Image Guidelines

I have used other images of celebrity's so far just so I can get a rough guideline on how my layout of images will be like.

Creative Choice

I have started to create my masthead and strapline. I've chosen these colours to appeal to my 14-19 audience.

I have changed the position of my masthead to get rid of the white space between my strapline and masthead.

Task 2

Name: Lucy Simpson 

Age: 16

Hobbies: Singing, eating, going the cinema and going to concerts.

Favourite Films: Twilight, Never Say Never, Harry Potter, Hunger Games and The Believe 
                                Movie.
TV Programmes: Emmerdale, X Factor, Doctor Who, Keeping Up With The Kardashians 
and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
Music Tastes: Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, The Wanted, Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus.

Fashion Style: Girly, smart yet casual, Individual and mainly high street fashion.

Likes: KFC, Chocolate, Winter, Holidays, Liquorice, The Wanted, Justin Bieber and Films.

Dislikes: One Direction, Directioners, Burger King and Biology.

Employment Status: Hair Dressers Assistant on saturdays. 

Task 1

Age of Target Audience:

I am aiming my magazine between the ages14-19.

Gender of Target Audience:

I am aiming my magazine towards mainly girls rather than boys.

Social Group:

My magazine is mainly going to be aimed towards social groups who enjoy pop music like artists within the top 40.

Distribution or Readership:

164,000 people read Top Of The Pops magazine. This means it has a large readership which means it can attract bigger stars in the music industry.  

 

Genre of Music:

My magazine will mainly be based around pop music, like music which is currently in the top 40. 

Types of Artists/Bands that would appear in this Mag:

In my magazine, artists/bands who have music in the Top 40 or who's music usually goes straight into the top 40 when released would appear in my magazine. 

Presentation - Conventions Of A Music Magazine

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Target Audience

The target audiences for these two magazines are completely different from each other.

Top of the pops magazine is glossy monthly magazine, published by BBC magazines. The top of the pops magazine was published after the tv show. The name top of the pops puts across the idea that this is a music magazine, featuring articles mainly on pop music and music that is in the charts and popular at the time. Top of the pops is mainly aimed at young teens, mainly girls as most of their special additions are based on boybands. Just like the one above. The top of the pops magazine above is based on the boy band 'The Wanted' so this certain magazine will be mainly aimed at fans of the boy band The Wanted.

The Target audience for Vibe Magazine varies. 50.5% of the audience are males meaning the other 49.5% are female. The ratio between the 2 genders is almost exactly equal, meaning that Vibe is aimed towards both genders, not either one specifically. Vibe magazine is different from top of the pops because top of the pops is mainly based on pop music whereas Vibe magazine is based on rap music and articles on rap artists. 

Conventions

The following conventions I have researched are..

• Mastheads
• The Lead Cover Line
• Cover Lines
• Cross Head
• Strap line
• Image
• Barcode and Price

Conventions

Creating my music convention presentation!

Example of analysing magazine conventions

I used this example to help me analyse the magazine front covers I have chosen...

Example Of Analysing Magazine Conventions