Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your music magazine?

The target audience for my magazine would be teenagers to young adults, around the age of 15-24. They would be both male and female, and would be music lovers. Specifically, they would love the indie genre, which is a little unusual and ranges from electro, acoustic and a soft rock, with a lot of unknown artists.

Here is a mood board showing what the stereotypical person buying my magazine would be interested in:

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine and why?

Question 2: How does your magazine represent particular social groups?

Question 1: In what ways does your music magazine use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines?

These are my final pages to my music magazine after I had taken into consideration the feedback that I got. I feel like my magazine has really improved from my first drafts.

Here I have used Thinglink to show how I have used, developed and challenged conventions of real music magazines.

Music magazine feedback

I posted my draft version of my music magazine on Padlet and asked people to give me feedback on what is good, what is bad, and what could be added or improved.

Front cover:

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

I found the feedback really useful and they gave me a lot of ideas. Padlet was a good website to use as it was easy for everyone to add their comments and see the image at the same time.

Colour scheme selection

I have thought of different colour schemes that would look good in my magazine. I would like it to stay similar throughout, so I will obviously have black and white as two of the main colours, along with different shades of another colour.

I like the idea of different shades of a cool blue, as I think this goes well with my genre being a lot of relaxed music. Having the colour blue is going with the music magazine conventions as many feature this colour.

Magazines also feature a lot of red, however I think this goes better with the heavier, rock genre. I think red is a bit too bright and I would like my colour to be quite pale and soft. If I were to use a red, I would want it to be more toward a cherry or pink colour, and not too harsh, like these.

I also like the colour green as I think it is unique and goes against conventions, as I have not seen it on any magazines whilst doing my research. This, too, is a nice soothing colour, and would fit well with my genre.