Mock of my Front cover



The masthead of my magazine is bold and bright so that it is easy to see on the shelf when it is full of other magazines. I chose a hot pink colour because it persuades girls to buy the magazine as this is my target audience; I did not choose a lighter pink because the deep pink demonstrates that the magazine is for younger girls. The first letter is in a different font and in white to make it stand out; it is pure white because this stands out against the pink background. My magazine is called 'Bounce' because it is a common word used at festivals to tell someone to dance which relates to the genre. It is a short and simple word so that the readers can easily see it and it is a word that is catchy because it is easy to say.

My magazine does not have a catchy tagline. The reason I have not included one and decided to break the usual conventions of a magazine is because I felt the masthead was very eye-catching and by adding a tagline this would make the cover look crowded, which may stop the target audience from buying it. If I was going to put a tagline I would have written it in smaller letters with a more formal font to display the idea that my magazine is better than any other music magazine in the market.



Final Magazine Cover Inspiration

Here are three different magazine covers that I tried to base mine around. This is because the main images are close-up, powerful photo's of well known people which I have tried to re-create using a picture of the famous DJ, DJ EZ. The masthead of the 'GQ' and 'Q' magazine are very bold and as they are in a primary colour they are the first thing that someone notices on the page, which will essentially create a brand name for the magazine company. I did try to make my masthead bold and unique, however I don't think I quite achieved what I was hoping for... a bold, bright masthead. I believe that the problem with the masthead is that as the first letter is in a different colour, it separates the letter from the word, therefore making it less eye-catching. Hopefully I will continue to advance in my skills with using the programme serif which will end up with me having a perfect magazine cover. (Well that is what I am praying for anyway!).

26th December 2015

Making my mood board for my magazine was the best piece of work that I have done since my last blog post, I feel that it really captures the atmosphere that I want my magazine to have and I have even incorporated some of my own images that I had taken at festivals last year.  so  far the research I have done for this magazine has been going well and I have found lots of inspiration from other magazines.

Analysis of quesitonnaire

After seeing the results of the questionnaires I can ensure that my dance magazine will suit the specifics of my target audience. Most people that took part in the magazine were women and this is because my target audience is women so to find out what they would like to see in the magazine I needed to target them.

Dance Magazine Questionnaires

This is an example of the way I set out my magazine questionnaire for my target audience. I used a simple design and open and closed questions to get the best responses possible from the people that took part in the survey. One of my main priorities was for the questionnaire to not be biased as this could result in skewed answers which seriously would not help me in the process of making my magazine! I feel that, to the participants, some of the questions may have been seen as  being irrelevant; this is because they would not of seen the point of saying where they get most of their money from so this may have affected the results.

Overall, I think this was a good survey to use as it is so simple that most participants would be able to understand how it works and what the questions mean. This task was good as it showed me the wide range of questions that need to be asked before considering how a magazine cover is going to look.

mood board for magazine

11th December 2015

In the past few lessons I have been learning about the parts to a magazine and how this attracts a certain target audience. Looking at other magazines has really given me inspiration for my own and has helped me to see what sort of features would attract my target audience. I am very excited to start making my magazine front cover as I now feel that I have the knowledge needed to create the best media product that I possibly can!

Target Audience

In this lesson our class looked at the importance of picking the right target audience. The target audience is a chosen group of people that you would like to aim your product at. You can pick your target market based on many different variables.

Cleverly, I have chosen my music magazine to represent the young people that listen to house music. This is because I feel that I can relate to this genre of music and there are a lot of young people that enjoy it. I will strategically aim my music magazine towards this target audience by making an iconic front cover, that will be eye-catching and look like no other music magazine to persuade the reader to buy our magazine over anyone else's. Females aged 16-22 are the most common people that listen to house music as it is typically featured in many festivals that you need to be a certain age for.

My magazine will appeal to young people that are girls as dance music portrays the image of teens being able to express themselves through the music that they love. The socio-economic group that my target audience will come form is group D as they will mostly still be living at home as unskilled or semi-skilled workers.

Ideal Entity

Sophie is a lively seventeen year old girl that enjoys going out with her friends and socialising with people of different ages. She is enthusiastic about dance music as she attends music festivals every year to watch her favourite DJ's such as Annie Mac and DJ EZ. She plans to stay living at home until she settles in a stable career so most of her money comes from her parents; however she currently has a weekend job at a local retailer to pay to go to the festivals that she loves. She feels that there are not any music magazine's that appeal to her as house music is an up-coming genre so she would like to see a magazine that is targeted towards her and her friends.

Semiotic Analysis of a music magazine