This is the reader profile i have created based on the results I have gained from my survey for BASS magazine. The audience is teenage girls aged 14-18 meaning the images on here are girly and all of their interests.

After making my survey and collecting a sufficient amount of results, I did an analysis. From this I found out that my target audience was going to teenage girls interested in their social life and the top music. I then had to take this consideration and mould this together with the rest of the things I had to base my magazine around.

I also had to research the ownership of my magazine. It is clear from the post below that I had 2 options after looking at my research.

Music Magazine Survey Analysis

• From my survey , it is clear that more females are interested in music magazine with 63% of them filling in the survey.
• The most common age in the survey was 14-18 and 30+ being the least which means when creating my music magazine it has to be fun, colourful and appropriate for the right audience.
• The magazine will be a mix between pop and dubstep with both of these categories of music being the most popular in the survey.
• From my survey it is agreed that the house style will be black,white and red, fitting in with a pop and dubstep theme.
• As 'Bass' was the most popular magazine name, I will use this.
• The audience thought it would be best to publish the magazine once a fortnight which means the people who are dedicated to buying it will have time to get the money they need to buy it.
• The audience are willing to pay anything from £1.95-£3.99 to the magazine but the cheapest option being the favourite.
• As the audience are fun and young, it became apparent that the most popular magazine bought was 'MixMag'.

 Research into Ownership

MixMag
My magazine will be published by 'MixMag'. MixMag  was the world's first dance music magazine and has been the market leader ever since. The first issue was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page black-and-white magazine published by Disco Mix Club, a DJ mailout service.  The magazine, which reached a circulation of up to 70,000 copies during the height of the popularity of acid house, was later sold to EMAP Ltd.   Mixmag is now a magazine for the entire world of dance music, whether you like hard boshing music that's quite druggy, or chill out music, or you're someone like me who likes to keep in touch with the music but has grown out of clubbing. This idea that dance music is a kind of minority interest, a bit like ska, is wrong."http://www.mixmag.net/
NME
NME could also publish my magazine. It was created by Theodore Smythson, is a UK weekly pop/rock music journalism publication, published since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. http://www.nme.com/magazine

Music Magazine Survey Results

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The next part of my task was to create a survey in order to create some results to base my magazine around. By asking general questions such as the gender, their interests in music magazines and their age, it gave me the foundations I needed to start planning my magazine. I asked the publics opinion on a genral house style, the name of the magazine and how often it should be released. This meant that when the magazine is eventually created it meets the publics wants and needs.

For the first part of my media studies task, I was asked to analyse 4 front covers, 4 contents pages' and 4 double page articles. I had to look at the kind of shot used by the photographer, the font used and the kind of target audience it was aimed at. After analysing each of these, I had to take all of the information I had just gathered into consideration when doing preperation for my own magazine. This became very helpful as I knew what questions had to be asked in order to get the right information.

Double Page Article/Feature Analysis

Double page article analysis from ellieadams17

This is the last part of my research. I analysed 4 double page articles , looking at the images , layout and house style. This research is going to help when it comes to making my own magazin pages for my media studies task.

Contents Page Analysis

Contents page analysis from ellieadams17

This is the link to slideshare again which i used to present my analysis of my contents pages from different music magazines. The analysis looks at the different aspects , house styles and font.

Magazine analysis from ellieadams17

- This is a link to slideshare , which I have used to present my analysis of music magazine front covers. It labels the different aspects on the magazine and what makes them different to other magazines on the shelf. It talks about the different fonts and colours used and how the effect the look of a front cover.