Feedback 24.11.09

Laura, your prelim task and refelction should be here by now. You need to be working on your research at home in your own time too. Outline the conventions of music mags in gerneral and analyse front pg, contents and dble pg feature from similar text yto your intended one. Say how it targets audience, suggests genre etc, Include rel theory - AIDA, U&G theory etc. Also conduct some audience research and collate your data etc. Say how your findings will inform the product. See me and/or checklist.

Mrs A

The Project I have chosen, why and my initial thoughts of the project

The project i have chosen to do is a music magazine. I have chosen to do this option because I am interested in both music and a career in journalism. I am working on my own to create this project.

The chosen genre for my music magazine is going to be indie and the target audience will be teenage girls and young women. I have chosen younger women for my target audience because the style of my magazine is going to be quite feminine in the way it is written, set out, the music displayed, the pictures used and the colour co-ordination. By doing this i believe it will sell well to my target audience. To make sure my project will sell to the target audience i have chosen to use, i am going to do a number of different kinds of research to make sure my magazine is going to be successful.

I want my magazine to be successful and grap the attention of my target audience. To make sure this happens my magazine needs to be unique. To make my magazine unique I will use a creative style when taking photos and I will also use eye catching information on the front of my magazine, on the contents page and also on my double page layout.

Part of my research is going to be looking at magazines currently on the market that are aimed at my target audience. I will be looking at how the front cover is set out, what photos have been used, the colouring, the logo and also how I could improve or better that magazine.

I feel my product with be successful because young women are common buyers of magazines and indie music is one of many popular genres of music. I am prepared to make changes and also add some ideas to the music magazine after doing plenty of research, by doing this my magazine will comfort my target audience to make them feel ok buying it but also be something different making it stand out next to other magazines.