Photo Ideas

Link to my photo ideas

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Mood Board

My Thought Process

Thought Process behind constructing

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Questionnaire & Results

I distributed the questionnaire around, school, social events and through social media which then gained a vast platform of ages, gender, social groups etc. Here are some of the questionnaires I collected:

The overall results I collected from all of the questionnaires are:

• 100% of the results were that people would want to buy a magazine within the "0-5 times a month" category. 
• 8 out of every 10 people would like to see a celebrity on the front cover of their magazine and giving it reasoning for purchasing.
• 75% of people would prefer to see interviews within their Pop Music magazine, the other 25% of people would want to find a glimpse of gossip in their magazine therefore when creating my magazine I am going to combine the two in order to create a perfect combine for the target audience.
• The majority of people would not pay more than £2.00 for a music magazine.
• 90% of the people out of the questionnaires that would actually buy the magazine are within the "11-20 years" category therefore that is what I am going to base as my target demographic. 

From the results I have collected I know to: allow my magazine to be of a weekly subscription, have a celebrity on the front cover, involve an intriguing story/interview with someone attracting star appeal, do not have it priced over £2.00 as not many people would purchase it and set my target audience for young teen/ young adults.   

Deconstruction No. 2

Deconstruction No.1

Examples of Pop Music magazines & Codes and Conventions

Each of these examples present the stereotypical codes and conventions found in a Pop Music magazine, they include:

• Bright colours are a key convention due to the culture of the demographic being stereotypically "happy" and "up beat" therefore having the bright colours to connote this due to their significance with emotion.
• A "posey" key image is often found on a Pop music magazine to then represent the genre and then to generate the aspirational gratification for its audience - both men and women would want elements of the artiste in their own life therefore they are more likely to want to read about them - a selling point for the magazine. 
• Interviews are commonly used in this magazine genre due to the same reason, as the last. Consumers desiring to gain information about the artiste due to their aspirational requests within the person. 
• The magazine is traditionally presented with a glossy front cover in order to gain the status being a classy text. 
• Social media links are used frequently due to the modernisation for the popular genre - the more use of the Internet has resulted in more users of the online edition rather than the hard copy meaning that links are put throughout the magazine to recognise both audiences. 

History of the Pop Industry

Presentation on the history  
^^ The background information is within this presentation, click the link above. 

Main Task

In the next section of the blog I am going to be presenting my 'Main Task' development for a music magazine. It will show my: research, design progress and analysation. 

Hope you enjoy my work,

Lucy Swallow