Main Task - Target audience

My Intended magazine, is going to be based on music which is similar to the styles of NME. NME is a magazine that is primarily aimed at men aged between the ages of 17-30, the average NME reader will spend around £156 pounds on footwear per year, £532 on clothes per year, £1229 on audio equipment per year, £170 pounds on digital cameras per year and spend £66 on DVD's, 69% are male and the average age of the readers are 24 but if they were put into a bracket it would be 15-44, the Majority of this magazines readers are in the C2DE hierarchy, which means they are the normal workers like, students Etc. the readership is 369,000 and the circulation is 40,948 (http://www.ipcadvertising.com/ipc-brands/2009/feb/03/nme)

Matt Jones, my ideal reader is a 24 year old male , who enjoys the finer things in life, he enjoys consoles and spends alot of money on clothes and uses the internet alot of the time, he enjoys music and especially the rock genre. He enjoys going out with friends.

Also another magazine that is similar to the magizine that I intend to base my magazine on is , Kerrang! The readership of this magazine is that in ABC1 there are 239,000 people that read the magazine 178,000 C2DE, so this tells us that this is quite a broad magazine , ie a doctor , also this magazine, in the age group form 15-44 there are 378,000 people that read it where as in the 45+ section there are a mere 39,000 so this can also tell us that they must be targeting the market of 15-44 , as most of there sales are more for the ages between that bracket. also from this infomation you can see that 290,000 people who buy the magazine are men , and only 127,000 are women , so this can be that it is quite male and female based but more towards the male gender so this all contributes to the target audience .

So for this my ideal reader , Barry Priaulx , is a male who is around 18 , he also may not be very doing well as this is quite a cheap/easy to read magazine so it could be aimed at students who enjoy the music scene. most of the people who read this magazine enjoy music and get the magazine to find out about music so it is a very broad magazine so could be a high end doctor or could be a lower end student.

Main Task - Target audience

Main Coursework - Introduction

This piece of coursework, the music magazine, we have to create a Front page, a Contents Page and a double page spread on a certain genre or a certain band, For my magazine i am going to be basing it on Indie Style music, so it is going to be based on a sort of rock'n'roll / modern genre, one of the things we did to prepare ourselves for this was a college magazine http://sdcmediaasbenlee.blogspot.com/, in which we took pictures and prepared layouts that we could use.

The contents page of my magazine , I think is good because , the pictures and the wording work well with each other as they are made to seem as if they were made to be in that position , also the banner at the top matches the font and size which is on the front page to make it look smart and in sync. I think this makes the magazine look more professional and better.




My front page of my magazine has many different aspects , I think the picture on the front shows a certain swagger and confidence about the student president which is good , also the Lewes college logo is in the corner shows where we are and people relate to it . also the writing goes around the picture which make it to look as if it was made to be there . this also contributes to the look of the magazine , and finally the heading as this is the same as all of the headings all the way through the magazine to make it look professional.

In this First Photo it is Supposed to show the attitude around college and how before dom was student president people were not happy , I used this photo as it was a good way of the black of the jeans / t-shirts against the white back ground. Also I thought the look of the photo was good as it emphasised the anger within the students that Dom is not Student President also as they are looking into the camera it help to see that they are looking at the reader


In This Second photo , I used it as it shows , confidence and swagger , also it shows how he deserves to be president by the look on his face , as it sort of show I deserve it , also he is looking straight into the camera which shows he is looking at the audience , and finally the colours of yellow on the white wall is good as it makes him stand out and " jump Out "

contents and front page Flat plans.

On my Front Page , I used the tag line "Dom Thomas - yes he did " the reason I did this in this way is because the innuendo about Barack Obama, also the font I choose for this supports this as I found the font brarck used for his posters and used a similar font . also I used a picture of Dom in the front as if it was looking over his shoulder , the reason I did this is because I planned to put the writing behind him as if it was written on the wall.

For my contents page , I used one of Doms Campaign posters , with things about him surrounding it , the reason I did this is because he is the main feature of my magazine and also as it emphasis the way he won his campaign , also on my contents page I used the same font so it looked similar , and so it looked smart and well made.

Introduction

This piece of coursework will be about a magazine in which I discuss and explain things that are happening in college life, I will show on the front the new Student president and have a tag line of 'your guide to college life ' also I will have sub-headings with extracted quotes about some of his slogans and also a sub-heading about this years freshers party, this magazine , i will be aiming at people within college around the age from 16-18 .