Weekly review

This week i have completed my textual analysises. I used three different types of music magazines all aimed at different target audiences so i could indentify which features are similar and how they appeal to these readers. For 'Kerrang!' i analysed the front cover, contents page, and double page spread. Although this magazine doesn't appeal to me, it is focused at it's specific market of rock lovers.

I also did an analysis of 'Mixmag' front cover and contents page and found that it uses a lot less pictures than Kerrang but to it's advantage as it doesn't cram up the page too much and makes the main pictures have more of an effect.

'Top of the pops' is aimed at a younger audience than what i am thinking of using for my music magazine, but it was helpful to see how the layout and colour scheme worked.

As well as my textual analysises i have completed an audience questionnaire to find out what type of thing people look for in a magazine. Hopefully i will get lots of feedback and this will help me determine what target audience to aim my magazine at and know what people are looking for.

I used pollcode.com and developed a poll to find out what genre of music is most popular to people of my age. This works with the questionnaire to help my research to find out what target audience i am going to use.

Next week i will choose my target audience and start thinking of some photo shoot ideas and do some more research into the genre of magazine i am going for.