at £4.20 based on most people being willing to pay between £3-5.
2) Publish the magazine monthly as most readers purchase magazines monthly or rarely.
3) Include interviews, previews, album/artist reviews, and unsigned artists as the main content.
4) Feature well-known artists on the front cover as this was identified as the main attraction.
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Initial introductory task 1
A music magazine provides information about a specific music genre and entertainment for fans of that genre. It typically includes interviews, reviews of new releases and live performances, charts, and competition. Images would feature artists, album covers, concerts, merchandise, and instruments. Key elements of all music magazine covers include the masthead, main image, barcode, coverlines describing the content, and consistent color scheme. The example magazine cover is identified as a pop music magazine based on the featured artist, bright color palette, and mention of "Pop's big takeover." The target audience is said to be primarily teenage and adult females.
My Pitch
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What is a music magazine
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Evaluation Question 4
- The target audience for the R&B music magazine is males aged 15-30 from lower social classes (C2, D, E) and primarily black ethnicity.
- The genre of R&B attracts this audience as the lyrics discuss mature topics from a male perspective and sometimes reference backgrounds from the lower classes.
- Images used in the magazine include an expensive jacket worn by the black male model to portray wealth and status, important to the aspirational audience, and money. The background was edited to black and white to make the model stand out.
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In media studies, audience refers to consumers of media texts such as films, magazines, and television programs. There are various ways to segment and classify audiences, including socio-economic factors, psychographic profiling of attitudes and lifestyles, geographic location, demographics, and psychographics that examine aspirations. Analyzing magazines like NME and Metal Hammer involves determining their core buyers, whether they target a niche or mass audience, how they appeal to different groups through content and opportunities, their tone of address to encourage identification, how they position their brand, and describing their brand values and personality.
Task 1 magazine covers
The document discusses the key elements typically found in music magazines. It explains that music magazines aim to entertain, advertise, and inform readers about a specific music genre. Content usually includes interviews, reviews, tour dates, posters, and artist profiles. Common images are of artists/bands, upcoming events, instruments, and merchandise. Features to expect are articles on artists, genre-specific language, publication frequency and cost. All magazines typically have a masthead, coverlines, barcode, date, price, and color scheme. These standard features help identify the magazine and make it legally compliant.
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Initial ideas for my music magazine
The document outlines initial ideas for a music magazine focused on heavy metal, rock, and indie rock genres. The magazine would come out weekly, cost £2.20, and include features like competitions, new music spotlights, exclusive content, and top 10 band lists. Each issue would include articles such as interviews, event guides, concert reviews, and quizzes. The target audience is people ages 16-24 of mixed gender. Issues are planned to be between 50-60 pages in length.
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This document outlines plans for a magazine called "Talk Alt Rap" that will cover alternative British rap music. It will include articles about artists' personal lives and opinions, information about upcoming performances, and interviews. It will be distributed both physically and digitally. The target audience is 14-25 year old British males across all socioeconomic classes. Marketing will involve social media promotion and posters to raise awareness of the magazine and attract customers.
Mind map
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Task 1
This document provides information about the typical features and content of music magazines. It discusses what a music magazine is, the types of content that can be found within including interviews, reviews and news. It also describes common images such as bands, concerts and album covers. Features that are consistent across music magazines are then outlined, such as a visual style using many images and bold titles, as well as an informal genre-specific language. Two magazine covers are analyzed to determine their genre and target audience.
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Log book
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Final decision
The target audience for the magazine is male and female teenagers and young adults aged 15-21. This age range was chosen because the creator is 16 and wants to base the magazine on what their peers are interested in.
The magazine will focus on genres like house music, pop music, drum and bass, and R&B. These genres were the most popular based on a survey completed by questionnaire.
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Magazine Questionnaire
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1) Price the magazine at £4.20 based on most people being willing to pay between £3-5.
2) Publish the magazine monthly as most readers purchase magazines monthly or rarely.
3) Include interviews, previews, album/artist reviews, and unsigned artists as the main content.
4) Feature well-known artists on the front cover as this was identified as the main attraction.
