The document analyzes a music magazine aimed at teenagers and young adults between 16-24 years old. It discusses the target audience's interests, which include rock music, video games, and attending concerts. The document also outlines design elements like bold fonts, colorful visuals, and personal language used to engage readers. Overall, the magazine aims to provide entertainment and information about bands, artists, and the music industry to its target demographic.

1. Francesca Gregory

2. Images of males and females show the social group includes both genders. Intense expression gives the connotations of confidence. Sell lines promoting ‘EVENTS’ suggests that the social group avidly follow music and consume it by attending performances. Sell line about ‘LEARNING’ music shows that the social groups are aspiring musicians and that music takes a significant role in their life. Advertisement for a music channel shows the social group access music through television. ‘ Your questions are answered’ shows the readers are followers of the magazine and like to get involved with artists. Use of personal language in the letter from the editor suggests that the social group are friendly and passionate about music. The bands website address shows that the readers of the magazine are a modern groups and socialise through the internet. Positive, aspiring language used by the band members which portrays them as friendly and they work very well together and like to work with the magazine. The band members roles show that they are talented because they can play multiple instruments. The artists success is made known by the mention of the release of an album. Close and appreciative relationship with fans. Plain but slightly dark appearance shows that the artists are confident and don’t take much of an interest in fashion other than their rock style.

3. The large, bold fonts are easy to read and help attract the attention of the audience by the visibility of information on the covert. The use of unusual colours for a rock music magazine will make it stand out amongst competition. Personal references such as 2 nd person words like ‘you’ and ‘your’ attracts them and involves them in the magazine. The needs of the readers are addressed by helping them navigate through the magazine with the contents page divided into sections. Eye contact from the model on the front cover grabs the attention of the potential reader. Persuasive text such as exaggerating information makes magazine more exiting. Audience are attracted with lines such as ‘Exclusive’ and ‘Don’t Miss!’ The audience is addressed directly by assertive and involving language on the cover. The personal and informal language in the letter from the editor addresses the reader in a kind way. The use of images attracts the target audience as they can recognise eye contact and it helps to break up the text on the double page spread so they are not bored by the look of plain text. The double page spread is easy to follow and the pages are connected in a clear way making it easier for the audience to read and enjoy. Repetitive information reinforces anything that the audience have seen before in the magazine and can help them recognise elements of the article that attracted them to it.

4. I used many with descriptions underneath. I’ve developed this by putting sell lines in block colours which means the audience is drawn to the more important articles because they stand out. The conventional colour schemes of most rock music magazines are usually dark colours such as reds and black. I have challenged this my using contrasting colours of white and purple. This would help to make the magazine stand out. I followed the regular conventions of a double page spread in using at least one image and making the interview flow onto the other page. It is also laid out Q/A. I have developed the conventions of the interview by making it short and putting in personal information about the band members to break it up and let the readers know more about the artists. I challenged the normal way of having the price hidden on the page by having it towards the middle of the page and not near the barcode. I have not over complicated the front cover or the contents page of my magazine and kept it clear so that it makes it easier for the reader to understand and recognise the information .hat the magazine is trying to show.

5. My Reader Profile: Gender: Males and females. Age: About 16 – 24 (although there may be an audience as young as 14). Location: Living in the UK. Occupation: Unemployed, employed, student, university student. Interests: Any kind of rock music, video games, television, films, bands and artists, technology, education (if they are still into education) and their own personal styles and gigs/concerts. Hobbies: Playing in a band or attending local or large scale gigs, gaming, crafts or painting, technologies such as computers, MP3 players of iPods, mobile phones and cameras. Background: Any background. Could be living with family, on their own or have their own young family. Dislikes: Pressure, keeping up with the ’norm’ (like to be unusual), big headed people and anyone who disagrees with their style. Instead of going out to town shopping, they’ll round their friends house to play video games whilst listening to loud rock music. My target audience appreciate all music but prefer rock. They are interested in the personalities and lifestyles of artists. They are the typical relaxed teen/young adult who always listens to music.

6. Aims / Ethos: To create influential magazines that suit a wide range of audiences and maintain its establishment as one of the leading providers of lifestyle magazines. Music Magazines: Kerrang! Mojo Q Aims of the company: To provide a wide range of media (magazines) to millions of people across the world and develop their business further. Music Magazines: Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Classic Prog, Computer music , Future Music, Guitarist, Revolver, Guitar Techniques, Rhythm, Total Guitar, Guitar Aficionado, Guitar World, Guitar World Legends About the company: An American company that supplies all kind of media world wide and publishes magazines such as ‘Cosmopolitan’. Music Magazines: None yet. About IPC: One of Britain's leading magazine publishers, focused on provided their audiences with lifestyle and leisure magazines. Music Magazines: NME Uncut I think that IPC media is the company that is most likely to distribute my product because: They are an experienced and well established company They already publish 2 music magazines, ‘NME’ and ‘Uncut’ My magazine would be different to the ones they already publish, because it would be aimed at a younger target audience and focus more on targeting female readers.

7. I used the following programs: Adobe PhotoShop Macromedia Fireworks Microsoft Publisher 2003 I developed my skill in Macromedia Fireworks and learn new ways of editing images of the people in my magazine using new tools. I also developed my skills in Photoshop when resizing the people and editing the backgrounds. Blogging was a new experience for me that I found interesting and was good because it helped me to keep up with my work and see improvements. I reached some limitation with Microsoft Publisher 2003 because it was an older version, but this did not hold back the production of my music magazine in any way. As you can see the backgrounds of the images are removed. This was done through photoshop and fireworks

8. The arrangement of sell lines on the cover of was planned in more detail so the cover flows and so it is not cluttered. The language and structure of the contents page in ____________________ shows development through arranged layouts of pages: ‘FEATURED’, ‘REGULARS’ and ‘REVIEWS’. I chose to do this because I saw it when researching in other music magazines, but when making ‘Ed’s’ contents page I did not do any research into it. The research into what sell lines my target audience wanted, (by questionnaire) showed me that more tag lines and assertive language needed to be used. This shows an improvement in researching when compared to my preliminary task because I did not ask these questions to the school magazines target audience. There is much more content in the full product than there is in ‘Ed’, this is because of more research and more time to make the magazine. After the production of ‘Ed’, I learnt that the arrangement of every component in Had to be there for a reason which suited the aim or target audience.