I have been give the task to make a music magazine and my proposition is that I make a pop magazine this is because from doing a little research I have found out that there aren't that many pop magazine around but they are many rock and hip hop magazine around when I have go around supermarkets. Only seeing 1-2 in among 10-12 rock magazine. Now this tells me that maybe pop isn't in high demand as rock magazine; even my questionnaire told me that people wanted rock; But I still want to make a pop based magazine. this is because there isn't that many in the current market; this means I can look at whats out there and follow the conventions in some way and see where i can try and challenge the convention a bit that it flows well. Were if I did a rock magazine I would feel that all the ideas are already done and I wound just follow the convention.
here is a link to some facts about teen magazine sales http://www.magforum.com/glossies/teen.htm
I want to aim my magazine at female teenagers in a C2 democratic- working class this is because I don't want my magazine expensive or to be filled with adverts like AB based magazine but I want reviews and interviews, celeb gossip and competitions thrown in to grab the attention of my target audience. I have chosen this target audience as im a teenager myself and i think that if you want to target a teenage audience you have to be a teenager as who know what a teenage wants better than a teenager.
With the articles I think im going to look at the artist on the pop music magazine and use them in my magazine as then I know what the audience wants and if it works for the other magazine it should work in mine.
With the double page spread I was thinking that I could have one big main image and have the text wrapping around it just to have something different to other magazine. However if this doesn't work I think I will have an image that goes over the pages but have room at the bottom to allow me to write the articles. I can also have an image on one side of the page and a full page full of text. I think I may need to draw out my ideas and put them on Facebook and Twitter and ask people and see what the audience says.
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