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The target audience for the media product, a metal music magazine, are metal music fans between the ages of 16+ that embrace the metal lifestyle. This includes wearing dark clothes like band merchandise, having long hair, attending concerts regularly. The magazine will provide stories, interviews and reviews that appeal to metal fans as well as free posters and CDs to attract buyers. Examples shown depict metal fans displaying stereotypical visual styles at concerts to illustrate the target demographic.
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The document outlines a student's plans for a music magazine called "Bass" focused on rock music and targeting teenage readers. Key details include setting the price at £2 and publishing monthly, planning features on new music, festivals and concerts. Sample pages include a front cover photo shoot, contents page with band portraits, and a double page spread interview layout.
Task 13 2
The target audience of the magazine "Moshpit" is males aged 16-25 who enjoy listening to music, spending time with friends outdoors, and attending music festivals and concerts. The magazine will have a dark color scheme, sans-serif fonts, and informal writing to appeal to this niche audience. It will include CD and concert reviews, features on new bands, and offer a free CD to readers to engage their interests in discovering new music. Maintaining the same visual design elements across issues will help build the magazine's brand identity.
Q4
This document provides a description of a 17-year-old girl named _____ who lives in Kent, England. She has a style characterized by dark colors like black and red, with leather and band t-shirts being common items of clothing. Her makeup is bold with black eyeliner and red or purple lipstick. She has multiple piercings and plans to get tattoos. She enjoys attending metal concerts and festivals during the summer. Her favorite store is Camden Market in London where she buys unusual clothing and accessories. She likes horror movies and listens to a variety of metal music from different time periods rather than popular music. The magazine described would appeal to her because it focuses on obscure and emerging metal artists.
Question 4
The target audience for this media product is teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15-25 who listen to metal music. This age group is most interested in metal compared to younger children or older adults. The magazine's color scheme and genre focus on metal music makes it appealing to this audience. While there is a female depicted on the cover, the magazine is aimed at both male and female metal fans. The magazine profiles a 17-year old female metalhead named Jenny as an example of their target audience. Jenny enjoys listening to metal bands and genres, watches horror movies, and would be interested in purchasing this magazine focused on metal music and culture.
Mood Board And Research
The document summarizes three music magazines - Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer - that focus on rock and metal genres. Kerrang! uses bold designs and colorful covers. It aims to be fun and promote concerts. Rock Sound has more serious covers and content but some humorous columns. It reviews various music styles. Metal Hammer also uses dark, bold cover images but has minimal text. It caters mainly to older metal and rock fans.
Question 4
The target audience for Lazarus Magazine would be males aged 18-40 who enjoy heavy metal music. Specifically, it would target fans in socioeconomic classes C1, C2, and D in order to appeal to both middle class and working class metal fans. It would also target female metal fans who are underrepresented in existing metal magazines. The magazine would feature articles, images, and advertisements that appeal to metal fans' interests in music, concerts, albums, musical instruments, and gaming to attract its target readership.
Audience profiles
The target audience for a rock music magazine is primarily young adults aged 16-34, with the median age being 24. Rock music is presented as a fun and youthful genre that appeals mainly to men, as most rock artists and bands are male-dominated. The magazine focuses on providing up-to-date information on artists and bands through features like interviews, posters, and details on tours and new albums. While some readers enjoy learning about their favorite acts, others feel magazines can be too predictable by focusing on the same topics across issues or only certain popular artists.
Genre of magazine.
The document discusses different music magazine genres and their visual styles. Rock magazines typically feature dark colors like black, grey, and red with guitars on the cover to indicate the genre. The artists are casually dressed in dark clothing. Pop magazines use pink colors and heart text suggesting celebrity gossip. Celebrities are smiling or pouting and wearing fashionable clothes. Gangster rap magazines are dominated by black artists in baggy, accessorized outfits with gold chains and sunglasses.
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The document outlines a student's plans for a music magazine called "Bass" focused on rock music and targeting teenage readers. Key details include setting the price at £2 and publishing monthly, planning features on new music, festivals and concerts. Sample pages include a front cover photo shoot, contents page with band portraits, and a double page spread interview layout.
Task 13 2
The target audience of the magazine "Moshpit" is males aged 16-25 who enjoy listening to music, spending time with friends outdoors, and attending music festivals and concerts. The magazine will have a dark color scheme, sans-serif fonts, and informal writing to appeal to this niche audience. It will include CD and concert reviews, features on new bands, and offer a free CD to readers to engage their interests in discovering new music. Maintaining the same visual design elements across issues will help build the magazine's brand identity.
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This document provides a description of a 17-year-old girl named _____ who lives in Kent, England. She has a style characterized by dark colors like black and red, with leather and band t-shirts being common items of clothing. Her makeup is bold with black eyeliner and red or purple lipstick. She has multiple piercings and plans to get tattoos. She enjoys attending metal concerts and festivals during the summer. Her favorite store is Camden Market in London where she buys unusual clothing and accessories. She likes horror movies and listens to a variety of metal music from different time periods rather than popular music. The magazine described would appeal to her because it focuses on obscure and emerging metal artists.
