Magazine Research

Here are the questions I asked and the answers I recieved from the interviews I did with a few people who fit in to my target audience. I have interviewed a number of people who fit in my identified target audience and have questioned them of what articles and stories they like to see in the music magazines they read. This will inspire and influence the decisions I will make when it will come to making my magazine and to create a good product suitable for my target audience and will attract them.


Me: What do you look for when you look/buy a music magazine?
Mark: I look for intresting articles and interveiws about bands and artist like, I also like it
if there is a chance to win something, such as a festival ticket.
Me: What is your favourite genre of music?
Mark: I mostly like eveything, however if i were to choose a particular genre I would choose Indie Folk such as momford and sons.
Me: What colour theme would you like to see on a magazine?
Mark: Red, Blue and Black as they are both suitable for boys and girls.
Me: What do you prefer images or text?
Mark: obvously I like looking at images, however I prefer to read more as get to find out
information and facts about music, bands and charts etc.

Me: What do you look for when you look/buy a music magazine?
Jordyn: I like seeing articles about artist's I like also its a bounus if there are posters inside.
Me: What is your favourite genre of music?
Jordyn: I would say everything from Florence and the Machine to Fall Out Boy.
Me: What colour theme would you like to see on a magazine?
Jordyn: Colours that don't direct at any specific gender such as reds, white and blacks.
Me: What do you prefer images or text?
Jordyn: I prefer to look at images, as I like to see what people are wearing.

Me: What do you look for when you look/buy a music magazine?
Elliot: I like seeing dates for loads of gigs and events, as well as updates of new bands around.
Me: What is your favourite genre of music?
Elliot: Im in to indie rick bands such as the killers, there my favourite.
Me: What colour theme would you like to see on a magazine?
Elliot: Red,black and white, because they are eye catching and simple.
Me: What do you prefer images or text?
Elliot: I like images, however I do like a fair amount of text to read as well.

From my interveiws and answers I have received, I have come to a decision that my colour scheme will involve black,red, blue and white as they are colours which relate to both males and females. Also that I will have images to look at as well as a fair a mount of text to read, and a coverline that says 'Win a ticket for......festival'. I will also definatley include information on bands and artist, like the killers and momford and sons.

Contents Page Inspiration

I looked at THE FLY magazine as it is Britains no.1music monthly magazine and its audience is similar to mine as well as covering similar stories as my magazine would do so. These content pages are from THE FLY magazine I like the way they are simple and have a big main image which takes up most of the page, therefore it makes it more stimulating to look at, Instead of loads of writing and numbers on the page. This is how I will layout my contents page as it is simple and effective and it is fairly unique to the normal convetions of cover pages and others I have looked at.

Double Page Inspiration

I looked at NME magazine because it is one of the most well known music magazines in Britain and it is a similar genre magazone to mine so I was able to look at what stories they cover and how they present and layout their double page spreads, so it will help me consider ways of laying out mine. These images are two double page spreads from NME magazine, I like the continued collour scheme of blue and white throughout the text and imagery, also I like the way they box out diffrent articles from the main text. They are both similar as they both have a main larger image and then partition of the writing, they also have other little extra images on the page to fill up space and make it look more interesting, so I will have to take more images to put on my double page to make it look more presentable and eye stimulating. Also on these double page spreads they have separate columns which have different articles in them so I may think about doing one of them to make it look professional as well as covering more stories to entertain.