Task 1

Age of Target Audience

The age of my target audience for my magazine will be from ages 15 – 24. This suits the music bands, information and movies that are being posted into the magazine.

Gender

The gender is mainly male, but a few females will read it, I done a bit of research and found that 68.3% that read it are male and 31.7% are female.

Social Group

The social group that will be reading my magazine will be people who like big recording artists like Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Take That and Lady Gaga. We vary who is included in our magazines, it will be Indie artists to Pop Artists.

Distribution or Readership

In January to December 2012, Q distributed more that 350,000 copies. This shows that it attracts a lot of people because of the quality and price of the magazine.

Genre of Music

Indie and Pop will be the main genre of the magazine as they are the biggest two genres around.

Types of Artists/Bands that would appear in this Mag

Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Take That, Lady Gaga and many more. These are all big recording artists and attract a lot of people because of the quality of the music they produce.

Below is the Research I Done for the Gender of My Magazine.

My Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/karlgraham96/conventions-28195143

This is my powerpoint on the conventions of a music magazine, the powerpoint is shared by a website called SlideShare!

Main Image

This slide describes what the main image is. The main image is the image on the front of the magazine and gives us a preview of whats inside.

Conventions Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvA1YEVec-A
In the video it shows you the conventions of a music magazine, it helps you label them and gives you an idea of what they are

Banners

This is my slide about Banners. The magazine uses a banner to show what the magazine is called it is like a masthead, they also colour co-ordinate the magazine so the text stands out, example such as black and white.

Mastheads

This is my slide about Mastheads, it tells you what its about too, the mastheads show what the magazine is called so consumers know what magazine they are buying and whether they are in to what the magazine is about

My Two Magazines

These are the two magazines I am using for my presentation. I have chose these magazine because they have various conventions, such as a masthead, banner, main image and a lead. The magazines use a lot of colour to. The Indie magazine uses dull and blank colours and the RnB magazine uses bright and fun colours