Amrita's Magazine Research

In today's lesson we learnt about magazines and audiences. We learnt that magazines/all media products are made to make money. Magazines exist to deliver consumers to advertisers. We analysed music magazines. The magazine we analysed was Q magazine.

Q magazine is aimed at 16 to 25 year olds. We figured that the target audience of this magazine is people who might be living in studio flats, and listen to music like Indie music. In a group we discussed the lifestyle of people who read Q magazine.

The reason we say 'Q' magazine is aimed at those who listen to Indie/rock music is because on the front of the cover the strapline is 'Oasis are back'. there was also an image of Neol Gallghar. From this magazine we were asked to present to the class the denotations and connotations of the 'Q' magazine. We also learn't technical terms for features on the front cover of a magazine, for example strapline, masthead, cover line, etc.

We were introduced to this as we were to make our own front cover magazine. our whole class was excited.

In a group of four, we had to pick a genre for our music magazine. We decided to do a 'Pop' magazine. this was aimed for 11 to 15 year old teenage girls. We then had to decide on a title. After a long thought we came up with 'The Nxt BIG Thing'

As this title was too long We had to decide on another name. We also had to make to seperate magazines in our group of four. So we came up with a summer edition which me and Lipi were to do and a Winter edition, which Nasima and lisa were going to do.

Our next lesson we will be doing our photoshoot. We have decided that I will be the central image for the Summer edition, therefore i will be wearing summer clothes, whereas Lisa will be wearing Winter clothes. We will be taking the pictures within the college as we will be using Photoshop to edit our magazine.

Personally i can't wait till the photoshhot then using Photoshop. My group is also impatient. We look forward to the next media lesson!