Purpose of my questionnaire

link to my survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CKPCP26

My four magazines; audience, product, market segmentation analysis

My four music magazine analysis

One of the requirements for the main task is to also create a double page spread for my music magazine. I began by looking into how different double pages spreads are written. In particular, I looked at the language devices used so as to engage the reader. A lot of the devices have been adopted across a number of double page spread. This allows me to note down what are the most conventional language devices to us, which will help to use when it comes to creating my own.

Uncut music magazine from doaael

Kerrang music magazine from doaael

Q music magazine from doaael

Classic rock music magazine from doaael

Research into Bauer Media

For this presentation, I have thoroughly researched into Bauer Media group. 

Bauer media from doaael

Target audience analysis for my four music magazines

Brand Eye for my 4 music magazine

I have conducted these brand eyes because it helps me find out what each magazine represents and how they relate readers, etc. I have touched upon the importance of branding in the preliminary task, and even did a brand eye which allowed me to recognise the different thought and ideas affiliated with magazines. 

Uncut magazine analysis

UNCUT MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

codes and conventions/insinuations

Uncut is a monthly magazine, published by a company known as IPC. This magazine consists of music (mainly Britpop), with an involvement of film and also books. The masthead Uncut suggests the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the their favorite artists and films and read up on articles that they wouldn't get chance to read anywhere else, which suggest a sense of exclusivity with this magazine. 

Kerrang magazine analysis

KERRANG MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

Codes and conventions /insinuations 

Kerrang is a UK based magazine devoted to rock/metal music. It is published by Bauer Media Group, but first was owned by United Newspapers who then sold it to EMAP, then final sold it to Bauer media. It started of as a monthly magazine, then became a weekly magazine in 1987. Kerrang was initially devoted to new wave of British heavy metal and rise of hard rock acts. It is named after the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar. 

Q magazine analysis

Q MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

Q is a music magazine offering exclusive albums reviews, featuring of new releases, film and live concerts reports as well as radio and television reviews. It is a monthly published magazine in the UK, by EMAP media group. At the very start the magazine was outstanding comparing to it's competition due to it's high quality of production of monthly issue. In the early years the magazine was titled 'The Modern Guide to Music and More'. Now, the magazine as well as the EMAP company is owned by the Bauer Media.

Classic Rock magazine analysis

CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

Codes and conventions/institutions 

Classic Rock- is a monthly magazine which provides it's audience with a many information about classic rock and ionic photos. The magazine is seen by people who really into classic rock music.

Classic Rock is a British successful magazine published by Future Publishing. The company has been present since 1985, and is based in the UK, and situated in London on Balcombe Street. This publishing company also publishes ‘Metal Hammer’ and ‘Guitar World’ magazine. Classic Rock mainly focuses on well-known bands from the 1960’s up until the 1990’s, but it also includes reviews and articles on upcoming and present artists. This magazine also creates issues known as tributes, which are dedicated towards artists such as Jimmy Hendrix.It is one of UK’s well selling magazines. Recently, it published its 150th issue and now has a higher circulation than the magazine named NME. The genre of this magazine is rock as you can tell from the masthead being ‘Classic Rock’. This magazine consists of one hundred and forty-eight pages. 80% of the magazine is editorial, leaving the remaining 20% as advertising.

Analysing the differences and similarities between music magazine and other genres

 Here we analysed the similarities and differences of the conventional techniques between music and other genre magazines. Also we looked at which is most commonly to be found in a magazine (green post it note), element that have been used in way that is specific to music magazine (blue post it not) and those elements that have been used in a way that is specific to the genre of music your music magazine is specifically about (pink post it note). I did this so when it comes to creating my own music magazine I will know what type of techniques to use for that specific genre. Allowing my magazine to become much more successful and meets the criteria’s of the magazine. I will also be looking closely on what codes and conventions are used in the magazine. I will be using a glossary that my teacher gave us to help me use the correct terminology while analysing.

Media Institutions

What is a media institution?

A media institution is a company that owns numerous companies in various mass media; i.e. television, radio, publishing, motion picture, and the Internet. Values and ideologies are transmitted through the representations in media texts. Powerful institutions can influence attitudes, interests and believes.

I have recently been doing some research into different, existing media institutions, all of which can be found in the Prezi below:

 

Research and Planning

For the research part of my project, I started by going out and buying some music magazines that I will be able to analyse. These magazines include: Q, Kerrang, Classic Rock, UNCUT, NME, The Word and others. I will be compare the magazine with each other to see the difference and similarities. By conducting primary research into real and existing music magazines, it will enable me to gain inspiration when creating own music magazine.