Planning.

Target audience.
In terms of audiences, magazines tend to have a main target audience. My main target audience is going to be 16-19 year old females who have a general interest in music. The musical genres i will be covering are rock, pop, jazz, drum and bass, blues and folk. The publications included in my magazine will be information about:
New bands, gigs and festivals
Music based competitions
Interveiws with current musicians and new musicians
It will act as a way of advertising new bands as freebie demo tracks can be given away with the magazine.

It will appeal to this perticular target audience: Female 16-19 beauce I have analysed and compleated a questionnaire on what they would want from a music magazine. My results showed that:
Female models on front cover are prefered.
From this I can get an idea of where I would advertise my magazine. My research shows that most females aged 16-19 spend their time:
At college
At the cinema

At a friends house
Shopping

From these ideas I can choose where would be a suitable advertising point. At college and shopping centers seem to be the best places to advertise as they hold large groups of people at a time.
Now I know my conventions I can use them to start drafting my own magazine. I will start by mind mapping my ideas for a name for my magazine.

From my ideas I have chosen Venus as my name for my magazine. This relates to my genre as there is a saying 'Women are from Venus' and my magazine is aimed and designed specifically for women. This can also give me an oppotunity in the future if i want to expand to a male audience i can call it Mars, because 'Men are from Mars'. Also to make my masthead even better I am going to add Music From - in front of the work Venus. Music From Venus.

Research continued/ Questionnaire/ Conventions

After analysing both magazines of the same genre and other general music magazines I can now make some connections between conventions of music magazines.
Front pages of music magazines have:
catchy mastheads which are music related e.g Music-zine.
a photo/image related to music in some way e.g. band photo.
plugs which draw the readers in by giving away information from within the magazine.
headlines explain what the main story is about and relate to the main photo.
subheadings describe what else is in the magazine.
Contents pages of music magazines have:
an image(s) of bands or other features who appear as stories in the magazine.
a letter from the editor.

"ONE WAY".

One way music magazine is a source for adult eclectic music from Rock, Jazz, Singer-Songwriter, World, Blues, to Folk, Roots, and Ambient. Also find music gear, musical instruments, recording gear, music software, audio equipment, books, music accessories and more. ONE WAY has everything for the music enthusiast.

There are only a few musical genres that arent represented including Metal, R'n'B, Pop and classical. If the magazine represented all genres it would hava too much to cover.

"Music-Zine"

Music-Zine, represents a wide variety of music genres, therefore reaching out to a wider target audience.

I know that the conventions of a font page of a music magazine are the masthead, photo;s of musicians/bands, headings, sub headings and plugs. This can be backed up by this magazine music-zine. The masthead on evey music-zine mag is in the same position using the same font but in a different colour, in this occasion. The colour red is then reflected in the plug, win stuff!

The other colous used on this page are red, black, and yellow. Red and black are contrasting colours and we accociate them with rock music as black represents darkness, death etc. Red represents blood, love etc. The other colour yellow adds a contrast and balances out the page.

It will be important to choose the correct colours for my front cover.