Flat-Plans

I have now designed my flatplans. I looked at other examples from the internet and used these to help me when creating my own. I used basic magazine features such as a masthead, images, bold text and on the contents page I used an A-Z index in order to make the navigation around the magazine easier. I will scan these into my computer and later load them onto the blog. My next task is to start creating my article, front cover and contents page along with taking my photographs that fit in with the theme of my magazine.

Uses and Gratifications

One of my tasks was to write a blog post on the uses and gratifications in media in society. I had to look at how this applied to a number of magazines I had recently looked at and how I would be able to include all of them into my own once it was created. To help me with this I used the website http://heworthmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/uses-and-gratifications-and.html . It included alot of helpful information that I could use in order to complete the last bit of the music magazine task successfully.

One of the objectives in this task was to create an appropriate reader profile. I had to look at the results I had receieved from my survey and base the profile around this. I inlcuded the colour pink which is related to girls in general society and included images that I would associate with teenage girls who are interested in music and social life. the images will draw in a reader as they might think they apply to them as they are both interested in the same things as what are included on the reader profile.

 

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