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Initial introductory task 1
A music magazine provides information about a specific music genre and entertainment for fans of that genre. It typically includes interviews, reviews of new releases and live performances, charts, and competition. Images would feature artists, album covers, concerts, merchandise, and instruments. Key elements of all music magazine covers include the masthead, main image, barcode, coverlines describing the content, and consistent color scheme. The example magazine cover is identified as a pop music magazine based on the featured artist, bright color palette, and mention of "Pop's big takeover." The target audience is said to be primarily teenage and adult females.
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The document outlines a pitch for a magazine focused on alternative rock music. The proposed magazine would cover obscure and unknown musicians to fill a gap in existing coverage of lesser known artists. It would have a dull, disheveled aesthetic to match the genre. The target audience includes music students, artists, and fans of independent music and art. Small independent publishers are identified as potential producers of the magazine.
What is a music magazine
A music magazine covers specific music genres and aims to entertain, inform, and advertise to listeners and artists within that genre. It contains content like tour dates, album and event reviews, artist interviews, giveaways, and profiles on artists. Images typically feature artists, upcoming events, studio sessions, instruments, merchandise, and branding consistent with the magazine's style. Music magazines are published monthly or fortnightly, use genre-specific language and imagery, and cost between £2.50-£4.50. They aim to persuade, entice, and relate to their target audience.
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Cambridge Technicals Media Level 3 - Unit 32 graphic design for media product...
I will present in the classroom. The classroom layout is:
[DIAGRAM OF CLASSROOM LAYOUT]
Equipment needed:
- Laptop
- Projector
- Speakers
Timings:
- 5 minutes to introduce myself and the brief
- 10 minutes to present initial ideas
- 10 minutes for client feedback
- 5 minutes to present revised ideas
- 10 minutes for focus group feedback
- 5 minutes to conclude
Total time: 45 minutes
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Body:
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This document summarizes key concepts related to music magazines, including their codes and conventions, audiences, expectations, representation of genres like indie music, and business institutions. It discusses how magazines attract and sustain audiences through covers, freebies, competitions, and social media. Magazines make money from both readers and advertisements. Their wider assets that help circulation include TV, radio, festivals, concerts, and merchandise. Institutions ensure sustained audiences through various business models that incorporate popular mediums like events and award shows.
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Music press exam prep
- 1. Media Studies Mock 2012 Music Press
- 2. Don’t forget your mate CLAIR (Balding) • C Codes and conventions • L media Language • A Audience • I Institutions • R Representation
- 3. Codes and Conventions • What kind of features do you expect to see in a music magazine/website? (charts/interviews/reviews/previews/news etc) • Are there different conventions for different genres of music? (hip- hop/rock/jazz/electronic etc)?
- 4. Media Language • Colours • Fonts (serif/sans-serif, modern, classic etc) • Images – this is an important one: how does the magazine/website represent the artists through the images chosen? • Language – also important. In this case we are looking at the way the artists are portrayed in the copy of the magazine/website
- 5. Audience • Don’t be SCAREd to give lots of detail: • Sex • Class • Age • Race • Education • What purpose do media products have in the lives of their audience? • Do they allow escape? Do they reflect the lives of the audience?
- 6. Institutions • Who publishes music magazines/websites? • What is the link between music magazines and websites? • Where does the money to publish music magazines/websites come from? • Who regulates the press in England? What about websites? • What rules about content do magazines and websites have to follow? How is this seen in the content of music magazines?
- 7. Representation • How are the artists portrayed? • What other groups of people or places are portrayed in the magazine/website? What messages are being sent out about them? • Look at: – Images – Copy
- 9. What the exam will actually ask you 1. Why does the music press still appeal to its audience? What does it offer them? What needs does it gratify? What uses does it have? 2. Create your own music magazine and accompanying website. Think about how it will appeal to a SPECIFIC audience. a) What will they want to read about? b) How will they recognise that it is speaking to them? c) What kinds of products might be successfully advertised to them? 3. You will need to design an element of your magazine/website – either the contents page or the homepage 4. You will then need to evaluate your own design – how will the choices you have made appeal to your stated audience