Q magazine case study

Bauer publishing

Independant magazine publisher

Magazine industry

Textual analysis of double page spreads/feature articles

Original ideas statement

My music magazine is going to be based on an indie music genre. My inspirations for this idea are NME magazine and Q as I read these weekly.  I have also based my magazine on my own music taste as I believe I will be able aim the magazine at what I would like and so it would appeal to others with the same music taste.  I would aim it at 16-25 year olds who listen to indie music, because of the age I am aiming it at I would put the price at an affordable price of around £2.50 as this applies to the demographics of a young age who are working class, I would then make this a monthly magazine to make sure that they can afford it every time, but then I would have to put a lot of information on the cover and more cover lines in order to make it a full months copy. I would use a colour scheme of mainly blues blacks and whites as these can be quite gender neutral and apply to different audiences. I may also use a red similar to how Q and NME use in their masthead, as this attracts the audience to the cover due to the bright colour. My front cover will be mainly quite graphical, as I like the magazines that aren’t conventional; however I will follow a lot of the normal magazine conventions. I would most likely used a band member, but incorporate a graphical scheme into the image, maybe by using a black and white effect, or draw the image and scan in and create it that way. I would like to have my magazine based on music and art as I think that they work well together. I will use an intriguing image, as well as interesting puffs to make the target audience. I want the reader to see the image as aspiration and the puffs as something that makes them want to read the magazine.

Magazine contents page analysis

Magazine font cover analysis

Finished College Magazine Contents Page

Finished College Magazine Cover

Original Image For Preliminary Task

This is my original image i chose this because you can see their body language and facial expression. It also shows they are students as they are holding books walking down the college corridors.

College Magazine Analysis

Questionnaire chart results.

This is the questionnaire results in chart form, this gives me a wider range of ideas that can help me to evaluate and create my college magazine. It allows me to understand my target audience further and to develope my magazine to reach all aspects of the audience. It also shows that there was an equal split between the genders, as i tried to target 50% females and 50% males to get the most even results. I also found that there was mostly 16-17 year olds that completed the survey, whereas 18-19 year olds were lest interested to participate. This could be because they have been at the college longer and so maybe would have already had experiences with bad college magazines. With the content, the most popular was fashion and music reviews. The least popular was gaming reviews. With the prices it varied, as most of the participants said they would pay 50p however when i explained the quality would become worse with the lower price they still chose 50p. This may of been because the most popular release date was weekly, and so the quality would have to be low as it would be expensive to create high quality per week. The most popular magazines that had already been read by the audience were, NME, Company and Kerrang. This shows i would have to vary the content due to the large differences between the audience's preferences. The most popular colour was red and so i will use this predominately throughout the magazine. The two most popular discounted products were clothing and food and so i would include these inside my college magazine. The questionnaire also found out that people would like to see competitions in the magazine. It also shows that people would prefer short text boxes to read instead of long paragraphs of text. With the quality, it was found that they would prefer a lower quality A4 sized magazine to read.