Question 4
The target audience for this media product is teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15-25 who listen to metal music. This age group is most interested in metal compared to younger children or older adults. The magazine's color scheme and genre focus on metal music makes it appealing to this audience. While there is a female depicted on the cover, the magazine is aimed at both male and female metal fans. The magazine profiles a 17-year old female metalhead named Jenny as an example of their target audience. Jenny enjoys listening to metal bands and genres, watches horror movies, and would be interested in purchasing this magazine focused on metal music and culture.
Mood Board And Research
The document summarizes three music magazines - Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer - that focus on rock and metal genres. Kerrang! uses bold designs and colorful covers. It aims to be fun and promote concerts. Rock Sound has more serious covers and content but some humorous columns. It reviews various music styles. Metal Hammer also uses dark, bold cover images but has minimal text. It caters mainly to older metal and rock fans.
Question 4
The target audience for Lazarus Magazine would be males aged 18-40 who enjoy heavy metal music. Specifically, it would target fans in socioeconomic classes C1, C2, and D in order to appeal to both middle class and working class metal fans. It would also target female metal fans who are underrepresented in existing metal magazines. The magazine would feature articles, images, and advertisements that appeal to metal fans' interests in music, concerts, albums, musical instruments, and gaming to attract its target readership.
Audience profiles
The target audience for a rock music magazine is primarily young adults aged 16-34, with the median age being 24. Rock music is presented as a fun and youthful genre that appeals mainly to men, as most rock artists and bands are male-dominated. The magazine focuses on providing up-to-date information on artists and bands through features like interviews, posters, and details on tours and new albums. While some readers enjoy learning about their favorite acts, others feel magazines can be too predictable by focusing on the same topics across issues or only certain popular artists.
Genre of magazine.
The document discusses different music magazine genres and their visual styles. Rock magazines typically feature dark colors like black, grey, and red with guitars on the cover to indicate the genre. The artists are casually dressed in dark clothing. Pop magazines use pink colors and heart text suggesting celebrity gossip. Celebrities are smiling or pouting and wearing fashionable clothes. Gangster rap magazines are dominated by black artists in baggy, accessorized outfits with gold chains and sunglasses.
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The target audience for the magazine INDEPENDENT will be 16-25 year olds, most of whom will be in education or working. They will be youthful, outgoing, and strive to be independent and successful. They will take pride in their appearance and like playful banter. More males than females will read the magazine, as they will be interested in indie rock music and have their own bands. These males will have tattoos, piercings, and an independent style. The target audience will be interested in genres like indie rock, rock and roll, heavy metal, and punk rock due to the relatable lyrics and enjoyable beats.
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Question2
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Question2
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Media reader profile
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Media magazine indie rock
The document discusses various aspects of indie rock music magazines. It provides details on several popular rock magazines including Kerrang!, NME, and Rolling Stone. For her own indie rock magazine, the author plans to target an audience of 17-25 year olds and feature an alternative or indie rock band on the cover. She also intends to make the front page busy like Kerrang! to attract readers, and use bold colors and headlines throughout the magazine.
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Evaluation
The target audience for the magazine would be young males and females aged 13 to 29 interested in alternative/punk rock music. This is evident from the magazine's dark color scheme featuring grey, red, white and blue which connote death, rebellion and mystery associated with rock genres. All six people profiled would appeal to the target audience as they display characteristics like tattoos, piercings, dyed hair and dark clothing that align with rock genre conventions. Their social media presence further confirms their interest in rock bands.
Analysis of classic rock
The front cover features an image of a rock artist, promotional text to attract buyers, and the magazine title. The contents page lists articles by band or topic and images. The double-page spread has large central images of a rock artist, the article title in a colorful drop cap, and the main article text.
Analysis of classic rock
The front cover features an image of a rock artist, promotional text to attract buyers, and the magazine title. The contents page lists articles by band or topic and images. The double-page spread has large central images of a rock artist, the article title, and first paragraph with a distinctive drop cap letter. These elements connect the magazine visually and in terms of consistent information about the rock music genre to engage the target audience of 30-50 year old rock music fans.
Audience research
The document analyzes media packs from Kerrang and Metal Hammer magazines to understand their target audiences. It finds that the typical reader is a 22-year-old male who plays guitar or is in a band, spends much of his time engaged in music activities, and relies on the magazines for industry news and information. The research suggests focusing content on up-to-date music information like gigs, albums, and careers, as well as advertising related products and television programs to appeal to readers.
Magazine plan (cover)
This is looking at the analyse of my media cover music magazine. My focuses being structure, colours used as well as pictures for ideas.
