Friday, 26 September 2008

Magazine Research

In today's lesson we learnt about magazines and audiences. We learnt that magazines and other media products are produced to make money. They make majority of their money through advertising and also the cover price.
We analysed music magazine, Q. As we analysed the magazine, we found out the connotations of the magazine and also the dennotations. The slogan of the magazine says "Britain's Biggest Music Magazine ", this gives an opinion so that we should buy it, because of this reason. The image of Noel from Oasis is in black and whit this can connote that Oasis are back, this can also mean that the target audience may have grown up listening to them. The cover line of the magazine is "Oasis are Back!", this would attract the readers of this genre of indie rock.
the targeted audience of this magazine would be 25 year old + male. There weren't any other images except of Noel this can emphasis that he is the big headline and this would attract readers. the cover in general didn't look very attractive to me but maybe to the target audeince. there were also few coverlines around the magazine.
After analysing the magazine, me and the rest of my group brainstormed our ideas for our magazine. We thought about who our target audience are, when the magazine would be issued either weekly or monthly, the genre of the magazine and also the location of the magazine's photo. we also decided on what the two issues front covers are going to be about.
we decided that the magazine would be targeted at 11-15 year old girls, come out weekly, and the genre of the magazine will be pop. the reason we chose pop because there is a very large audience who would buy this genre of magazine. we aslo came up with a name for the magazine "the Nxt Big Thing". But for me i think we could come up with a better name because i kept repeating the name and for some odd reason i think we can change it, but we'll have to decide this when the group comes together.
the magazine would have new and upcoming artists, interviews, competitions and also freebies given away.

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