Presentation of Creative Ideas

The Assignment Brief

•I have chosen the Print pathway

•To create a front page ,contents and double -page spread of a new music magazine .

Target audience

• I am planning to design a music magazine set at a similar target audience to my college magazine in the preliminary task. Teenagers and young adults. So I research different genre magazines but all set at the same target audience.

Types of Music Magazines

• I am planning to design a music magazine set at a similar target audience to my college magazine in the preliminary task. Teenagers and young adults. so I researched different genre magazines

that are set at the same target audience.My conclusion was

• For Rock Music : Kerrang and Rolling Stone

• For Hip- Hop: Vibe , Source and XXL

• For Bands and mainstream : NME

• For Pop and mainsteam Music : Q

Rock Magazine

Kerrang and Rolling stone • I might base my music magazine on the style of Kerrang because it

has the same target audience to what magazine is going to be. Although this is a heavy metal magazine. Everyone even those which are not interested in heavy metal have heard of Kerrang.This is the size of publicity I hope my magazine would get if it was sold to the public.

• If I choose to do a rock magazine. I am going to copy the style of Rolling Stones magazine. As they focus more on the rock pop music. Otherwise the possibility could be that I focus on making a magazine page that is aimed at a audience there is not a market for.

Urban Music Vibe

• Vibe magazine focuses on urban music,the attraction of making a urban music magazine is that its such a wide genre. So therefore it will appeal to a larger audience than the other genres.

• The downfall of making a urban magazine is because it is such a wide genre.There is not much a big market and a target audience. which will make it harder to market it

Pop Magazine NME and Q

•The attraction of doing a pop magazine is that it is such a wide genre that there is a bigger enough market.

•The downfall is because it has such a big market there is a lot of competitors. Making it harder to make sure that consumers will buy it.

My Decision

• I have decided to do a Pop rock magazine. As their is a market for it. I think it will appeal to a wide audience as it will be Rock music but could attract fans of Pop music as well. It will be a alternative to Kerrang and Rolling Stone .