Music magazine pitch
The magazine pitch is for a heavy metal music magazine that will focus on lesser known and up-and-coming metal bands. While some popular bands will be covered, the magazine will primarily feature smaller bands to appeal to a niche audience of metal fans. It will be published monthly at a lower price point of £2-4 and aimed at students and young adults interested in rebellious music. The magazine will have a dark, stylized design to represent the genre.
caitlyn brennan
A music magazine covers a specific music genre, providing entertainment, advertisements, and information about that genre. Typical content includes song, album, and concert reviews and interviews. Common images are of artists, upcoming events, behind-the-scenes studio photos, and merchandise. General characteristics include a celebrity main image, colloquial language, and costs between £2.50-4.50. Key features shared by music magazines are a popular artist on the cover, a bold masthead, cover lines, and consistent color themes. These attract audiences and give the magazines structure and identity.
Music Mag Evaluation
This document summarizes a student's magazine evaluation project for their AS Media Studies course. The student created a magazine called "ROCK UK" focused on UK rock and metal acts. They used dark photography and layout inspired by other rock/metal magazines. Audience research showed that genre, photography, and design were important to the target audience of rock and metal fans. The student believes major retailers like WHSmith would be suitable distribution partners for the commercial magazine. Overall, the student learned about magazine house styles, audience research, and production skills through completing this project.
Introductory task 1 (question 1 8)
This document discusses music magazines, including what they are, what content can be expected, and common design features. A music magazine covers artists in different music genres like rap, hip-hop, and rock. They typically include images of artists, short biographies, and information on upcoming music videos and industry news. Common elements are images of artists, pull quotes, a consistent color scheme, and links to social media and the magazine's website. The document also analyzes sample magazine covers, noting features like a prominent central image, partial mastheads, and pull quotes used to engage readers.
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Q4
- 1. Q4 Who would be the audience for your media product? Aaron Vogan
- 2. Target Audience for my Product • My product is a music magazine based on the Metal genre. I am targetting fans of the genre who will be interested in the stories and interviews that the magazine has to offer. My magazine doesn’t have any gender restrictions, so both males and females are a possible audience but my magazine is aimed at people who are 16+ years old. Because my magazine is targeted at metal fans, my product needs to attract them into buying it, this means that I'm targeting the metal lifestyle as well as the music. The stereotypical metal fan wears dark clothes (such as band merchandise), has long hair and go's to concerts on a regular basis. My product is aimed at these fans who embrace the metal lifestyle as well as the music.
- 3. Examples of Target Audience • Example 1 • The metal fan in this photo follows some of the conventions and stereotypes behind metal music. They are wearing dark clothes, he have long hair and appears to be at a metal event such has a concert. This metal fan is also using a well known hand gesture that is welcomed by all rock/metal fans. • This person would be a sensible target for my magazine because he complies with most of the conventions that my metal magazine appeals too, he would enjoy my product because it is in compliance with the metal lifestyle.
- 4. • Example 2 • This metal fan also complies with the conventions and stereotypes behind the world of metal music. This fan has dark clothes, which happens to be band merchandise, he also has dark, medium long hair. He too is pulling a pose with the “horns” hand gesture at a concert. • This fan is a suitable target for my magazine because he would enjoy the stories and interviews that my product offers. He also seems to be a “stereotypical” metal fan, so he would enjoy the music and lifestyles that my magazine conveys. He is also wearing band merchandise, so he may enjoy the free posters and CD's that comes with my product. •
- 5. • Example 3 • This fan follow some of the conventions and stereotypes that are given to metal music. He has medium/long hair and is wearing dark clothes, which happens to be band merchandise for Iron Maiden. He is also pulling a pose with the “horns” hand gesture that is commonly used by metal fans around the world. • This metal fan would be a suitable target for my product because he is clearly passionate about metal music so being able to read about his favorite bands would be rappelling to him. He also seems to be at a concert or festival which indicates that he is a follower of the metal lifestyle. This means that he will enjoy my product because it follows the conventions of metal music and the lifestyle that surrounds it.
- 6. • Example 4 • This metal fan follows some of the conventions and stereotypes that surrounds metal music. She has long, dark hair and Is wearing a dark band t-shirt. She also has dark makeup on and a pale complexion, which is stereotypical of some women in metal. She also seems emotionless. • She would be a suitable target for my product because she will be able to read about her favorite bands in my magazine as well as being able to learn more about the metal lifestyle. She may also enjoy my magazine because of the free posters and CD's that are offered with my product. •
- 7. • Example 5 • This metal fan follows some of the conventions and stereotypes behind metal music. He is wearing dark clothes, that happen to be band merchandise of Metallica. He is also using the “horns” hand gesture that is commonly used by metal and rock fans around the world. He is wearing a black hat similar to that of James Hetfield in the St.Anger music video. • This metal fan would be a suitable target for my product because he is clearly a metal fan and is also passionate about the music he listens to and the artists that perform those songs. He would like my product because he would be able to get free merchandise with my product ans well as read about his favorite bands and artists .
- 8. • Example 6 • This metal fan follows the conventions and stereotypes that follow the metal world. He has long hair and is wearing dark clothes. He is also at a concert which is a key feature of a metal lifestyle. • This fan would be a suitable target for my product because he would be able to read about his favorite bands , and concert reviews etc. he would also be able top read about his favorite artists and their lifestyles, as well as receive free CD's and posters with my magazine.