Planning: Calander

This calendar will help me to keep track of the progress on my magazine and set goals for when I need to complete certain tasks.

15/11/16- Mood board completed
20/11/16- Photos taken
28/11/16- photoshopping images
9/12/16- first magazine design completed
16/12/16- All 3 Prototypes completed
20/12/16- Final designs chosen
10/01/17- Evaluation 

Research: Readership Profile

Here is the information I have learned from my survey which can help me with designs for my cover and contents pages.

• Who is my magazine for? Teenagers between the ages of 16-19.
• What type of music do the magazine specialising in? Rock and Pop music.
• What gender is it aimed? Both genders have an equal interest.
• What singers/groups do they listen to? Little Mix, Ollie Murs, Coleplay, Ellie Goulding, James Bay, Michael Jackson, Queen
• What styles of clothing do they like? Below are some examples            

Research: Survey

To discover what people would want to see on a music magazine, I created a survey to help get an idea of what i would need to add in order to make it successful.
link below.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/78ZVXC7

Research: Music Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis

To help get idea of what I need to do for my task, i looked at some examples of double page spreads

and analyse what they contain as well as how they are structured.

Research: Music Magazine cover and contents analysis

To help get idea of what I need to do for my task, i looked at some examples of magazine covers and contents pages and analyse what they contain as well as how they are structured.

Research: Uses and Gratifications

Uses and gratifications theory is an approach to understanding why and how people actively seek out specific media to satisfy specific needs. UGT is an audience-centered approach to understanding mass communication. It assumes that audience members are not passive consumers of media.

Research: Magazine Institution: IPC media/Time Inc

 International Publishing Corporation (IPC Media), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Marcus Rich founded the company in 1968.

Research: Music Magazine Institution research: BBC Worldwide

To help me get a sense of what is expected on music magazines, I will research two media companies to analyse what they do. to begin with I chose to look at the company BBC worldwide.

BBC Worldwide Ltd. is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. The company monetises BBC brands, selling BBC and other British programming for broadcast abroad with the aim of supplementing the income received by the BBC through the licence fee.

It was set up in 1979 as BBC enterprise, but later became BBC worldwide in 1995. In the past seven years the company has invested over £1bn in the UK's creative sector making it a major supporter for this increasingly important part of the 'UK plc'. BBC Worldwide also sells programmes and formats produced by over 250 British independent producers. BBC Worldwide CEO Tim Davie is co-chair of UKTI's creative industries Sector Advisory Group, which is working to help grow creative industries exports and inward investment. UK creative businesses wanting to work internationally can find out more on UK Trade & Investment and the support it offers on the UKTI website.

BBC Worldwide continues to evolve what it does in the world of content. In addition to being a world-class distributor of scale, we are increasingly a significant and active creative partner, particularly on high-end, high-value projects.

some of its publications include:

Introduction

For my main Media Task, I have been given the instruction to create a Music Magazine cover, contents page and a double page spread. This task is to follow on from my Prelim Task, where I have learned some editing skills which I hope to use in making this Magazine.