Double page spread sketches

Contents page sketches

Front cover sketches

Questionnaire results

I posted a questionnaire on my blog to find out what my target audience liked and wanted out of a music magazine. People visited my blog to answer my questionnaire and with the results i am going to give an overall analysis of them. This will then help to come up with the final ideas for my music magazine.

Are you male or female?

The majority of the people that answered this question were female therefore this helps me to see that i will aim my magazine mostly at females.

What age category do you fit into?

83% of the people that answered my questionnaire were between the ages of 15- 18. And then there was 16% of 14 and younger, this has helped me to decide that i will design a music magazine for 14 years and younger as maybe if there was more of a range of music magazine for that age range to read then the might buy one more often.

How often do you buy a magazine?

66% of the people that answered my questionnaire said that they bought a magazine one every so often, 16% said once a month and another 16% said once every 2 weeks.

How much do you pay for a music magazine?

60% of people pay £2-£3 for a music magazine, 20% pay £1-£2 and 20% pay £3-£4. Therefore I will be aiming to sell my music magazine for between £2-£3.

What do you look for in a magzine?

40% of the people that answered this question said that they look for true stories whereas the other 60% said thay look for interviews, therefore i will include some sort of interview in my music magazine.

How do you listen to music?

20% of people answered the internet whilst another 20% said they used their phone to listen to music. 60% said that they used an ipod to listen to their music. Therefore i could think about adding in maybe a competition within my magazine to win an ipod or along those lines.

Different Fonts For My Title

Pop Princess

Pop Princess

Pop Princess

Pop Princess

Pop Princess

Pop Princess

I have chosen 6 different styles and fonts for the title of my front cover. I cut down to two of the styles and I am going to use them both and see which one suits best for my target audience. I am going to do this by making a questionnaire and see my results and see which one turns out more popular.

Target Audience

This is Samantha and she is a typical candidate of my target audience for my music magazine. She is 13 years old, lives in South Hertfordshire. Some of her hobbies are dancing, shopping and having girly nights in with her friends with a film, a tub of 'Ben n Jerry's' ice cream and some chocolate. At the weekend and in her free time she likes to go out socializing with her girly friends and going out for meals and then to the cinema to watch a film. Her favourite films are Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Mean Girls and Seventeen Again. When Samantha has free time to herself at home she likes to watching the Disney Channel, which includes watching programmes like Hannah Montanna and 'Thats so Raven'. She also likes to watch Hollyoaks and Eastenders. 

Her favourite places to shop are New Look, River Island and Tammy. Samantha dresses like a young, typical teenager, skinny jeans and ugg boots. She does however like designer clothes but as she is in education she can not afford to buy them and just adds them to her wish list on the different websites. She listens to mainly to pop music however she does like the odd RnB, Hip Hop song and she doesn't like Rock or classical music. 

Some of the artists that she listens to are Leona Lewis, Britney Spears and Pixie Lott.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is more often than not conveyed in the shape of a pyramid. It has the lowest but largest level of needs at the bottom and the need of self actualization at the top, also the needs for people.

This theory was created by Abraham Maslow.

The bottom of the pyramid is the things that people need and can not survive with out, however as it gets higher it turns from needs to wants and at the very top it turns to luxuries.

This theory can be associated with media products because a magazine would be at the very top as a luxury item as people do not need one to be able to survive.