Editorial profile

During leisure time or as a way of escaping from your reality for five minutes, this music magazine will inform and connect you to your favourite artists in the music world and update you with what they are up to on a day to day basis. Also where they will be performing in the near future. This magazine aims to keep you coming back for more juicy gossip on the hottest celebs today. Exclusive interviews will show you how each celebrity first got into showbiz and how they were once a member of public just like you, but now they are living the high life shopping in designer stores, walking the red carpet and touring the world. You will be able to feel more connected to the celebs we interview here at BoomBox, so keep updated and happy reading guys!

Customer Profile

My music magazine focus' on the charts music, it will be targeting teenage girls from age 13 to 25, therefore as i am appealing to slightly older women as well, my magazine will have sophisticated elements to it to attract my age range, but use colours that attract all females for example pinks. 

This is Hannah, she is at collage student and is studying, Dance, english language and art. She enjoys listening to dance and pop music for inspiration in her studies. These are very much featured in the charts, therefore she likes to keep updated with what's new. In a music magazine, Hannah looks for top pop stars like Katy Perry and Rihanna as they are known for sexy, prevocative dances in their music videos and Hannah is always looking for new moves from different cultures. She also likes to keep up with celebrity news and gossip.

Questionnaire Results

My Questionnaire Results

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From these results, the first chart has shown me, i should definatly use BoomBox as my masthead for my magazine as it has been voted for much more than my other names. This is pleasing because i wanted to use this as i think it will work well with my ideas for a cover image.
My second chart shows i questioned mostly 13 to 16 year olds but my answers do have the influence of a slightly older audience because they may like to buy my magzine too.
For my third chart, the colours, pink, black and white got the most votes. I also wanted this to win because i wanted to do a dark black background and have bright writting that will attract the readers attention and will contrast to the dark background.
My fourth chart shows that exclusive interviews were most popular for the content of my magazine. This tells me that my audience would like to know about the music artists lives and get to know them more as a person so they can connect with them and relate, rather seeing them as an amazing person that is better than them because they are famous.
My fifth chart shows half my audience would pay up to £2 for my music magazine, but more than a quarter are willing to spend a bit more money on it. I think the half that would only pay upto £2 could be easily persuaded to spend an extra £1 - £2 by the content of my magazine.

My questionnaire

I chose to upload this video to my blog because Katy Perry is the type of pop singer that my target audience would like. She has lots of songs in the charts and is a respected singer/ songwritter.

Conventions of a magazine

• The masthead is a very important part of the magazine, it tells the audience the name of the magazine. It should be bold and catchy to attract attention but must also fit with the theme of the front cover for example fonts and colours.
• The coverlines tell the reader what the magazine consists off. They should be bold and range in a couple of different fonts to vary the magazine. Some words should be highlighted that would catch the audiences eye, for example 'WIN'.
• The magazine image is what the audience will base their first impressions on, as it depends what they are wearing, who they are, what they look like. This will show the genre of magazine and usually who the target audience is.
• The magazine will always have a logo, that is memorable, reciognisable and follows the theme of the magazine.
• The selling line is usually placed under the masthead, it is a short description of the title and magazine and its purpose.
• Mode of address- this is the type of language used on and in the magazine that is used to address the target audience. They may use colloquial language for a niche product because they will be aiming for a certain type of person to understand and buy the magazine.
• Every succesfull magazine needs a lure. This is to catch the audiences eye by using an image or a special offer, exclusive interviwes, competitions, or free items with the magazine.
• There is usually a main coverline included on the front cover to go with the main image, its a few words that explain the image.
• There needs to be a dateline on the magazine telling the audience when it was published and the price of the magazine.
• The colour scheme of the magazine needs to be simple and only consist of a few colours or the magazine will look very crowded and not thought about.

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