Potential photos for Music Magazine

Presentation of my completed preliminary task (school magazine cover&contents)

Magazine presentation from jessica_m12

Here is an evaluation presentation of my preliminary task.

Mock Up Rock Magazine Cover

This is my mock up draft. I tried to follow the codes and conventions and copy the layout of the original cover (below). I chose this cover to try and replicate because it's one of my favourites and I hope my final front cover of my own magazine will have a similar look.

I asked classmates to pose in a similar way as in the front cover. I hope to develop my draft by adding the image to it.

Final School Magazine Pages

The final front cover. (Above)

The final draft of the contents page.

Potential contents page images:

Presentation about my target market

Here is a presentation about the target market for my product.

Target Market

Thoughts on producing my music magazine and the kind of target audience I will be aiming to appeal to:

I intend to aim it at a younger audience, possibly around

16-30.

Readers will have a deep interest in rock/alternative/metal music as well as sub-genres within them.

The audience would be regularly attending concerts and most probably be summer festival goers. 

I hope to create a product which is both appealing and friendly, but also informative and full of content.

As I will be appealing to a younger audience who will presumably be more aware of technology, I will incorporate the use of indications to a website for my magazine.

My ideal creation of a music product would have the same content level as "Q magazine" combined with the features in "Kerrang!" Magazine.

Publishing Companies Research

               RESEARCH        

Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV and usually shortened to H. Bauer.

Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week.

Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by four generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house, The Bauer Publishing Group has grown into a worldwide publishing and media company. The Bauer Publishing Group comprises 282 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as well as TV and radio stations. Bauer started in the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987 and as H Bauer Publishing became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap Radio in 2008 to become the UK's biggest publishing group.

The group acquired Australia's largest magazine publisher, Australian Consolidated Press from private equity paymasters, CVC in 2012, increasing the company’s value to more than €2 billion.^[2]

The company trades as H Bauer Publishing - MD David Goodchild, and Bauer Consumer Media - CE Paul Keenan.

Bauer media group publish the popular magazines;

-Bella

-Take a break

-That’s life!

-Q magazine

- Kerrang!

                    

Article Ideas

Music Magazine ideas board

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I created an ideas board of various magazines. This allowed me to think about the way that different magazines covered the same kind of genre, helping me make decisions on how to present my own ideas.