Planning and pre production

Together me and my group designed a questionnaire in which we all decided we would be able to gather a conclusion in the most popular music magazine, genre, age group for certain genres, and if any magazine were specific to any particular genres.We asked each participant to state their name, age, and gender and some of the questions included into our questionnaire:What’s your favourite genre of music? – funky house, rNb, rock, indie, other.Do you read music magazines? If so what ones? Q, NME, Top of the Pops, Kerrang, other.Do you only read one genre of music magazines? Yes, NoHow much would you spend on a Music Magazine? £1-£2, £2-£3,£3-£4, above £5.The results I discovered from my questionnaire lead me to believe that the most popular music for the younger generation of 15-21 year olds was funky House but the most read music magazine was Kerrang. Kerrang is of a rock genre, My group then came up with the conclusion that there was a gap in the market for a Funky House magazine, as the majority of music magazines around in society in this period of don’t fit this particular genre.These findings helped me to shape my product as I then had a better understanding of a particular group of people’s favourite genre of music. Also what people expect to find in a magazine and how much they would roughly spend on a magazine being between £2-£3.

How I attend to Work in a group

For my group I chose to work with two other people in which I knew I would work well with and would be able to express my ideas, views and opinions with. I also knew my group would be hard working and would all be willing to put in a high level of energy and focus into making this project to the best of our ability. My group all split various tasks equally to between each other to insure that we was all doing roughly the same amount of work and also so we could work with each others strengths and weakness’. Our work was allocated by myself researching other magazines of the same genre, Molly researching how to appeal to our target audience and finally Yasmine who researched artists who fitted with our music genre. We worked individually as well as in a team In order to be able to add our own identity and style into our project. We all worked separately in researching 3 different magazines all of a different genre in which we analysed the front cover, contents page and double page spread. My group planned our time very effectively as we worked together in school as well as outside school. We all decided upon a day and time in which we were all free to create three different issues of our magazines a swell as take all of our own pictures.

My research

Through myself researching and viewing various different music magazines, I have developed enough knowledge to understand what the main features and conventions I must include to create a realistic yet unique magazine. I read a range of different magazine articles in which I then felt confident enough to start to began drafting my own interview. My main convention I discovered for a music magazine was mainly the picture on the magazine which would be the major attraction, as this informs the reader of the genre, concepts and messages which will be displayed through my magazine. Im also aware of the master head, cover lines, sub headings, must be on the cover without taking away the main focus from the image of the artist.My research on the genre of funky house helped me to gain a better understand of the conventions I needed to fit in with this particular genre. As funky house has clear association with neon colours, loud, crazy, I knew I would have to make my magazine bright, eye catching, a crowded layout.