Masthead Names

-Uncut
-Influence
-Stimulation
-Amnesia
-Chaos
-Space
-Underground
-Riot
-Fresh
-Pact

I asked my target audience which one they like the most, and what would look good and sound good as a magazine masthead, and it was a mixture between Uncut and Influence, so i've designed both titles to see which look, and would work best.

Billboard

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Dazed and Confused

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Questionnaire

QUESTIONNAIRE (Circle answer)

How old are you?

15 – 23  

24 – 35

36 – 44

45+

What Gender are you?

Male

Female

What’s your occupation? …………………………………………………..

Which one of these groups do you fit in?

A-     Professional/Senior managers in business/

B-      Middle management executives in large organizations/Owners of small businesses.

C-      Junior management/Owners of small establishments.  

C2- Manual workers and those who work with responsibilities for other people.

D-     Skilled and un-skilled manual workers, Apprentices and trainees.

E-       Unemployed, Students/ Or casual workers without a regular income.

What sort of music are you into?

RnB

Pop

Hip Hop

Classical

Rock

Heavy  Metal

Indie

Dance

Drum and Bass

Other

What Music magazines do you buy?................................

How much would you pay?

£0.99 - £1.99

£2 - £2.99

£3 - £4

What do you prefer to see on a front cover?

More text

More images

Less text

1 Image

A bit of both.

How often do you go to concert or gigs?

Every 2 months

Every 7 month

Every year

Every 2 Years

Do you go on music magazine websites?

Yes

No

If yes which one?....................................

How often do you buy music magazine?

Weekly

Monthly

Fortnightly

Yearly

What and Who would you like to see in a music magazine?.....................................................................................................................................................

Which layouts do you like the most?

 

Which is the better name for my music magazine?

INFLUENCE                               UNCUT

Which font/design is the best?

Research & Analysis into Kerrang!

Brand Identity and Values for my magazine

I want my magazine to have a distinctive look about it, I want my magazine to be influenced by magazines such as DAZED and Confused, This is because its a lot different to many music magazines I've seen. I want it to have a clear, good quality and unique image, of one or two people - but i really like how DAZED have use half and half of to peoples faces and i want to try that out for my magazine. I also want to use different patterned backgrounds, and add different ones too the image, and have a white or black masthead, as for my magazine. This is what i want my magazine to be recognized for and to be different to others. I want my magazine to be a young, fresh new and exciting magazine that looks at all new music.This is because i want the genre of my magazine to be a wide range of music and artists, i have to be sure it looks correct as my magazine will be for a large audience. Also i want my magazine to stick to the conventions of a typical music magazine, but i'm not going to have loads of text on the front cover, as i want all the attention on the image. I also want my magazine to show a celebrity lifestyle and appearance of them, showing that the cool and glamorous lifestyle is the only one to have. I want my magazine to be exclusive, so i don't want to show ordinary picture people have from concerts and tours and new fashion trends that celebrities wear,or have just brought out, as i want it to be never seen before stuff, that you can only find in my magazine.

I want my magazine to bring a cool and edgy vibe to the music magazine industry, and aiming it a young people will create it into a huge mainstream magazine, Also making it subvert the stereotypes of a normal magazine will make it different and interesting/unusual and creating it the must read magazine.

Target Audience for Music magaine

       My Music Magazine is going to based on a range of different genre's of music, As i want it to be a mainstream magazine such as Billboard,I-D and Dazed This will be appealing to people who like artist like Rihanna, Ne-yo and Beyonce, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus,Eminem,Jay-Z and other big artists, It will be a magazine for only the best music.This means my audience will be teenagers/young adults (C2DE) and around the age of 15 – 24, and a gender of both Male and Female but aim towards Female, as they like the artists i want to focus my magazine around.. I'm also looking at these sort of artists because they are big fashion icons and everyone wants to be like them and dress like them. These types of people shop at both mainstream shops and shops aimed at a niche audience such as Urban Outfitters, TopShop/TopMan, RiverIsland, Marc Jacobs, American Apparel, these people usually believe in Girl Power (If your a girl) and, being rich, glamorous, also sometimes they believe in/Worship the devil, And this is represented through the clothes they wear with symbols/captions and also in there song lyrics. These type of people also spend there free time going out shopping or clubs or where ever they can be seen by people, they also engage in other media like twitter and Tumblr and YouTube.